How to Disable Alerts in SharePoint?

Event wanted to disable All the alerts in SharePoint environment? While removing Outgoing Email settings in Central Admin is one option, There is an another-proper way, Here is how: How To Disable Alerts in SharePoint 2007 / 2010 / 2013? To disable alerts for a SharePoint web application, Run this command: stsadm…

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How to Disable Multiple File Upload in SharePoint?

Had to Disable Multiple File Upload in SharePoint to enforce the users to enter mandatory Meta-data. OK, How to Disable Multiple File Upload in SharePoint? Well, If we want to disable the Multiple file upload feature in all SharePoint sites, There are two options available for us: Disable client integration Edit the…

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How to Disable SharePoint Designer in SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007?

How to Disable/Block SharePoint Designer in SharePoint 2010?SharePoint 2010 provides a nice/easy feature to Disable the SharePoint Designer at the web application level. Here is how: Get into: Central Administration >> Application Management >> Manage Web Applications >>  Select the target web app >> Select “SharePoint Designer” from General settings drop down…

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ViewFormPagesLockDown – Restrict Permission to Application Pages in SharePoint

ViewFormPagesLockDown is a SharePoint Feature (not in WSS) that helps us in: Allows anonymous users to only view the Publishing pages, not any of the form or view pages (DispForm.aspx, AllItems.aspx) Disallows anonymous access to pages in the _layouts directory that inherit from LayoutsPageBase. By default, all publishing sites have the feature…

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How to use PowerShell with MOSS 2007?

PowerShell has become a more widely used platform to administer and automate common administrative tasks. Can we use PowerShell with SharePoint 2007? Because I was told PowerShell cmdlets (like Get-SPWeb, Get-SPSite, etc.) are designed for SharePoint 2010.  Can we use PowerShell for SharePoint 2007? Of course, You can! As PowerShell allows us to use .NET…

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Event ID 6398 and 5586 in SharePoint – Resolution

In a SharePoint Implementation, after provisioning Search Service application, Event log gets filled by these two events every minute: 6398 and 5586. Event ID: 5586.    Unknown SQL Exception 2812 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below. Could not find stored procedure ‘dbo.Search_GetRecentStats’. Event ID: 6398 The Execute method…

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‘Feature {Guid} for list template ‘template id’ is not installed in this farm. The operation could not be completed’

We received the below Error in Site Manager page in Some sites. Here is the RCA and resolution: Root cause: We have installed some third party products, which internally created its Templates(List template, Document Library template, etc) ,we removed those third party products and the objects created with their template are broken…

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List Aggregation/Rollup in SharePoint – Third Party Products

There are many third-party products are available to achieve List Aggregation or Roll-up in SharePoint. Here is the comparison table in my View:  Feature Bamboo solutions  SharePoint Boost URL: https://bamboosolutions.com/sharepoint/web-parts/list-rollup/ https://www.boostsolutions.com/listcollection.html Export to Excel/PDF No No Across Sites and Site Collections Yes No. ONLY within Site collection! Cross-Site collection/Sub-sites Yes Yes Filtering/Sorting…

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Redirect Users to Thank You page from NewForm.aspx after form submission

Requirement: Redirect to a page after adding a new item to a list. Here is my requirement: I have a SharePoint request tracking system. When users create a new entry, what I want is to redirect them to “Thank you! We have received your request. We will get back to you on…

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