When tried to refresh in BizTalk admin console, keeps complaining schema referenced map has been deleted, The local, cached version of the BizTalk Server group configuration is out of date. You must refresh the BizTalk Server group configuration before making further changes

Due to some schema namespace change, and don't want to re-do the maps, so I openned the map in XML edit mode and updated the namespace. Then when I tried to deploy the solution, It failed.
And I am getting the error as the title indicated.

There are some missing or isloated maps data in the database to be cleaned.
In the BizTalkMgmtDb database, look up the bt_mapspec table, delete the map entry for the one the administrator console complained.

And referesh, then it worked.

Setup sharepoint 2013 preview in hyper-V encountered an error during setup

I was installing the SharePoint 2013 preview in windows 8 hyper-V environment.
Firstly, it looks good, it is running installing until the last 10% bit,



I am keep getting the unexpected error,

Tried all sorts of ways, such as install all latest update,  run set up as administrator, install office. No matter what, it just can not complete the setup.

The magic to fix it is to modify the virtual machine settings and give 4 virtual CPUs, then it worked !

Many small things that nice to know in SharePoint 2010

Variation Label - used for language locale.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/about-variation-labels-HA010120731.aspx

For List columns performance, need to create indexed list column. This article discusses the database behind the indexed column.
http://blog.dynatrace.com/2009/01/28/sharepoint-list-performance-how-list-column-indices-really-work-under-the-hood/

Feature stapling is a good way to associate the feature to a site definition which is in use, such as Team Site. It has stapler and staplee.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kunal_mukherjee/archive/2011/01/11/feature-stapling-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Tons of SharePoint 2013 new features links

I haven't really looked at SharePoint 2013 recently, suddenly there are a lot good articles and tutorial blogs to talk about it.

This is a blog site which has a good tutorial to create a sharepoint 2013 site master page and page layout.
http:/microsoftstrategy.com/category/sharepoint-2013

This talks about a new SPSecurityEventReceiver
http://maiomardesouki.com/2012/08/28/whats-new-in-sharepoint-2013-event-receivers/

And Sahil Malik talks about jQuery and cross-domain javascript and using Azure ACS with SharePoint,
http://blah.winsmarts.com/2012-1-jQuery_and_Crossdomain.aspx
http://blah.winsmarts.com/2011-12-Integrate_Azure_ACS_with_SharePoint_in_2_minutes_or_less.aspx

How to use SPXMLContentMapProvider to implement consistent navigation in sp2010,
http://blah.winsmarts.com/2008-1-Implementing_Consistent_Navigation_across_Site_Collections.aspx

SharePoint 2013/2010 claims encoding

Just a wiki document clearly explains the sharepoint user ID meaning, such as
i:0#.w|contoso\chris as my reference.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13921.sharepoint-2013-and-sharepoint-2010-claims-encoding.aspx

Add STS reference is missing in vs.net 2012

VS.net 2012 by default included the Windows Identity Framework and its SDK. However, if you try to right-click the project, you won't be able to find the "Add STS reference" in the context menu.

This has been changed in vs.net 2012 and called "Identity & Access" as below,

 

 

To be able to use this, you need to go to Tools -> Extensions and Updates -> Enter "Identity" in search to install the "Identity and Access Tool" first, then restart vs.net 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WCF Service configuration tool is the best friend

It is a very productive day today. Have to create a new wcf service and published it as basicHttpBinding, because the service is taking a xml data, so the message size is very possibile to execeed the default 8096 bytes limit.

So the wcf service config needs to be set up with the correct settings such as,

<bindings>
    <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="basicHttp" allowCookies="true"
                 maxReceivedMessageSize="20000000" 
                 maxBufferSize="20000000"
                 maxBufferPoolSize="20000000">
            <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" 
                 maxArrayLength="200000000"
                 maxStringContentLength="200000000"/>
        </binding>
    </basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>

Also in service, the bindingConfiguration should be used such as,
<services>
      <service name="Example.Services.TestService">
        <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="basicHttp" contract="Example.Services.ITestService"/>
      </service>
  </services>

I have done it a few times, so I just copied & pasted from other service settings and modify it to the one for this service name.

But after a few hours testing, I am still keeping get the "message exceeds the size error". Have to carefully check the web.config and no way find any error for the settings.

In the end, I just removed the old web.config, and bring it up the WCFServiceConfiguration tool to browse to the service assmebly and use the tool to create the correct basicHttpBinding.

Then it worked !!!

The lesson I got from it is, we should use the WCF configuration tool to create the correct config file rather than just copy & paste, which is error-prone and easily can miss something and stucked.