Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
How to find the site template of an existing SharePoint site? There are many ways to find the site definition being used for a site, Here are some: 1. Use SharePoint Manager to find the SharePoint site template. Navigate through the site, and look for “Web Template” as in the below picture….
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In SharePoint servers, some of the SharePoint, IIS, SQL Server folders should be excluded from anti-virus protection in order to avoid performance hits! such as: (C:\ may be other drive as well) C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Logs C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Data. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Bin C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Synchronization Service, C:\Documents and Settings\Default…
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During the migration of MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010, wanted to convert some of the large subsites into site collection in a separate content databases. How to convert a subsite to a site collection in SharePoint? sure, Its possible to promote subsite to site collection in SharePoint. Follow these Steps to Convert…
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In my SharePoint Farm, I wanted to disable certain site templates in site creation page. Here is the technique for hiding a Site template in SharePoint 2007: There are XML manifest files found on the file system of the web front end. Look for the file webtemp.xml,webtempsps.xml,etc in “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server…
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In SharePoint, we can display Google Maps without any third-party web parts. Here, I explain how you can insert “Google Maps” maps in your SharePoint site with standard out-of-the-box SharePoint features. You can display Google Maps in SharePoint by embedding Google map code in the SharePoint Content Editor Web Part. Go to…
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You can create a Custom link in Site Action Menu using the CustomAction feature code. My Requirement is to add a new link “Support Center” in the Site actions Menu So that all site owners can easily access the SharePoint Support Center site. Create a folder in 12/14 hive’s features folder, say…
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Requirement: Adding a custom group of actions in SharePoint site settings page. Solution: We can create a feature to achieve this. Here is what I’ve done: Create a folder “MyCustomAction” under: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES Create these two files in MyCustomAction folder: Feature.xml Elements.xml Place the below content in the…
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