Find Active Inactive Site Collections in SharePoint

Some time back, wrote a PowerShell script to find Most active sites(sub-sites) in SharePoint: Find Most Active SharePoint Sites of a Web Application . Now have a similar requirement, but for SharePoint Site collection! Find Active and Inactive SharePoint site collections of a project collaboratio…

Hide Columns in SharePoint List NewForm, EditForm and DispForms

Had a requirement to hide a specific column "Parent Project" in a SharePoint list "Project Metrics", Since this field was being updated by an internal workflow, it must not be visible in NewForm or in EditForm. So to protect a particular column from edits, decided to hide it…

Create Send To Connection with PowerShell

In continuation to my post: SharePoint 2010 Configure Send To Connections , If you want to create send to connections programmatically or have multiple send to connections to create, PowerShell can help to automate it: PowerShell Script to Create Send To Connections: #Get the Web Application…

SharePoint 2010 Configure Send To Connections

In my organization, Program Managers group from multiple departments wanted to collect documents from their department sites to a centralized location for brainstorming. Somehow they heard about/located send to connections in SharePoint! What is Send to connections in SharePoint? Send to conne…

Update a Column Value for All List Items in SharePoint using PowerShell

Requirement is to update a list item in SharePoint using PowerShell. Here are some code scripts to update SharePoint list item using PowerShell script. PowerShell to update a column value for all List items in SharePoint The syntax for updating a specific column value on SharePoint List item g…

Copy SharePoint List or Library between Sites with PowerShell

In a migration project, we had to move few lists and libraries to different site collection. In SharePoint 2010, using granular export, we can export SharePoint lists and libraries from one site to another with SharePoint Central Administration web interface. Once exported we've to use Imp…

Rotating Banner for SharePoint using jQuery

With jQuery we can do lot of user interface enhancements in SharePoint. In this article, I'm exploring one of them: Add rotating banner for SharePoint using jQuery, Let our SharePoint site display moving top banner. Lets start building rotating banner for SharePoint! jQuery Rotating Banner …

Set SharePoint Web Application or Farm to Read Only Mode

During maintenance/migrations, its inevitable to set the entire SharePoint Farm or at least Web Applications to read-only mode for some time. SharePoint doesn't provide any direct ways to set the entire web application or Farm to Read-only mode, but we've these options available to set re…

SharePoint 2010 Search Error: The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service.

After configuring SharePoint search service application, Got this error message when I attempt to do a search: "The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service" I verified search settings, crawl logs and found they are fine. After a while nailed the issue: Search Se…

Configure Diagnostic Logging in SharePoint 2010 - Best Practices, FAQs

What is Diagnostic Logging in SharePoint, By the way? Simple! Diagnostic logging is where SharePoint logs it's own actions. There are two log file locations where SharePoint Diagnostic logging keeps its logs: Windows Event Log - You can view it with "Event Viewer" - The one com…

Create or Delete Managed Path in SharePoint using PowerShell

Managed paths in SharePoint enables us to create a uniform navigational structure to group multiple site collections together. SharePoint Managed Paths can be defined using PowerShell or STSADM command-line tool. Managed paths are explained in my other article: Managed path in SharePoint Crea…

Check Lock Status for All Site Collections in SharePoint

End user came with a compliant: "I'm receiving 'HTTP 403: The Website declined to Show this webpage' in some sites", in an intranet collaboration environment. Ah! This is because: site is locked with "No Access". How to Check Site Lock Status? You can Navigate…

SharePoint Managed Paths Explained

Let me document the Frequently Asked Questions on SharePoint Managed Paths during my training sessions: What is Managed Path in SharePoint? A managed path is a location within a web application in which you can have site collections. When you create a web application, there are two managed pa…