Organizational Browser Start Account

If you would like to create an Organizational Browser page that shows an entire organization or that starts with any user other than the one currently logged in you can do so with a Script Editor web part.  First, create a page, add the organizational browser web part and a script editor web part.  The choose the appropriate source below for your script editor and replace the DOMAIN and SAMACCOUNTNAME/USERPRINCIPALNAME and SHAREPOINT_URL_INCLUDING_SITE

Exposing Term set in a site collection to another site collection

Requirement:

Exposing Term store created in one site collection to another site collection.

Note:

Generally this use case doesn’t come that often since creating term store at the CA level inside the CT Hub will expose them to all web applications. 

Showing Refiner Counts In SharePoint 2013\O365 Search

Requirement:

Showing counts for each refiner

By default, search refiners in SharePoint 2013 don’t show a result count.  But in O365 they show up.

Note: o365

SharePoint Search Refiners – Multi select

Requirement:

I had to fulfill a requirement wherein my client wanted Multi select refinement items in the search results page.

By default SharePoint has single selection enabled like below:

SharePoint installation error – Step 8. The SDDL string contains an invalid sid

ERROR: THE SDDL STRING CONTAINS AN INVALID SID.

I was setting up SP 2013 as a standalone server inside a VMWare for my development purposes. (I did this previously inside virtualBox and encountered same error & had it resolved but didn’t document it).

Adding Custom Refiners to OOB Search page

Search

Who ever have used SharePoint OOB search might have observed a refinement panel on the left side where by default SP will list out possible list of FILTERS based on the content it has crawled. Like File Type refiner, User refiner, Time stamp refiner & so on….

Combine People results with regular search results

In my previous posts you might have seen that we generally use PEOPLE link in the Search Navigation web part to display all the people results.

By default the EVERYTHING link only displays Links & documents.