SharePoint Dropdown menu, hover menu

Hello World

Its been a while but its back to business, a lot has changed and a lot remains the same.
Today's gotcha
Drop down menus, hover menus not working in SharePoint using IE, Working in Chrome and FireFox

Seems the quick fix is to run the repair office utility  which resolves the problem. Why the disparity , IE relies on office integration. The others do not. "Simple" as that.

Found answer here:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/929c3cfa-0b48-44d5-95ea-9495649a6551/sharepoint-dropdown-menus-stopped-working

SharePoint 2013 New State Service with PowerShell

SP2013

Really quick, To create a New State Service on SharePoint 2013 do the following in SharePoint Powershell run as Administrator as per usual

• $serviceApp = New-SPStateServiceApplication -Name “State Service Application”
• New-SPStateServiceDatabase -Name “SP2013_Service_State” -ServiceApplication $serviceApp
• New-SPStateServiceApplicationProxy -Name “State Service Application Proxy” -ServiceApplication $serviceApp -DefaultProxyGroup

All done.

Code taken from http://blog.blksthl.com/2012/02/14/create-a-new-state-service-service-application-using-powershell/ .

SharePoint Search Service Or How to ruin my week

I recently had to fix a SharePoint Search Service that stopped out of the blue. Something that was working and had stopped.
The issue was when you went to the search application you got the following.



Crawl: The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component  "systemname"  status - in search application Search Service Application is in a good state and try again."

After checking that the SQL was up, the associated dbs were online (crawl,admin and property). And that the service account was associated.

So after checking a few links ( handy dandy google.) I tried somepowershell commands to check on the service


To remove some old Search Data

http://jshidell.com/2011/09/01/unable-to-remove-search-service-application-in-sharepoint-2010/

And removed the search service app pool plus some other app pools

http://jshidell.com/2011/09/01/removing-unused-service-application-app-pools-in-sharepoint-2010-using-powershell/

Oh Redhat why do you perplex me so.

Spent 6 hours installing a RH 4 server.. Driver issues grrrr...

google make over
http://www.valacar.com/userstyles/

great post by Jon Peck on setting up a $80 server.

http://jonpeck.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-configure-80-fileserver-in-45.html

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TiVo's impact on the future of television advertising

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Have Pshop Skills? Help restore photos for NOLA families... Please digg!

I recently volunteered for Operation Photo Rescue and WE NEED HELP...

All,
I had hoped to begin distribution today (Wed 5/03), but to say that we have been swamped is an understatement. During the whole week that we initially spent in Pass Christian, MS, we gathered 500 photos from around 50 or so families...

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