SharePoint slow ness and prompting for the Credentials Issue

SharePoint slowness and prompting for the Credentials Issue

Issue:

SharePoint slowness and prompting for the Credentials Issue intermittently.

Resolution:

Semaphore Holders default max value has to changed from 2 to 10 or 2 to 6.

MAXAPI valu changed from 2 to 10.

This resolved the slowness of SharePoint sites.

Search the data only specific to a Library or List in SharePoint 2010

Search the data only specific to a Library or List in SharePoint 2010

Steps:

Create a search scope for the List or library 

Create a separate Display Group

Add the Search Scope to the newly created  Displaygroup

In the Search Box web Part Properties, Choose the the dropdown mode from Scopes Drop down as 

 "Show,do not include contextual scopes "

From Miscellaneous drill down option, enter the Scope Display group " Newly created Display groupName"

That's it. Now you are able to search the data only from the specific Library / List.

Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has "Full Read" permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled.

Issue:

Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has "Full Read" permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled.


Resolution:


1. Load regedit.exe
2. Navigate to the following key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa”
3. Right click on “Lsa” and create a new 32bit DWORD value
4. Naame it as “DisableLoopbackCheck”
5. Set the value to “DisableLoopbackCheck” as “1”
6. Close the registry editor.
7. Start a new crawl.



 

Redirect from one page to another Page in SharePoint 2010

Redirect from one page to another Page in SharePoint 2010

Today I got a new request from the client for the Page redirection in SharePoint.
This will be possible with adding a content Editor WebPart with the following JavaScript.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://server/sites/default.aspx">

Updating SMTP outgoing email settings to specific Web Application in SharePoint 2010

Updating SMTP outgoing email settings to specific Web Application in SharePoint 2010:
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 By default , we will configure the new SMTP Server details at 

Central Administration : Outgoing E-Mail Settings .




But some times, the new SMTP server details may not reflect in all the web applications.

At that time I faced email sending issues from one particular web application.

For this , we need to manually go and verify all the web application settings from Central Admin Page as mentioned below:





with this , we can verify the new SMTP server configured for all the web applications in the FARM.