Brief Summary of Top Announcements in Microsoft Inspire 2019

1.           Microsoft Teams :- more AI and collaborative capabilities enriched in Teams to connect the front-line worker to the boardroom.

2.           Azure Cloud Migrations:- new tools and technologies to shift customer workloads to Azure. Azure Migration Program (AMP) is introduced.

3.           Azure Lighthouse :-automate the “multi-customer, multi-tenant management at scale in a secure environment.”

4.           Investments in Security and Compliance:security and data privacy are the number one priority for its partner growth.

5.           Technical Innovative Priorities:- company will work on empowering the lead developers through GitHub and Power Platform. He further spoke about the arrival of a new version of HoloLens in the market.

6.           Five new specializations are available: Windows Server and SQL Server Migration to Microsoft Azure, Linux and Open Source Databases Migration to Microsoft Azure, Data Warehouse Migration to Microsoft Azure, Modernization of Web Applications in Microsoft Azure, and Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure

SharePoint Anonymous Portal – Users not able to download Excel files

Recently one of our team mate faced challenge in an anonymous SharePoint site, where we could successfully view/download all files except Excel Formats (.xls, .xlsx). We were not using Office web app.

 

Issue

While trying to open the file user sees the message "Operation in Progress", and then receive
"Excel Web Access  An error has occurred."

Or

"Access Denied"

 

Reason and resolution

 

We have resolved the issue by executing the following PowerShell commands so that it gives anonymous "OpenItems" permission rights to certain files that could potentially contain sensitive info with the following command:

·         $siteUrl = "http://yoursite";

·         $site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteurl);

·         $web = $site.OpenWeb();

·          

·         $enumPerms = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPBasePermissions];

·          

·         Write-Host $web.AnonymousPermMask64;

·         $web.AnonymousPermMask64 = $web.AnonymousPermMask64 -bor $enumPerms::OpenItems

·         $web.Update();

·         Write-Host $web.AnonymousPermMask64;

·          

·         $web.Dispose();

$site.Dispose();

 For more details please refer

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2498047

SharePoint 2013 based multi device offline application leveraging html 5

SharePoint based multi device offline application leveraging html 5 offline capabilities

Scenario

Develop an offline ipad app which needs to work on desktop as well in offline mode.

Approach

After considering the different technical options the recommended one I believe is to leverage SharePoint platform in combination with html5 offline capability and Rest API .

JavaScript Object Model and REST API can be used as part of CSOM.  Html 5, CSS,Backbone,  and JQuery  can be used as part of client side technology

Enabling Anonymous SharePoint 2013 Rest API Calls

By default Rest APi calls fails if the SharePoint portal is configured for anonymous access.

This is due to the fact that the ViewFormPagesLockDown Feature (Site Collection) in SharePoint 2013 is activated and visible by default. This was not the case with previous versions of SharePoint.

Following settings needs to be done to overcome this issue

Please navigate to Site collection settings and deactivate the feature "Limited Access user permission lockdown mode"

Assumption:- Already anonymous access has been configured at central admin level and other required libraries as and where required.

Migrating SharePoint sites from O365 to On Premise -Learning's

Migrating contents from On Premise SharePoint to cloud is comparatively easy, however if you have the other scenario then things wont go smooth.

 

Following are the issues we faced while migrating from O365 to SharePoint On Premise

• The Site template was not worked at all for restoring the site.
• The List templates are also not working for restoring lists one by one.
• “MetaVis” - Migration tool supports O 365 to ONprimise migration, however its trial version didn’t support.
• So we end up in migrating manually as leveraging thirs party products was not a feasible option for us.
• Also we faced several challenges while re-creating workflows associated with the lists.

 

Special thanks to my colleague Vishnu PS who helped me consolidating this information

Office Web Apps with SharePoint 2013 Issue

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Scenario
we have configured a sharepoint 2013 server and a Office web app in Azure environment.

Office documents preview was working fine and stopped working all of a sudden. We ahve realized that after restarting the Office webapp server, we started getting the above mentioned error.

While looking into the DNS of the OWA server identifeid that the entry was missing. we have addedthe entry how ever still the owa preview was not working.
we have removed binding and added binding again. Nothing helped.
Finally just reinstalled office webapps in the same server. everything started working again. This time we havent even removed and added the binding, however it worked.

Hope this helps some one... Good Luck

Pubishing infrastructure Feature Comparison Sharepoint 2013 vs Sharepoint 2010

	Publishing features in SharePoint 2010	Publishing features in SharePoint 2013
1	publishing site templates like  Publishing Site,Publishing Site with Workflow,Enterprise Wiki will be available only with Publishing sites	same as 2010
2	top link bar is replaced with the global navigation menu	same as 2010
3	Content deployment	same as 2010
4	Default settings for the global navigation menu and the Quick Launch menu are specified.	same as 2010
5	Additional files and folders are added to the Master Page Gallery library	same as 2010
6	Content and Structure Reports	same as 2010
7	Following libraries are additionally added(Design Manager,Reusable Content,Site Collection Documents ,Site Collection Images)	same as 2010
8	Additional webparts are available (Content Query Web Part,Media Web Part,Summary Links Web Part, Table Of Contents Web Part)	same as 2010
9	Additional timer jobs gets added to the site.	same as 2010
10	Regional settings	same as 2010
11	Variations	same as 2010
12	Object and Output Cashing	same as 2010
13		Cross Site Publishing
14		Device Channel
15		Design Manager