Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
While creating a web application, by mistake selected “Windows” authentication, and felt we need “Forms” authentication (Claims Based Authentication) because of a business requirement. Went to Central Administration >> Application Management >> Manage Web Applications >> Selected the desired web application >> Authentication Providers. Oops, “Forms” option is disabled! Couldn’t find any…
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Requirement: Hide the contextual “This Site: Site Name” search scope from Search drop down. Solution: 1. Copy the folder OSearchEnhancedFeature from “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\OSearchEnhancedFeature” as “OSearchNoContextScope” 2. Delete the SearchAdminLinks.xml file inside OSearchNoContextScope and remove the reference <ElementManifest Location=”searchadminlinks.xml”/> from Feature.xml 3. Edit the Feature.xml file, Change the Feature…
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Requirement:People are moving to different roles, Few left the company from time to time. Access requests are sent to those of that kind. It’s a problem! We had to monitor the access request configurations to make sure its sent to the relevant person. So, wrote this PowerShell code to generate the report…
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PowerShell ISE is a wonderful tool for creating, Debugging and executing PowerShell scripts. But it doesn’t get installed automatically. Here is how to install PowerShell ISE in Windows 2008 R2. You don’t have to download anything to get PowerShell ISE in Windows 2008 R2, It’s an Instinct feature but not installed by…
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Requirement: Implement a custom page not found error page in SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online: How to Add custom 404 page not found error page SharePoint Online comes with a default “Page not found” error page in the “Pages” library in publishing Sites (https://crescent.sharepoint.com/Pages/PageNotFoundError.aspx) which works automatically when a user hits a non-existent…
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Requirement: Get which site collections resides in which content database. Solution: Simplest method is: Navigate to Central Admin >> Application Management >> View All Site Collections. This will display the content database name of a particular site collection. PowerShell Script to get site collection’s content database: This code outputs the content database…
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By default, SharePoint uses “default.aspx” page as the welcome page (or Home page) in SharePoint 2007 and “SitePages/Home.aspx” in SharePoint 2010. It uses Pages/Home.aspx when publishing feature is enabled under MOSS 2007. If you want to change Home Page: SharePoint provides users an interface to set the welcome page once Publishing feature…
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Some time back, I posted an article on Configuring Access Requests from SharePoint. Now, To take the control, Business decided to give the access control requests to the SharePoint help desk, instead of site owners. So, the requirement is: Update All SharePoint Site’s access request Emails to: SharePoint Help Desk’s Mail id…
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Often in development, we may have to iterate through all web applications, Site collections, sites, Lists and List Items to get some job done or generate reports. Here are the code snippets to help. Iterate Through all web applications, Site collections, Sites, Lists and List Items Using C#: Starting the Loop from…
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Received a lot of emails from people who read my post Alert Management Web part Mock-up on Alert Management Web Part Solution. Business Problem: In a Project management site, When new project sites created, the Project Manager creates alerts for all team members in multiple Lists/Libraries. The pain point is: He needs…
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