SharePoint Diary

Never Stop Windows SharePoint Services Web Application

December 21, 2011 Administration, Best Practices, SharePoint, web.config

If you stop the "Windows SharePoint Services Web Application" it will remove all SharePoint websites along with your customizations from IIS!!! So, Until you are very sure what you are doing, Never stop the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application. In case, it happened already the…

Configuring AD LDS-Claims Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010 - Step by Step

December 18, 2011 Active Directory, Administration, Configuration, Deployment Guides, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, web.config

Introduction: SharePoint 2010 provides you with the ability to setup multiple authentication providers, to provide clients or other external parties such as vendors, affiliates etc access to your SharePoint Sites without having to provide them with a Windows Active Directory Account. Thi…

Update all items in a list using Nintex Workflow

December 14, 2011 Nintex Workflow, SharePoint

Recently, I had a requirement to update all items in a List based on other list item's change event. So decided to implement using Nintex workflow. Designed the Nintex workflow as this to update all items in list. Here are the details actions in workflow designer: Query the List to ge…

PowerShell Script to List All the Users from LDAP

December 06, 2011 PowerShell, SharePoint

Wanted to retrieve all the users from a AD LDS based LDAP instance. Code $Dom = "LDAP://<Server-Name>/CN=Users,CN=LDAP,DC=SharePoint,DC=COM" $Root = New-Object DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry $Dom # Create a selector and start searching from the Root of AD $selector = New-Objec…

Update Theme for All Site collections, Sub-Sites in SharePoint

November 11, 2011 Administration, Branding, C#, Object Model, SharePoint, SharePoint Development

Requirement: Update new theme in for All Site collections, Sub-Sites in SharePoint C# code to do that: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using Microsoft.SharePoint; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration; using System.IO; namespace Theme_Update { class…

Archive (Backup and Delete) IIS Logs in SharePoint

November 08, 2011 Administration, Backup/Restore, IIS, PowerShell, SharePoint

IIS logs are the requests from clients, and written into text-based log files. It captures every web page/image/script requests. By default, IIS logs stored in C:\ of WFE servers. If SharePoint is being accessed a lot, It may cause disk space problem for your OS drive so quickly. So we can chang…

Enable Multilingual User Interface (MUI) in SharePoint 2010

October 26, 2011 Administration, Configuration, Deployment Guides, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

Creating a multilingual SharePoint 2010 site is extremely useful when working for global SharePoint deployments. It allows a logged-in user to change the language to one of the supported alternate languages configured. All the standard SharePoint user interface elements are translated with this f…

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