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Apps not available for user pages

our company just started using sharepoint 2013 (in office 365). We are trying to get an app to show up in the user personal pages. In this case it is about the app 'promoted links'. When we login ...
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Single Sign On between two web applications?

In my SharePoint 2013 Server farm I have two web applications: Simple intranet portal (http://portal) My Sites (http://portal:8080) Problem is that users have to authenticate to each application. ...
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SP 2013 (SP Online; Office 365) web services

I'm trying to do the seemingly simple task of writing changes to a user profile in SharePoint 2013 / Office 365. Tried: Client APIs - nope, user profile is read-only Sandbox Solution - nope (I ...
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Programatically update profile field(s)

I have a requirement to update user profile fields. I'm able to query the fields, of course, using the CSOM API in Javascript. But, as per here - ...
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ResolvePrincipal vs SearchPrincipal

So I'm attempting to write something to mimic sharepoint's people picker. I was originally using Utility.ResolvePrincipal with some success, but it was only returning me a single user (obviously). So, ...
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Delete sharepoint user property using powershell

This is the script im using to delete the sharepoint userprofile property using powershell. #Load Sharepoint SnapIn if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction ...
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request timed out error while creating User profile service application after long time

in order to configure my sites in sharepoint 2013, we need to start user profile synchronization service. while starting that service it should populate user profile application. for me it is not ...
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Error following site across farm using shared user profile service application

I have published my user profile service application and my search service application from one farm which hosts mysites to another farm which is just for collaboration. I would like to be able to ...
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Newsfeed error - The operation failed because the server could not access the distributed cache

I've recently installed SharePoint 2013 RTM and on the newsfeed page the error "The operation failed because the server could not access the distributed cache." with no items are available in the ...
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Creating users in the User Profile Service

Background We are currently using SharePoint 2010 and are potentially looking at SharePoint 2013 for an upcoming project. Question The article below suggests that user profiles cannot be created ...
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Identity correlation using User Profile Service (FIM)

Background We are currently using SharePoint 2010 and are potentially looking at SharePoint 2013 for an upcoming project. We have information about 'users' (employees) in a bunch of systems: Active ...