Enable Multilingual User Interface (MUI) in SharePoint 2010

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…

Restore Deleted Site Collection or Subsite from SharePoint 2010 - SP1 or Later

In SharePoint 2007, There was a wonderful tool from Codeplex: Site Delete Capture http://governance.codeplex.com/ to back up sites automatically when they gets deleted, So that we can restore a deleted site collection in SharePoint 2007. In SharePoint 2010 SP1, Microsoft added native support …

Update Wrong Old URL in SharePoint Alerts on SharePoint Migration or URL Change

After upgrading from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010, existing SharePoint alerts stopped working and only newly created alerts worked!!! We got to Fix Alerts after SharePoint migration, manually. Tried these trial and errors: Tried editing existing alerts, just changed its Name, It worked! Trie…

User Profile Sync not importing AD Users - The management agent "AD-Connection-Name" failed on run profile "DS_FULLIMPORT" because of connectivity issues.

In a SharePoint 2010 installation that I recently worked, got failures in the log when trying o perform User Profile Synchronization. While debugging, in the Event log, There was a clue: The management agent "SharePoint-MyCompany" failed on run profile "DS_FULLIMPORT" becaus…

Extract and Download All Installed Farm Solution Packages (WSP Files) in SharePoint

There were many solution packages installed in my current SharePoint environment. During a server replacement we noticed that the WSP file for a particular solution is missing in TFS! (Our version control repository!) To extract and download all installed solution WSP files, use these PowerShe…

How to Embed and Integrate Youtube Videos in SharePoint Content Editor Web Part

Its a frequently asked question to me, guys asking: "I need to add YouTube videos in my SharePoint  site". In fact it is very simple to implement. So I’m going to walk-through on how to embed YouTube videos in SharePoint, just using content editor web part. 1.    Go to YouTube.com an…