SharePoint 2013 'Page not found (404)' with catalog item page and standard page

If you read these blog post: SharePoint 2010 ‘Page not found (404)’ page the way it should be and this Inconvenient Catalog Item Page and ‘Page not found’ (404) experience from the master Waldek Mastykarz , and you're here, you're one step closer to the solution. This blog post extends the Mastykartz strategy with just few lines of code.  Let's...

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Publishing by search: what about video in HTML field?

I think the title it's someway self-explaing: we know that when you add a video to a HTML field, SharePoint doesn't use HTML5 video tag, but it installs a web part which show the video itself using a player. A video, in SharePoint, it's not simply a file, but a folder which...

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Strategy: catalog connection with managed metadata multivalue field

Everybody knows about SharePoint catalog connection... maybe What if you have a pre-existing catalog connection and your customer asks you to switch from a single value field (generally ItemCategory) to a multivalue field? In a ideal world you should quote this and say "don't...

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Deleting a host named site collection... for real

A simple problem: you have to delete a host named site collection in order to recreate it. When you try to recreate it, you get an error: SharePoint says the site collection already exists... if you restart the machine you'll be able to recreate it. What if you cannot restart...

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Onion Pi: Set up as a Wifi-to-Wifi Tor middlebox

Some weeks ago i bought a Raspberry Pi 2 in order to replace my old Raspberry Pi as media center... So i had some free time and unused spare wifi connectors and i decided to create a tor access point using this guides. https://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overview   https://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-wifi-access-point/overview This...

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SharePoint 2013 Azure farm accessible from outside part 2: what about friendly URLs

Have you read this? SharePoint 2013 Azure farm accessible from outside I discovered it doesn't work for friendly urls, it shows hyperlinks targeting site collection, so it's not possible to reach other pages. Moreover you'll get this error if you only create a outbuond rule for URL rewriting because of the gzip compression. Outbound rewrite rules...

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Targeting contents using XRANK in SP2013 problem

Lately i had to create a content priority/targeting system in SharePoint 2013, using search capabilities in a public context (so no target audience available). What you'll find below it's a targeting system based on managed metadata content tagging and dinamically generated queries using XRANK directives. Let's think about a enterprise model with a...

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SharePoint 2013 Azure farm accessible from outside

I gave you the possibility to create a SharePoint 2013 farm from scratch with ASPM... don't you know what it is? You can download it here So, let's assume you have a site collection (http://sitecollection.example.cloud) on this SharePoint 2013 farm e you want to make it accessible...

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Updating term set in SP2013

First of all, this is not something i discovered on my own, i just read it somewhere in the web and I never found the original post again, maybe because it was written in german (credits to the original author), so I decided to write this useful trick in english in order to help more people to accomplish the same task: updating a termset from code...

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Azure SPFarm Manager 1.2 released

Since they changed something, i had to change something. Here's the new verion, what's new? Nothing, simply MS changed something about image names and i have to readapt the Build script. Now it works like a charm. The old config.xml will not work anymore (only if you wanna BUILD another farm). ImageFamily attribute was deprecated and now you have to...

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