Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Sharepoint 2013 My Site Governance Model

·       My Site Governance
In this Article we will focus following things in detail for My Site Governance in SharePoint 2013/2016 on premise.
·         Vision & Goal
·         My Site Governance
·         Conclusion
·         Recommendation
·         Best Practices
·         Configuration & Administration and Maintenance Plan
·         My Site Creation Process

·       Vision & Goals
§  Define clear vision for my sites
The My Site provides an environment where, employees will be able to collaborate and share documents, tasks, people information, calendars and other information
§  Define clear Goal for my sites
·         My Site Primary Goal
o   Easy Document Sharing
o   Connect employees
·         My Site Secondary Goal
o   More engagement
o   Improve Communication
§  What My Site Will do and not do
·         Have a list of features what my site has
o   News Feed
o   My Documents
o   My Tasks
o   Blogs
o   About Me
o   One Drive
·         Have a list of features what my site will not have
o   Digital Asset library
o   Public Sharing documents

·       My Site Governance Model
o   Public View content should not have any confidential or private data
o   Content pertaining to human resources or legal is typically not listed in my Sites
o   No personal health information should ever be present
o   Personally identifiable financial information should ever be present
o   My site deletion or moving my sites policy need to be defined.
o   Private site must not contain personal audio files, inappropriate pictures, or other materials not allowed within the organization.
o   All discussions or blogging done within a My Site must follow company policies
o   All discussions or blogging contain sensitive company material or defamatory comments about any person are not allowed
o   Before my site launch define enterprise social policy and rollout
·       Conclusion
The My Site provides an environment where, employees will be able to collaborate and share documents, tasks, people information, calendars and other information.
·       Recommendation for Basic My Site Features
o   News Feed
§  Newsfeed is the user’s social hub where he or she can see updates from the people, documents, sites, and tags that the user is following.
o   My Documents
§  Provides a single place for users to create, share, collaborate and follow important documents.
o   My Tasks
§  Displays tasks assigned to the user. This is only visible to the owner of the My Site page.
o   Blogs
§  Blog is a Web Part page that the My Site owner can use to publish a blog.
o   About Me
§  The About me is the default page that displays when a user accesses another user’s My Site. This page displays the user’s profile page to other people in the organization.
o   One Drive
§  The OneDrive tab links to the user’s OneDrive for Business. OneDrive for Business is the user’s personal file storage and synchronization service for business use.
o   Org Chart
§  Loading peer, manager and direct report in a graphical manner.
·       My Site Best Practices
o   Design Level
§  Pilot My Sites within 1 or 2 departments and test these strategies.
§  Plan Policies and Privacy
§  Plan Users and Permissions
§  Plan integration of Service Applications (Search, Metadata Management Service, etc.)
§  Plan Jobs and Schedules
§  Plan Multilingual
§  Plan Capacity Planning (Storage Level)
§  Plan to have integration with Cloud
o   Configuration Level
§  Isolate My Sites in a dedicated Web application
§  Use dedicated content databases for My Sites
§  Configure storage quotas for My Sites (100 MB)
§  Provisioning of individual site collections
·       My Site Configuration, Administration, and Maintenance
o   Configuration
§  My Site Configuration
§  Profile Configuration
§  Search Integration
§  Metadata Integration
§  Configure Jobs
o   Administration
§  Managing My Sites
§  Deletion of My Sites
§  Monitor Database
§  Monitor sites
§  Monitor Jobs
§  Regularly auditing your SharePoint environment
o   Maintenance
§  Site Quota
§  Manage Users
§  Manage Content DB
§  Identifying and reporting governance violations
§  Analyzing and reporting upon My Site usage and activity
§  Moving/copying My sites
·       My Site Creation Process
o   User Action
§  Click on OneDrive Pop-up “Site being created” Is displayed.
§   
o   SP Queue
§  User request is  Queued
o   SP Process
§  Item picked from queue Standard SP site created Mail is send to user
o   User Action
§  User accesses the site  first time Customization are getting applied
o   Apply My Site Template
§  Company customized My Site  is created

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

SharePoint folders with custom metadata

you need to create new Content Type using Folder content type. you can add custom site columns and appy to the document library or image library.
Please find the below steps
  1. Go to Site Actions, Site Settings 
  2. Click Site Content Types 
  3. Click Create
  4. Give the new content type a name such as "HLD" or "Develop"
  5. Set the parent content type group as Folder Content Types
  6. Set the parent content type to Folder
  7. Add the new content type to a Group and put it back in the "Folder Content Types" group
  8. Click OK
  9. Scroll down to the columns section and click Add from new site column
  10. Name the column and set all the usual column options
  11. Repeat for any additional columns (Release Date, etc)
  12. Click OK
  13. Go to your document library
  14. Click Settings and Library Settings, or in 2010 click the Library ribbon tab and then click Library Settings
  15. Click Advanced and set Allow management of content types to Yes and click OK (this may already selected)
  16. Scroll down to Content Types and click Add from existing site content types and add your new folder content type
  17. Go to your document library and click the New dropdown, or the New button in the 2013 Document ribbon, and add your new folder also
  18. Go to the View dropdown and click Modify this view and add your new folder meta data columns.

SharePoint 2013 Environment Optimization (Dev Box)

  • Set the search service performance to REDUCED
  • Set the AppFabric cache to a maximum of 300MB
  • Set the search NodeRunner.exe to a maximum of 50MB
  • Set all user databases to SIMPLE recovery mode
  • Set SQL maximum server memory to 2.5GB

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Sharepoint Survey Hide response from the end user

Add the survey list to the web part pages as the ListView web part
Modify the Webpart  Settings.
Web part settings Edit –> Modify Shared Web Part
Under the Selected View —> Change the View to “Summary View”
Then provide the contributor-level permissions to the users, who want to participate in the survey
Now it won’t show the option for Graphical Responses for everyone it will just show the total number of responses.
If you want to get back old-view, just flip the view back to “Overview”
However the user could still click the title of the Survey & get access to the survey results that way, so to prevent this you need to edit your survey webpart & make the following changes to the settings –
View – Summary View (this should already be done from the steps above)
Toolbar Type – Summary Toolbar
Chrome Type – None
Now users can vote & see the total number of votes overall but cannot see the number of responses for each answer.

Monday, January 28, 2013

InfoPath cannot save the following form error message when you try to publish an InfoPath form on a SharePoint Server 2013 server

InfoPath cannot save the following form" error message when you try to publish an InfoPath form on a SharePoint Server 2013 server

This issue occurs because the Desktop Experience feature is not enabled on the Windows Server 2008 R2 server. Therefore, connections cannot be made from the Windows Server 2008 R2 server to the SharePoint server.

Reference : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2752612

Thursday, December 27, 2012

SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure activate error in sharepoint 2013 Resolution

if you activate publishing feature using Site settings it wont work. you will get following error

"SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure activate error in SharePoint 2013"

to resolve this you need to use PowerShell Scripts to Activate to the Site Collection and Site level.

Activate Site Collection Level
PS C:\Windows\system32> Enable-SPFeature -Identity PublishingSite -URL http://sitename/ -Force
Activate Site Level
PS C:\Windows\system32> Enable-SPFeature -Identity PublishingWeb -URL http://sitename -Force