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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 then you have to apply ALL your IIS manual customizations (including Web.config changes, Certificates, IIS Manual changes, etc). This is why Microsoft says "Don't touch IIS". If you Must restart it, then Take the Backup of IIS Metabase and do it.

Never Stop Windows SharePoint Services Web Application

Reviewed by Unknown on December 21, 2011 Rating: 5

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. This article walks through with step by step instructions on how this can be easily achieved using Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS). Summary: Executing this implementation guide will help in: Setting up CBA (Claims based authentication) with AD LDS in SharePoint 2010 extranet environment. Overview: 1. Adding AD LDS Server Role a. Creating AD LDS Instance b. Validate AD LDS instance is running c. Un-Install the AD LDS Instance 2. Connecting to AD LDS Server using ADSI Edit a. Adding a User Object & Setting Mandatory user properties & password

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

Reviewed by Unknown on December 18, 2011 Rating: 5

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 get all items: Apply For-Each to loop thru the list items: Update the list items: So simple! isn't it?

Update all items in a list using Nintex Workflow

Reviewed by Unknown on December 14, 2011 Rating: 5

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-Object DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher $selector.SearchRoot = $root # Filter the users with -like "CN=Person*". Note the ForEach loop $adobj= $selector.findall() | where { $_.properties.objectcategory -like "CN=Person*" } foreach ($person in $adobj) { $prop=$person.properties Write-host "First name: $($prop.givenname) Surname: $($prop.sn) User: $($prop.cn)" } Write-host "There are $($adobj.count) users in the $($root.name) domain" read-host

PowerShell Script to List All the Users from LDAP

Reviewed by Unknown on December 06, 2011 Rating: 5

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 Theme_Update { static void Main(string[] args) { string site; try { if (args.Length == 0) { Console.WriteLine("Enter the Web Application URL:"); site = Console.ReadLine(); } else { site = args[0]; } SPSite tmpRoot = new SPSite(site); SPSiteCollection tmpRootColl = tmpRoot.WebApplication.Sites; //Enumerate through each site foreach (SPSite tmpSite in tmpRootColl) { //Enumerate

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

Reviewed by Unknown on November 11, 2011 Rating: 5

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 change this log path. Here is how: Go into IIS Manager for each WFE. (Start > run > Inetmgr) select the server name in the Connections panel on the left. In the Features view shown in the middle panel, select Logging. For the log file, change the directory to a more suitable drive and folder. For example, I’ve changed the path for the log files to D:\Logs\IIS. How about backing up them Monthly and deleting old logs? Its a good idea to backup and clean IIS Logs every Month. These Logs are highly compressible up to 500%!!! (Meaning 500 MB file to 5MB file). Steps: 1. Download and import the PowerShell community Extension (for write-zip cmd-let) 2. Write the script to Zip and Delete

Archive (Backup and Delete) IIS Logs in SharePoint

Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on November 08, 2011 Rating: 5

Enable Multilingual User Interface (MUI) in SharePoint 2010

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

Creating multilingual SharePoint 2010 site is extremely useful when working for global SharePoint deployments. It allows a logged on user to change the language to one of the supported alternate languages configured. All the standard SharePoint user interface elements are translated with this feature. Like: Ribbons Site Settings Page Site Actions Menus Lists and Site Column headers Quick Launch Menu Certain Messages displayed in out of the box webparts Please note: when you switch the language via MUI selector it only translates UI elements, content in the site is not translated. You can use Variations to change the content. More info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262055.aspx#Section4 Follow these steps to enable multilingual sharepoint 2010 sites Step 1: Download and Install the appropriate Language pack Multilingual support for SharePoint 2010 is provided via language packs. Download and install the desired SharePoint Foudation &a

Enable Multilingual User Interface (MUI) in SharePoint 2010