I'm looking for the equivalent of an Azure RoleInstanceId, but on an Azure Website (as opposed to an Azure Web Role). I've looked extensively for such a thing, but to no avail. I even deployed a "test" website to display all of the Environment Variables on the Azure Website, but there didn't appear to be a useful variable in the set.
Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated!
BTW, in case you're interested in why I would want such a thing, I'm trying to implement an advanced version of the Steve Marx's excellent Scalable Counters with Windows Azure...
Request.ServerVariables[ "INSTANCE_ID" ]
Get IIS site id from a website
Would give you IIS site Id .. Might work as an identify. Other than hard coding in configuration file.
That should give you a unique id then of inputting a id for each row of the counter.
Worst case would be just use Guid and generate it each time.
This would then make sure you counter would be good.
Hths,
James
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Is Sharepoint my best option to replace an aging network of fileshares? There's approx 1TB of data residing among 3 fileshares (1 DFS, 2 NAS boxes). A document management system is in place for new things - the file shares are now just read-only archives/legacy. Our users would simply need to be able to search for and open the documents.
Users are finding it difficult to locate their documents in the file shares and windows search does not often help. Sharepoint was suggested as something which would play nicely with Office documents (99% of the content) and have a good search facility.
Not being a Sharepoint Developer or having had any training on it, I'm getting a little lost. I have set up a test server to try it out using SP2013. I have managed to index each of my file shares and have created a search page. However, results aren't consistent with the indexted items. I assume I need to somehow get the relevant metadata from the files but I have no idea how to go about this.
Could anyone suggest some resources for help on this subject (my searches have mainly turned up paid-for Sharepoint addons or outdated blogs) and any experience of doing something similar? Also happy for any suggestions on ways to achieve this using other software/platforms.
I went with Microsoft Search Server 2010 in the end.
Sharepoint is basically optimized to be a document manager. I think you don't need to buy or donwload addons.
For your problem, metadata are the key! You need to properly specify the metadata.
I give you the theory of a plan document management in SharePoint 2013 :
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263266.aspx
A nice introduction to metadata :
http://fr.slideshare.net/gzelfond/document-management-in-sharepoint-without-folders-introduction-to-metadata
Be careful to use the Microsoft documentation for the beginning. From my experience, its difficult to start with this documentation because you have several things in it. There is also good books/ebooks that you can find easily to start well, and probably more simplified than MS documentation.
I finally decided to give Azure a try and the first thing I do - creating a simple web site - fails with: Creation of web site 'null' failed. Details say: Provisioning failed.
I am simply trying to "quick create" a simple website. Researching the Web, I see other people with the same problem, but no real solution.
I do have an active "Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN" subscription and $150 of unexpired credits.
I must be missing something very fundamental.
Seems to be known issue:
A number of users have experienced “Provisioning Failed” errors when
attempting to deploy Windows Azure Websites. This is a known issue
with the trial version, and there is an active discussion thread on
the MSDN forums here.
It is expected that this is a temporary problem that will be fixed
soon, in the meantime there are a few things you can try: Ensure
database passwords do not contain special characters like ', ", =,
etc. Try creating a website without a database, database creation may
be causing the error. Try deploying the site in a few hours, it may be
a temporary problem in the data center.
So, to put some closure on this, I contacted Microsoft Support and they suggested trying to login to the portal through an anomymous/incognito browser session. Once I did that, I was able to create a website.
Mind you, having cleared all persistent data (cookies, etc.) in the regular browser, I still cannot do anything in Azure, from several different machines. But at least the incognito session is a workable workaround.
I am developing a Net Suite application based on web services (SuiteTalk). I have learned about the concept of System Notes, which are a journal of changes on all types of objects. Yet, I see no way to access the list of system notes (say last N notes) via web services. Are you aware if this is possible and how? If not, what would be an alternative solution?
I know you can do it via a RESTlet/Suitelet, not sure about web services.
In JS you can do a search with a joint field on the results.. something like :
nlobjSearchColumn( 'date','systemnotes');
*I think is systemnotes.
Do the filter criteria on a UI search, and link that search to the service script, from there is pretty standard.
There is an existing app in MOSS, which allows to create polls for a call center, operators fill them out as they call targeted customers. Then this Web app outputs the results of this poll.
Is it possible to change the interface language of this existing web app? Operators don't understand English. If it's not about language packs, it would still be easier for me to embed new names and labels, rather than rewrite in a system I am not familiar with.
Also, is it possible to change the authentication type from Windows authentication to regular username/password check (username and password will be stored in DB or somewhere only for this site)
If it is possible, can you direct me to some kind of tutorial, help or manual which would show how to do it?
On MSDN it's written that language can't be changed, but I'm not sure whether it's about the Web app language.
Thank you.
Have a look at chapter 4 in our free SharePoint Development Guidelines.
I have no mutch idea about web app language
But I shall share you the links for sql authentication
http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2006/06/14/1617.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/moss_enableforms.aspx
For SharePoint it is possible to create different web's in different languages. Not that i know you could use one web in different languages.
But, it may be funny or not, a crazy idea or not, but could work: before dumping rendered contents to user, maybe you could extract text values excluding form values, post them to Google or Bing translator and put back translated values? You can override global.asax file and use PreSendRequestContent to modify contents just before they are sent to client.
If your company is not huge and it's an intranet page, then, althought slower, but it could work. Better than nothing.
PreSendRequestContent. This event
signals that content is about to be
sent to the client. This provides an
opportunity to modify the content
before it is sent.
I would like to find out how much space my group's SharePoint site uses (files + version history). However, I only have administrative access to my site, not the entire SharePoint instance, so I have to come up with my own solution. I'm interested in the total, but usage per individual file is also fine.
I've googled everything I could think of but couldn't find much that would help. SharePoint programming seems out of the question since I don't have access to the machine. SharePoint Web Services looked promising but none of the services provided seem to give me what I need. I also found a VBA library that lets me list the versions of a document: Office.DocumentLibraryVersion. However, this type does not include a "size" property - why not?
Anyway, I would be happy with either of the following solutions:
A library or API to be used from VBA, VB, or C# (or any other language, for that matter)
A SharePoint Web Service that provides file size/space usage information
A completely crazy script that uses http to iterate through all the folders/files/versions in the library and does insane pattern matching to figure out the size of each file, then adds them together and returns the grand total (SharePoint du)
I figured SO is the best forum for this question, but a non-programmatic solution is just as welcome. Basically, anything you can come up with would help. At this point, even "this is not possible" would be useful.
Thanks in advance.
There is a hidden page that does this... Cannot find it right now.
Check the 1033 directory and similar to /layouts/usage.aspx.
That page links to /layouts/storman.aspx. Unfortunately that page does not work if your site collection does not have a quota.
Go to Site Settings / Site Usage Report.
If what you are looking for is not there, I don't think you can do it with your level of access.
got to siote actions--> site administration-->site usage reports-->
you can get the site usgae report
if you want to get it in excel chart--> open your site in sharepoint designer-->site-->reports-->usage-->then you can get
usage summary
monthly summary
daily summary
daily page hits
etc