Friday, October 11, 2013

October 2013 CU for SharePoint 2010 has been released

The product group released the October 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family.
Be aware that the October Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the October CU.

The KB articles for October CU are availabe at the following locations:
  • KB 2825824 - SharePoint Foundation 2010
  • KB 2825786 - SharePoint Server 2010
  • KB 2825793 - SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server
  • As you see there is a separate Full Server Package for SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server which simplifies patching of this common installation.
  • After installing the fixes you need to run the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard on each machine in the farm.
That means only one package has to be installed for the SharePoint 2010 product family.

The Full Server Packages for October 2013 CU are available through the following links:
Be aware that the SharePoint Server 2010 CU contains the SharePoint Foundation CU. And the SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server CU contains Project Server CU, SharePoint Server CU and SharePoint Foundation CU.

SharePoint Feature Administration and Clean Up Tool

The Feature Admin Tool finds faulty FeatureDefinitions and cleanly uninstalls them.
It finds feature remainders in sites, SiteCollections, WebApps and in the Farm, caused e.g. by forcefully uninstalled Features from a farm without deactivating them before. These faulty features, never visible, cause errors.
The Feature Admin Tool is able to identify them and remove them.

Very useful for migrations e.g. from 2007 to 2010 or from Enterprise to Standard.

Also, uninstall, (bulk) deactivate or (bulk) activate features with any scope farm wide.
Ideal, for activating or deactivating features in large farms with many sites and/or SiteCollections.

Features' of the FeatureAdmin Tool

* List features and feature definitions
* Search for faulty features in the farm and remove them cleanly if wanted
* Uninstall feature Definitions from the farm, even if faulty
* When uninstalling a feature, FeatureAdmin provides an option to deactivate this feature in the entire farm         before uninstalling it
*  Can also simply activate or deactivate features with any scope in the whole farm, in only a Web  
    Application, only within a SiteCollection or in a Site (SPWeb)
*  Web Apps are parsed automatically, after selecting one, all Site Collections in the Web App are shown
*  When selecting a SiteCollection, all sites (webs) are listed automatically.
*  Logging information is shown (e.g. change of selections, features added or removed)
*  Features and Feature Definitions are sorted (first after scope and then) after name
*  The FeatureAdmin window and all internal windows are resizeable (starting with version 2.1)


You need to have appropriate right

dbOwner rights to the SharePoint Configuration database and to every content database, you would like to cleanup, activate or deactivate features on.
You should add your login account to the Web Application User Policy with Full Control for each of the content web apps in the farm and it should be a member of the farm administrators group.
Additionally, this tool needs to run locally on a SharePoint Instance.
If you use the "find faulty feature" functionality, it will parse through the whole farm.

Reference : http://featureadmin.codeplex.com/

Some Free WebParts for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2010

Hi Readers , 

After a long break i got time to come back to my blog and share some good information with you guys . 

Today i came accross some webparts which can be implemented on sharepoint which are free to use . 

Note :  As these web parts caters different platforms ( SP 2013 and SP 2010) , the developer has not provided source code in codeplex. Source can be downloaded from sky drive links that are available at the bottom of the blog posts


Sl.NoWeb PartParticularsPlatform
1Script Box WebPartEasily refer JavaScript and CSS style sheets in SharePoint Application with Script Box WebPart (This not OTB Script Editor WebPart)SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010
2Muti WebPart Tab Pages WebPartCombine multiple Web Parts placed in a SharePoint 2013 Page into Tab Pages with the help of this Muti WebPart Tab Pages WebPart. This WebPart accepts web part titles as input parameter and convert those WebParts into Tab PagesSharePoint 2013
3Tab Pages Web PartMuti Tab Pages WebPart in SharePoint 2013 with jQuery Easy Tabs Plugin. No more combining multiple web parts into Tab Pages. You can create tab pages in a single web part itself with this Multi Tab Pages WebPart. Source code is provided for SharePoint 2013, but it can be easily converted to SharePoint 2010SharePoint 2013
4Feature Manager WebPart for Office 365Feature Manager web part for public facing SharePoint 2013 website of Office 365. As there is no Manage Features option available in public facing site of Office 365, this web part would help to manage features.Office 365, SharePoint 2013
5Twitter Feed WebPartTwitter Feed WebPart based on Twitter API 1.1.This web part has the capability to render the content in default Twitter Timeline mode based on Twitter Widget ID and also has a custom rendering modeSharePoint 2013
6Flip Book WebPartFlip Book WebPart transforms the web part content to a book with cover that can be flipped page by page.SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010
7Announcement Slider Web PartCreate a Slider based on the items available in your Announcement list.SharePoint 2010
8Image Carousel Web PartImage carousel web part is based on highly popular Nivo slider plugin. This web part supports all configuration option provided by Nivo Slider. These configuration settings can be set via properties of web partSharePoint 2013
9Data List Web PartThis is a grid web part based on jQuery plugin data tables. This plugin provides extensive options to sort, filter and search grid items.SharePoint 2013
10News Ticker Web PartA news ticker in SharePoint 2013.SharePoint 2013
11Change Password Web PartChange Password WebPart for Active directory Users in SharePoint 2010SharePoint 2010
12Twitter Feed Client Web PartSharePoint 2013 Napa App which renders tweets based on a Twitter handlerSharePoint 2013 NAPA
13Access Denied Web PartThis web part can be configured to redirect users to access denied page or to a custom URL irrespective of their privileges available for that page.SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010
14Metro UI Live Tiles Web PartLive Tiles Web Part based on  Metro UISharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010
15Dynamic Promoted LinksPromoted Links WebPart with dynamic data feedSharePoint 2013
16Share Point Dynamic FormsThis is a separate codeplex project , which has the capability to create data entry forms dynamically based on the configuration details set in the web part or in a separate configuration file.SharePoint 2010
http://list.ly/list/3GG-free-webparts-for-sharepoint-2013-and-sharepoint-2010


Thanks to Ashok Raja for sharing these webparts

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