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“Upgrade Available” status in Central Administration of new SharePoint farm

This month I build an entirely new large SharePoint 2016 farm. In order to streamline the installation and receive last patches, I slipstreamed the SharePoint installer with the latest KB4011680 (February 13,2018 CU) (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4011680) . If you are not aware about slipstreaming SharePoint installation, basically you are extracting all SharePoint’s patches to Updates folder of the installer. In order to do that, you must extract the SharePoint installation distribution file (ISO/IMG) to local folder.

Improvement for Project Server 2016 in SharePoint update February 2018

This months, Microsoft release KB4011680 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4011680).  This updates bring some improvement for Project Server 2016 that has been long waiting for me. Previously, in my Project Server 2016 instance I can not export Capacity Planning view to excel, this update fixes the issue. Issue (before this update) Login to Project Web App site instance Click Resource Center view, select resource Open Resource tab in the ribbon, click Capacity Planning In this Capacity Planning view, there is no export to excel The update bring up Export to Excel button.

Broken link to shared folder or document is fixed in SharePoint January 2018 Update

I have encounter this issue last two months, where our client reported that they link sent by SharePoint is not accessible. We have spent many hours until we advise to the client to avoid white space in the filename or folder. Fortunately, the client could accept our explanation that there might be limitation to the SharePoint just as we see limitation in URL format. This month, Microsoft releases KB4011642 (January 2018 patches) - https://support.

January 2018 SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 Update

There are to 2 KB released in January 2018: SharePoint Server 2016 KB 4011642 SharePoint Server 2016 MUI/language patch KB 4011645 KB 4011642: Security updates to resolve vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if user open a specially crafted Office file. Improvement and fixes for nonsecurity issue in SharePoint Server 2016 Improvement and fixes for nonsecurity issues in Project Server 2016 KB 4011645:

SPO - Troubleshooting contributor can not open OneNote from desktop app

Background User have been assigned only Contribute access to a Notebook in SharePoint, but user should not have access to the site. Symptom User can open the Notebook from Web Application, and start contributing User can not open the Notebook from OneNote desktop app with error “We couldn’t find a notebook at https://… A notebook usually has a table of contents file (*.onennotc or *.onennotc2)“  User can not see the files in Document Library (of the Notebook) via Windows Explorer Resolution

Serving Images from Cloudinary CDN free plan

junaidbhura - Mar 2, 2018 Hey there! I’m the author of the Auto Cloudinary plugin. I’d just like to say that the configuration guide is not obsolete, it just uses a different technique than this post. I’ve added a comment on your rating here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-update-instruction/ webinetics - Mar 6, 2018 I’d like to see some of the missing images of this article.

Serving Images from Cloudinary CDN free plan

I am quite happy with the performance improvement to my WordPress hosting in Azure. After I put all the measure for performance improvement Change default application settings Create .user.ini to override php.ini settings Use AutoOptimize plugin (and web cache) Use CDN as reverse proxy cache Read my previous blog here - blog.libinuko.com/2017/11/23/troubleshooting-wordpress-multisite-hosting-in-azure/. I analyse from the report that actually there are room for improvement in the image processing.

Cost Optimization for On-Demand Private Build Server for SharePoint (part-5)

This is 5 part blog series, on how to “Cost Optimization for On-demand Private Build Server for SharePoint”. Although I specifically write this for SharePoint’s build server, however the concept and ideas is also applicable for anyone looking for optimizing their cost running private CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) in Visual Studio online. The series in these articles are: Part 1, Introduction to Visual Studio Online Build and Release Agent Part 2, Cost Analysis and Optimizing Cost Part 3, Step-by-Step Creation Private Build Server for SharePoint Part 4, Azure Automation Service Part 5, Integrates Azure Automation Service in Build Pipeline In Part 4 In Part 4, we are able to schedule the private build server start-up and shutdown time.

Troubleshooting WordPress Multisite Hosting in Azure

Hosting single site WordPress in Azure is straight forward. With few clicks in Azure portal, your blog will be up and running easily. While moving my blog to Azure I face issues but managed to resolve it. So let see the issues: The issues Slowness This is one of the most nightmare that every blogger tried to avoid, the slowness. The default settings provided by the template doesn’t provide optimum performance.

Cost Optimization for On-Demand Private Build Server for SharePoint (part-4)

This is 5 part blog series, on how to “Cost Optimization for On-demand Private Build Server for SharePoint”. Although I specifically write this for SharePoint’s build server, however the concept and ideas is also applicable for anyone looking for optimizing their cost running private CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) in Visual Studio online. The series in these articles are: Part 1, Introduction to Visual Studio Online Build and Release Agent Part 2, Cost Analysis and Optimizing Cost Part 3, Step-by-Step Creation Private Build Server for SharePoint Part 4, Azure Automation Service Part 5, Integrates Azure Automation Service in Build Pipeline In Part 3 In Part 3, we have prepared private build server in Azure using B2S VM size.