Get Rid of struck state of Audience Compilation in User profile Service application

Sometimes while audience compilation(Scheduled/Manual), the timer job get struck or fail and hence no further audience compilation occur.
The User profile application page will display compilation status to be compiling and it will remain continuously for n number of days, until the running timer service is not aborted.
Its nice that SharePoint provides a service named AudienceJob which is responsible of compiling audiences and works quite easily with powershell. What we need is to be able to run it is the Application ID of the User profile service where Audience is compiled.
To get the application ID either use powershell (SharePoint Powershell management console) Open it with as administrator.
$timerJob=[Microsoft.Office.Server.Audience.AudienceJob]::RunAudienceJob($param);

OR

copy the application ID from the user profile service application page URL (ApplicationID={})
Just replace “%2D” with “-” and you have your app ID of the user profile service application.

In SharePoint Powershell management console,
1. type AudienceJob 0 >>> to abort and
2. type AudienceJob 1 >>> to start

Once done in sequence , The compilation status will return to normal state and all audiences would have been compiled. Set up a scheduled time for daily/weekly/monthly compilation as per your requirement.

Cheers

 

Firefox settings to avoid prompt for SharePoint Sites

We all complain about Firefox prompting for password each time we access any SharePoint Site. Here is a workaround or may be fix to avoid that.

•  Open Firefox browser.
• Enter “about:config” in address bar and click enter. You should get either below screen or just go to the about:config page.

             

• Click on “I’ll be Careful, I promise!” and proceed.
• In about Config page, enter “network.automatic”.
  
• In the list, double-click “network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris”
• Enter the URL for which you’d like to enable integrated Authentication(i.e do not want any prompt for authentication). To enter multiple urls, separate them by commas.
  
• Click OK

You are done. Have a hassle free experience in Firefox for SharePoint Sites .

How to add a List Item Using SharePoint Web service

SharePoint WebServices are one of the cool features provided which enables us usage of SharePoint capability in form of Web Methods and can be accessed from any other server / Application. We need to add a service reference to the project . The URL which should be used must be  http://<ServerName>/<SubsiteorSite(ifRequired)>/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx (for accessing SharePoint List).

Refere here for more

Now once the reference is added , Name it as per your case. i am using the reference name as “SRefiCentralList”.

Below code will add an item to the list. Change the code based on your requirement. You need to change the List Name and Field Names.

SRefiCentralList.ListsSoapClient wsClient = new SRefiCentralList.ListsSoapClient();
wsClient.ClientCredentials.Windows.AllowNtlm =true;
//Allow NTLM authenticattion

//Use Credential for a domain acoount, recommened a service account. This is required only for allowing user to add item impersonated.
wsClient.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential =
new NetworkCredential(<UserName>, <Password>, <Domain>);
wsClient.ClientCredentials.Windows.AllowedImpersonationLevel =System.Security.Principal.TokenImpersonationLevel.Impersonation;
//All Impersonation.
//Get List object in Xelement
XElement doc = wsClient.GetList(@"<List Name>");
//get list ID of List
listID = (from x in doc.Attributes() where x.Name.LocalName.Equals("ID" )
select x.Value).FirstOrDefault();
//New fields can be added as above while adding an item
XElement newItem = newXElement("Batch", newXAttribute("OnError", "Continue"),
newXAttribute("ListVersion", "1"), new XElement("Method",newXAttribute("ID", "1"),
newXAttribute("Cmd", "New"),newXElement("Field",newXAttribute("Name", "Title"),<Title Value>),
newXElement("Field",newXAttribute("Name", "Start_x0020_Time"),<start Time Value>),
newXElement("Field",newXAttribute("Name", "End_x0020_Time"),ChatUploadEndTime)));
XElement resCreateNew = wsClient.UpdateListItems(listID, newItem);
//Add an item to list.
//Add an attchment to the added new list item
string strListItemId = (from t in resCreateNew.Descendants().Attributes("ows_ID")
select t.Value).FirstOrDefault();
//xmlstringData is a string data which is converted to string.which should be attached.
// Will update the List item with attachment.
string xmlString = wsClient.AddAttachment("<List Name>", strListItemId, "<File Name>, xmlstringData);

This is really helpful to update any list item away from the SharePoint Server.If your code is not excecuted on SharePoint server, only way out is using web services.All the best