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People Picker does not work when ActiveX Filtering is enabled in Internet...
Last week we had a strange issue with one of the users. She used a simple SharePoint application that includes a People Picker control to enable users to assign items to other employees. A pre-defined...
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How to find out the real number of Queue Jobs
Recently we had an issue with Project Server. Although the Microsoft Project Server Queue Service was running, the items in the queue has not been processed, and the performance of the system degraded...
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Automating the Provisioning of a PWA-Instance
When testing our custom Project Server 2013 solutions in the development system, or deploying them to the test system I found it useful to be able to use a clean environment (new PWA instance having an...
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Strange Access Denied Error in Project Server Client OM
Recently I worked with the Managed Client Object Model of Project Server 2013. Although being Farm Administrator, Site Collection Administrator (Site Owner) of every site collections and member of the...
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How to Read the Values of Fields bound to Lookup Tables via the Client Object...
Assume you have an Enterprise Custom Field (let’s call this ECF ‘ResField’) defined for project resources, that is bound to a Lookup Table. How can we read the textural values of the field as it is...
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How to Read the Values of Fields bound to Lookup Tables via REST
In my recent post I’ve illustrated how to read the values of Enterprise Custom Fields (ECT) that are bound to Lookup Tables. I suggest you to read that post first, as it can help you to better...
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Strange Localization Issue When Working with List and Site Templates
One of our clients runs a localized version of SharePoint 2013. The operating system is a Windows 2012 R2 Server (English), the SharePoint Server itself is English as well. The German language pack is...
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May Merge-SPLogFile Flood the Content Database of the Central Administration...
In the recent weeks we searched for the cause of a specific error in one of our SharePoint 2013 farms. To get detailed trace information, we switched the log level often to the VerboseEx mode. A few...
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Make the Status Bar Visible on Project Detail Pages for Users with Read-Only...
Assume the following situation: You have a Project Web Access site (PWA) on your Project Server that has the SharePoint Server Publishing feature activated both on the site collection and on the site...
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Automating Project Server development tasks via PowerShell and the Client...
I start with a note this time: Even though you were not interested in Project Server itself at all, I suggest you to read the post further, while most of the issues discussed below are not Project...
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Automating the Deployment of a Customized Project Web Site Template via...
Assume, you have created a customized web site template for your enterprise project type in the development environment as described here, and now you would like to deploy it into the test farm. Of...
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Breaking Changes in Project Server Update?
Recently I have extended the Visual Studio solution, that includes the code sample for a former blog post, illustrating how to register Project Server event handlers via the managed client object...
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How to Read Project Properties that are not Available in the Client Object...
Recently I had a development task that at the first sight seemed to be trivial, but it turned out quickly to be rather a challenge. I had to display some basic project information on a page in our...
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How to avoid ‘The request uses too many resources’ when using the client...
One of the reasons, I prefer the client object model of SharePoint to the REST interface, is its capability of batching requests. For example, you can add multiple users to a SharePoint group using the...
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How to restrict the available users in a ‘Person or Group’ field to Project...
Assume you have a task list in your Project Web Access (PWA) site or on one of the Project Web Sites (PWS) in your Project Server and you would like to restrict the users available in the Assigned To...
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Creating a PowerShell-based Monitoring and Alerting System for Project Server
A few months ago I published a post about how to find the jobs in the Project Server queue programmatically. In the current post I will show you, how can you use PowerShell to track the number of jobs...
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Create Project Server Enterprise Custom Fields via PSI from PowerShell
Last year I already wrote about how one can manage the Project Server Enterprise Custom Fields via the Managed Client Object Modell. We could transfer the code samples of that post from C# to...
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Managing Project Server Views via PSI from PowerShell
If you would like to manage Project Server views from code you will find very few helpful resources (if any) on the web. The object models simply do not include classes related to this (neither on the...
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Tasks regarding to MySites Migration and Automating them via PowerShell
Recently we have performed a domain migration for a customer, where we had to migrate the MySites of the users as well. In this blog post I share the relevant PowerShell scripts we used to support the...
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PowerShell Scripts around the SID
If you ever migrated SharePoint users you should be familiar either with the Move-SPUser cmdlet or its predecessor, the migrateuser stsadm operation: $sourceURL = "http://mysites.company.com"...
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