Community Site Template not available when creating a subsite

Published at October 22, 2013 ·  1 min read

The Community Site is a new template in SharePoint 2013 that allows us manage discussions and Q&A contents in a comfortable way. Unfortunately this template is not available for creation as a subsite (in the browser) of a Publishing Site – even if you add it to “Page Layouts and site templates”: Add subsite shows the following (I added “Team Site” just to make sure that the “Collaboration” tab is showing up):...

“Sideloading of apps is not enabled on this site” when deploying an app from Visual Studio 2012 to a host-named site collection in SharePoint 2013

Published at March 31, 2013 ·  1 min read

This error message occurs when you are using Visual Studio 2012 to deploy an app to a SharePoint 2013 under the following circumstances The site you are using is a host-named site collection that is not the root site collection for the web application AND the site is not a developer site To avoid this error message, you can either deploy to the root site collection of the web application (and not the host-named site collection) – which is not a valid choice sometimes...

'Database is in compatibility range and upgrade is recommended' for BDCServiceDatabase after March 2013 Upgrade

Published at March 14, 2013 ·  1 min read

After applying the March 2013 Update for SharePoint 2013 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36989), the BDC Databases in your farm might be in a state where they need upgrade. You can review the current database status in Central Admin | Upgrade & Migration | Review database status. This state is ok, as long as it doesn’t last too long. But at one day you need to upgrade the Database. The upgrade is no problem for SPContentDatabases, just use Upgrade-SPContentDatabase....

SharePoint 2013 March Public Update released

Published at March 13, 2013 ·  1 min read

Microsoft released the March Public Update for SharePoint 2013 that is a prerequisite for all further updates: It can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36989 It is supposed to correct the problem with apps and non-default-zone addresses, and many others… Markus...

Extract .wsp files from SharePoint Config Database

Published at January 14, 2013 ·  2 min read

I recently had a customer with the need to extract a .wsp (SharePoint Solution) File from the SharePoint Farm Solutions because the source file disappeared mysteriously… As SharePoint loads the .wsp file into the config database (SharePoint_Config in most SharePoint environments – although it should be a name that you can recognize easily – you don’t name you files dok1, dok2, etc.) and stores it as binary content, it is not too hard to extract....