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How to Disable Attachments in SharePoint List?

March 31, 2013 Attachment, SharePoint

Requirement: Disable Attachment in SharePoint List How to Disable Attachments in SharePoint List? If you want to disable attachments for a SharePoint list for whatever reason, head on to List Settings >> Advanced Choose "Disabled" under Attachments section! That's it!…

How to Add Users to SharePoint Site and Grant Permissions?

March 29, 2013 Permission, PowerShell, Security, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Users and Groups

Adding users to SharePoint site is a frequent activity for SharePoint site owners. Users can be added either to any existing SharePoint group or directly under site permissions. Lets see how to add users in SharePoint site. How to Add Users to SharePoint 1. To add users to SharePoint 2010 …

Package and Delpoy Content Types as Feature Based Solutions in SharePoint 2010

March 28, 2013 Content Type, Deployment Guides, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Development

Task: Create a feature based solution package to pack and deploy the content type from DEV environment to STAGING environment in SharePoint 2010. Although SharePoint 2010 supports content type hub, where content types of one site collection can be used by other site collections/web application…

How to Change Central Administration Port in SharePoint?

March 27, 2013 Central Administration, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

Changing Central Administration Port in SharePoint isn't a frequent task, but you may have to do it in some situations: Perhaps during SharePoint installation, the Central Administration Web site may be established with a random port, and you want to change it now. It was assigned with a p…

Set SharePoint Search Settings (Search Center URL, Scope Dropdown Mode) Programmatically

March 26, 2013 C#, Search, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

After migrating SharePoint 2007 sites to SharePoint 2010, we decided to set search center URL to a Enterprise Search center site and scope settings Dropdown mode to use "Show scopes dropdown" for all site collections. To update search center and search scope dropdown settings in Share…

Configuring BLOB Cache in SharePoint

March 26, 2013 Best Practices, Configuration, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, web.config

What is BLOB: BLOB means B inary L arge Ob ject and refers any binary format file that is stored as a single entity and not converted to text. Usually, BLOB files are of type images, audio/video files. What is BLOB Cache: When BLOB types of files are uploaded to a SharePoint site (E.g. Image…

Export-Import Site Columns in SharePoint using PowerShell

March 25, 2013 PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Site Columns

Its a frequent requirement to copy site columns between SharePoint environments, isn't it? Today had a requirement to copy bunch of site columns from development environment to staging environment. We used to package site columns as a WSP Solution package in such requirements: Create Site …

Clicking Document Type Icon does not open document, Selects the Row Instead

March 24, 2013 Known Issues, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010

Issue: SharePoint 2010 clicking type icon does not open document! Clicking Type Icon Selects the Row Instead of Opening the Document!! Fix: Its a known issue! Microsoft released a KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2457975 In short: Copy Paste the below code as a file named: "f…

SharePoint 2010 Content Editor Web Part Hidden property is Disabled

March 20, 2013 Content Editor Web Part, Known Issues, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010

Found a interesting issue today. Wanted to place some CSS code in Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) and hide it, so that it won't appear to end-users. I added a content editor web part, Placed some CSS code, went to web part properties, oops! Hidden property under Layout is disabled (greyed out)…

"There has been an error creating the personal site. Contact your site administrator for more information" - SharePoint My Site Creation Error

March 20, 2013 Errors, Managed Path, My Site, SharePoint

When end-user tries to create My sites by clicking "My Content" link for the first time, They encountered this error message: "There has been an error creating the personal site. Contact your site administrator for more information" Troubleshooting: 1. Make sure User Pr…

Show Quick Launch in SharePoint 2010 Web Part Pages

March 18, 2013 Known Issues, Navigation, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

By default, SharePoint 2010 Web part pages don't have quick launch navigation! Web part page missing quick launch in SharePoint 2010. show quick launch in SharePoint web part page Show quick launch SharePoint 2010 web part page: We can bring it by editing web part page. Just Edit the w…

How to Connect to a Specific Web Front End Server in SharePoint Farm?

March 16, 2013 Administration, SharePoint, Tips and Tricks

A typical SharePoint farm may contain more than one web front end servers - load balanced. When you hit the SharePoint site URL, say: http://portal.crescent.com , it hits the load balancer first. Load balancer decides to which web front end server this request needs to be transferred based on ser…

Add a User to Owner Group of All SharePoint Sites using PowerShell

March 16, 2013 Permission, PowerShell, Security, SharePoint, Users and Groups

Requirement: Add user to Owner Group of All SharePoint site collections using PowerShell! We've site collections grouped by managed paths such as "Teams", "Projects". Got a requirement to add a user to Owner/Members group of all sites under a particular managed path. …

Create Web Application in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell

March 15, 2013 PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Web Application

A web application in SharePoint acts as a container for one or more site collections. Web applications provide the link to the corresponding web site in IIS and to specific content databases in SQL Server for the storage of site collections and associated content. How to Create a Web Applicatio…

Remove All Users from SharePoint Group using PowerShell

March 14, 2013 Permission, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Users and Groups

Requirement: SharePoint Remove all users from group SharePoint PowerShell to remove all users from group: PowerShell script to remove all user from a SharePoint group programmatically: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Site collection URL $SiteUrl=&…

How to Edit SharePoint Survey "All Responses" View?

March 13, 2013 SharePoint, Survey, Tips and Tricks

By default, SharePoint Survey's "All Responses" view shows "View Response", "Created By", "Modified", "Completed" columns. There was a requirement to add one of the Survey answer to the view for easier categorization and filter. Unfortunately,…

Create a Scheduled Task for PowerShell Script with Windows Task Scheduler

March 12, 2013 Administration, PowerShell, SharePoint, Windows Server

PowerShell is really a game changer for repeatable processes, isn't it? We've a PowerShell script to generate report on SharePoint content databases size growth SharePoint Content Databases Size - Storage Report , We used to run it on first day of every Month on SharePoint server to gener…

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