Slow No Longer: Nepal’s Banking Sector Now on SharePoint

Noel Labitag | August 24, 2016 at 5:42 pm

  Tech One Global’s innovation reached new heights once again – the implementation of SharePoint on Nepal’s local banks. The banking sector plays a vital role for a nation’s economy. It serves as the reservoir of the investors of public and private industries. Now, seeing that Nepal is caught between the traditional and trending banking workflows, Tech One Global Nepal leads the banks to the right route through integrating SharePoint on banking processes. TOG Nepals’ team…


Make Your SharePoint Calendar More Delightful

Manoj Viduranga | April 29, 2016 at 5:42 pm

Calendar – being one of the most significant feature in SharePoint. Most of the time we use it in a meaningful way, but deep inside us, we need a little bit of customization. This article demonstrates the way of customizing the color code of calendar items based on a specific category. Scenario: I need my calendar to show different colors for each category such as meeting, business, etc. Once we complete all the steps, you will see…


Publishing InfoPath Form To a SharePoint Library

Praneeth Kaushalya | March 16, 2016 at 4:33 pm

  So you want to publish an InfoPath form to your SharePoint library? You came to the right place! Here is a step-by-step tutorial how to publish one:   • First, create your InfoPath form using InfoPath Designer. • After creating your InfoPath form, go to the File and select Form Options. • In form options wizard in category field, select Compatibility and input “Web Browser Form” into Form Type. • Under Property Promotion, add the…


Setting up Load Balanced Office Web Apps 2013 Multi Server Farm with SSL (Part 2)

Manoj Viduranga | February 18, 2016 at 5:21 pm

    As continued from Part 1.     4.4. Configure SSL Certificates for OWA HTTPS We are using Active Directory Certificate Service to issue web Server Certificates for our OWA Farm which will only be trusted and validated within the domain Network. For External Networks such as the internet, you need to purchase a genuine SSL Certificate from a Third party vendor such as Verisign. If you use Internal Certificates (Such as the one used…


Workflow History: The Email Message Cannot be Sent

Manoj Viduranga | February 10, 2016 at 1:32 pm

As a matter of fact, it’s a pretty common error in the SharePoint environment and there are many blog articles cover the same issue; but this scenario is quite different. This error is a common output for many reasons to the point that it needs some effort to drill down to the source. It clearly states that your SharePoint Farm is not properly configured for outgoing email (sometimes this is not the reason) and the list…


Word, PDF, PPT Cannot be Opened but Excel and OneNote

Manoj Viduranga | February 3, 2016 at 2:52 pm

Word, PDF, PPT Cannot be Opened but Excel, OneNote: Resolving an Extremely Strange Behavior of Office Web Apps 2013   In this scenario, we will be using a freshly installed Office Web Apps 2013 (With SP1) Farm Configured with two nodes – load balanced with Windows NLB and secured via SSL as HTTPS. After all the configuration in OWA Farm and WOPI binding on SharePoint, Excel Files opens perfectly on browser but strangely enough, Word, Excel,…


Step-by-Step Configure SharePoint Incoming Email

Irshad Nazly | January 27, 2016 at 4:35 pm

  Welcome! Here is the Step-by-step to configuring SharePoint for Incoming Email written by Irshad Nazly.   First, Install SMTP Server   Verify that the user account performing this procedure is a member of the Administrators group on the front-end web server. Open Server Manager. In Server Manager, click Add Roles and Features. Click Next to skip role in installation On the Features screen, select SMTP Server.     In the Add Roles and Features…


Customize SharePoint URL using AAM and DNS

Irshad Nazly | January 14, 2016 at 2:50 pm

  Before we dig dip into customizing SharePoint URL, let us remind ourselves that many of us don’t know what SharePoint is all about. More often than not, we use different SharePoint functionality but we don’t have the idea if it is the right tool of not. There are several types of SharePoint — (1) Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), (2) Microsoft SharePoint Server (MOSS), and (3) Microsoft Search Server.     Technically, according to AIIM, Windows…


Creating a New Report on SharePoint Site

Shashika Hettiarachchi | January 6, 2016 at 11:12 am

      Before delving into the entry, let’s define more of what Microsoft SharePoint is: What is SharePoint? Based on Microsoft site, “Organizations use SharePoint to create websites. You can use it as a secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from almost any device. All you need is a web browser, such as Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Firefox.” SharePoint Online – A cloud-based service, hosted by Microsoft, for businesses of all sizes. Instead of…


“Sorry Something Went Wrong” Error When Opening a Document on SharePoint

Manoj Viduranga | December 2, 2015 at 4:20 pm

  Got my test farm created with SharePoint and Office Web apps 2013 and I was so excited to experience the functionality. I uploaded a document to the library and looked into the rendering part. However, I keep getting an error saying, “Sorry Something Went Wrong,” which happens too when I click preview in a browser.     As I recall, everything went well with the installation of Web apps. I tried restarting of Servers just to make sure…


Change the default Redirect Location of “Display Item Form” close button in SharePoint

Praneeth Kaushalya | November 25, 2015 at 11:12 am

  Most of the time, people are using the SharePoint’s Display item form to display their list content in a page. By default, the Display item form’s close button redirect you to the default view of the library where your page/document exists or where your item exists. In some cases, some people want to change this redirect URL. We have several ways to achieve this. In this case, we can use JavaScript. I’ll demonstrate it using a page parameter on how we…


Add Sign in as Different User in SharePoint 2013

Tech One Global | November 11, 2015 at 1:46 pm

  Our blog entry for today is a rather bit technical for the users. However, Shashika Hettiarachchi detailed below in the easiest way how to add “Sign in as Different User” option for SharePoint 2013. This removed “Sign in as Different User” menu item is very useful for testing applications; but as a precaution, it can lead to problems especially when opening documents — say a Microsoft Word document. This may be the reason why this option…