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 Appl…
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 &q…
Requirement: People are moving to different roles, Few left the company from time to time. Access requests are sent to those in that kind. Its 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 …
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, Its a Instinc…
Found SharePoint content databases are growing even when no content was added from user side. I was analyzing SharePoint Database growth, went ahead and generated disk space report from SQL Server Management studio (Right click the database, choose Reports >> Standard Reports >> Dis…
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. Site collec…
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 provide…
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 SharePoint help desk, instead of site owners. So, the requirement is: Update All SharePoint Site's Access request Emails to:…
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#…
Iterate through All SharePoint Web Applications, Site Collections, Sub-sites, Lists and List Items Programmatically
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Received lot of mails from People who read my post Alert Management Web part Mock-up on Alert Management Web Part Solution. So, I created a CodePlex Project to Share! Business Problem: In a Project management site, When new project sites created, Project Manager creates alerts for all team m…
Accidentally found my SharePoint Test environment's web services URLs are exposed in Google as anonymous access! and I was able to access the web services anonymously! Even though SharePoint web services exposed by anonymous access, SharePoint will not allow anyone to do beyond their …
How to check if list exists in SharePoint programmatically? SharePoint 2010 offers TryGetList Method to determine the existence of a List programmatically. TryGetList returns null, if the specified list doesn't exist. SharePoint 2010 check if list exists: using (SPSite site = new SPSite(…
Another code snippet using SharePoint-Web Services. Requirement is: End-User wants to read data from Microsoft Excel (it will be placed at c:\contracts.xls ) and append to SharePoint List (List Name: Contracts) on-demand from his desktop. So the idea is: Lets build a console application, Add a …
Requirement is: When user search from a particular site collection, either the default search result or advanced search result, should get content ONLY from a list of sites. Solution? Search Scopes! Search scopes in SharePoint allows users to narrow down the search results based on conten…
Requirement : Get the site traffic hits count for the past 30 days on each and every File/List/Page/etc stored on a MOSS 2007 site. C# Object Model code to Generate SharePoint hits report: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using Microsoft.S…
Its a best practice to show customized 404 page not found error page for any website when user request for a broken URL or mistyped URLs. SharePoint has no exclusions. By default, SharePoint gives this 404 error screen to the user: So, Its great to have custom 404 Page not found error page …
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