Monthly Archives: January 2014

Open list item attachments with a click on the paperclip

UPDATE February 13th, 2014: An even newer version is now available which you can check out here.

Another requirement of one of my users is to open file attachments directly by clicking on the paperclip icon without the detour of opening the item first. Alexander Bautz from spjsblog.com wrote the perfect script for this purpose which you can find here on his blog post. Thanks for that!

However, the last update was from mid 2012 and therefore the latest version is not compatible with SharePoint 2013. I made some minor adjustments to the code to restore the compatibility and I added a fade-in and fade-out animation, as well.

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Fix the AppFabric Caching Service after renaming the Server

Today I made a mistake and renamed a server without removing it from the AppFabric cache cluster. This caused some trouble getting the cache service back to a running and healthy state as well as some ugly error messages in the ULS, such as:

Unexpected Exception in SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper::InitializeDataCacheFactory for usage 'DistributedLogonTokenCache' - Exception 'Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCacheException: ErrorCode:SubStatus:There is a temporary failure. Please retry later. (One or more specified cache servers are unavailable, which could be caused by busy network or servers. For on-premises cache clusters, also verify the following conditions. Ensure that security permission has been granted for this client account, and check that the AppFabric Caching Service is allowed through the firewall on all cache hosts. Also the MaxBufferSize on the server must be greater than or equal to the serialized object size sent from the client.). Additional Information : The client was trying to communicate with the server : net.tcp://old_server_name:22233    
  at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCache.ThrowException(ResponseBody respBody, RequestBody reqBody)    
  at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCacheFactory.GetCacheProperties(RequestBody request, IClientChannel channel)    
  at Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCacheFactory.GetCache(String cacheName)    
  at Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper.InitializeDataCacheFactory()'.

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Sharepoint 2013 Site Users Web Part Presence Indicator fixed

For a few months now we were waiting for Microsoft to fix the presence indicators in the site users web part. With the December 2013 CU they were finally able to fix it. Before the update the presence indicators of the site users web part looked like that:

And after the Update they look like this:

That’s better Microsoft, thanks, finally..!

If you haven’t installed it yet, jump to this post with the direct links to the download of the December 2013 CU.

SharePoint ’13 December 2013 Cumulative Update released

Microsoft has released the December 2013 cumulative update for SharePoint 2013. Don’t forget to install the March 2013 Public Update  – if it is not installed yet – before you install any later cumulative update.

Here are the Downloads:

March 2013 PU for SharePoint Foundation:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36987

March 2013 PU for SharePoint Server:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36989

December 2013 CU for SharePoint Foundation:
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=2850024

December 2013 CU for SharePoint Server:
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=2849961