Set value to an Managed Metadata field

Managed Metadata is an extraordinary feature in SharePoint career path. It helps organization to structure all unstructured data and it is easy to use them.

The managed metadata field can be associated with List, document library.. etc

Also it has a feature that not used values(terms) can be deprecated instead deleting them permanently from centralized location. The deprecated terms can be used for future tracking. Normally if any MMD field associated with a TermSet then user can see only Enabled terms in the TermStore tree. It is a out-of-the-box feature that SharePoint will apply filter and display only enabled terms to the end user.

But deprecated term also can be assigned to a MMD field if necessary based on business need using Server Object model.

Find the code sample below which assign value to MMD field with enabled and deprecated term.

using System;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy;

namespace SetMMD_Field {
    class Program {
        static void Main(string[] args) {
            SPList lst = null; ;
            
            using (SPSite site = new SPSite(@"http://kmstechs/")) {
                using (SPWeb web = site.RootWeb) {
                  //  SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate() {
                        lst = web.Lists["SK_Test"];
                        SPListItem oSPListItem = lst.Items.Add();
                        oSPListItem["Title"] = "Hello SharePoint";
                        TaxonomySession session = new TaxonomySession(site);

                        TaxonomyField taxfield = oSPListItem.Fields["Invalid_MMD"] as TaxonomyField;
                        Term InvalidTerm = session.GetTerm(new Guid(@"7dba48a0-89fa-4203-a265-e49ca3752ab7"));
                        string taxFieldInternalname1 = oSPListItem.Fields["Invalid_MMD"].InternalName;
                        oSPListItem[taxFieldInternalname1] = InvalidTerm.Name + "|" + InvalidTerm.Id.ToString();
                        taxfield.SetFieldValue(oSPListItem, InvalidTerm);

                        TaxonomyField taxfield2 = oSPListItem.Fields["Valid_MMD"] as TaxonomyField;
                        Term validTerm = session.GetTerm(new Guid(@"dca67b77-e4f4-4630-8785-e22518945ecc"));
                        string taxFieldInternalname2 = oSPListItem.Fields["Valid_MMD"].InternalName;
                        oSPListItem[taxFieldInternalname2] = validTerm.Name + "|" + validTerm.Id.ToString();
                        taxfield2.SetFieldValue(oSPListItem, validTerm);

                        oSPListItem.Update();
                   // });
                }
            }

            Console.WriteLine("done");
            Console.ReadKey(true);
        }
    }
}

Enjoy working with SharePoint :-)

Add more properties (metadata) to SharePoint Folder

Add more properties (metadata) to SharePoint Folder

Folder is an content type in SharePoint and it being used for categorizing OR grouping specified items/documents OR Applying Explorer view on SharePoint contents.  The folder content type provide explorer view if user wanted to navigate an document among many.

But the Folder content type is sealed in SharePoint and it will not allow the administrator to amend folder’s properties. Instead we can create a new custom content type by inheriting base folder content type and add new properties that are needed.

Below are the steps to create new folder content type with additional properties (metadata)

1. Login to the  SharePoint site where you need folder with additional properties
2. Navigate to Site Actions -->  Site Settings
3. Click on Site Content Types
4. Click on Create link
5. Enter new content type name 
6. Set the parent content type group as “Folder Content Types”
7. Set the parent content type to “Folder”
8. Provide new group name for new content type. Or else the new content type will be displayed under Custom content type group.
9. Click OK button
10. Click on New column and provide the column details 
11. Add the custom content type where ever you need and update the views with new folder properties.

Note: Make sure allow custom content type option is enabled in the document library advances settings to add custom content type.

SharePoint 2013 server is not allowing 32bit application

I got a task to setup SharePoint 2013 production environment. Simply I was told by customer that we need SharePoint 2013 setup in single server with Search and Excel services.  I have download AuthoSPInstaller from here and updated the configuration values as per customer need. The AutoSPIntstaller reduce most of my time on installing pre-requisites and SharePoint installation. I will write all in details in separate post.

Post SharePoint 2013 installation, Customer is happy with the configuration and they started using all SharePoint 2013 features. After a week of time customer planned to use same SharePoint server to deploy some 32bit .Net web services. But the deployment was not successful as the SharePoint server not to ready allow any 32bit application.

The issue reported to me then I have investigated the issue and found the problematic place. The global module web config does not have any  property to allow 32bit application. At same time I found some more 32bit related error in event viewer.

The Module DLL 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\isapi\spnativerequestmodule.dll' could not be loaded due to a configuration problem. The current configuration only supports loading images built for a x86 processor architecture. The data field contains the error number. To learn more about this issue, including how to troubleshooting this kind of processor architecture mismatch error, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=29349.

New ISAPI module in SharePoint 2013 stopping our 32 site from loading. Probably part of the new Request Management piece in SP2013 (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/09/14/working-with-request-manager-in-sharepoint-2013.aspx)

I  have verified global section in “ ApplicationHost.config” file which present at %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv\config

Alternatively command prompt can be used list global module section from “ ApplicationHost.config”

1. Open command prompt
2. Change directory to %systemroot%\system32\inetsrv (e.g. c:\windows\system32\inetsrv)
3. Used below command to list all config details.

         appcmd list config  /section:globalmodules

Check the property in SharePoint Native Request Module

< add name="SPNativeRequestModule" image="C:\Program Files\Common Files\Micro
soft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\isapi\spnativerequestmodule.dll" />

If precondition property not available then update property using below command to enable the server to allow 32bit application.

appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/globalModules /[name='SPNativeRequestModule'].preCondition:integratedMode,bitness64

Once the above command executed successfully then the property of SharePoint Native Request Module will be updated as below.

   

< add name="SPNativeRequestModule" image="C:\Program Files\Common Files\Micro
soft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\isapi\spnativerequestmodule.dll" preConditi

on="integratedMode,bitness64" />  

Restart the server and verify 32 bit application.

Good luck :-)

Retrieve Secure Store Service credentials in SharePoint 2010/13

There are some actions to be taken care manually in SharePoint 2010/13. If any service account password is updated then the same password can be updated using managed accounts which get updated in all the places in same SharePoint Farm. But if SharePoint using any services from other farm then the password will not be updated and create new issue while access the service from other farms.

The account details will be stored in secure store services. To update the new password, SharePoint Administrator should aware or refer any document to find services and currently using credentials. SharePoint 2010 service application does not have any user interface to identify those details quickly. In such case below PowerShell script can be used.

$serviceCntx = Get-SPServiceContext -Site http://kmsnet:12345/
$sssProvider = New-Object Microsoft.Office.SecureStoreService.Server.SecureStoreProvider
$sssProvider.Context = $serviceCntx
$marshal = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]

try
{
$applicationlications = $sssProvider.GetTargetApplications()
foreach ($application in $applicationlications)
{
Write-Output "`n$($application.Name)"
Write-Output "$('-'*50)"
try
{
$sssCreds = $sssProvider.GetCredentials($application.Name)
foreach ($sssCred in $sssCreds)
{
$ptr = $marshal::SecureStringToBSTR($sssCred.Credential)
$str = $marshal::PtrToStringBSTR($ptr)
Write-Output "$($sssCred.CredentialType): $($str)"
}
}
catch
{
Write-Output "(Something went wrong) - Error getting credentials!"
}
Write-Output "$('-'*50)"
}
}

catch
{
Write-Output "(Something went wrong) - Error getting Target Applications."
}

$marshal::ZeroFreeBSTR($ptr)