When inserting records into Storage Tables in Azure the base columns are PartitionKey, RowKey and TimeStamp. To ensure the other properties of your entity is also created in the storage you HAVE to define them as properties (with a GET and SET), otherwise it will not be created e.g.: This will [...]
Azure VMs and connectivity brings some interesting challenges to the fore. I have a scenario where I created 4 new VMs (3 x app and 1 x sql). The App servers are bare bone so did not have any SQL client tools. I found the method below the easiest way [...]
We recently updated our AD configuration to include a 2-way trust with a number of other AD domains. Since the change our People Picker has been extremely slow (up to 3 minutes) and often timing out. Using the address book function was fine as a workaround but as soon as [...]
When you install SharePoint 2013 there is no option to change the default search index location (like the ULS log folder). If (like us) you keep your default c drive small and only allocated for installations it can cause some issues with size as the search index grows. Unfortunately there [...]
