Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
In some cases, I have seen site collection quotas are turned to “Individual Quota” in the database attachment method, even I copied the quota templates before database attachment. All quota settings are lost! I don’t know the cause of this issue and want to apply the site collection quota to existing sites….
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SharePoint site collection administrators have Full rights to all sites within a site collection. Primary site collection administrator and Secondary site collection administrator specified in central administration will automatically become site collection admins. Its also possible to add multiple site collection admins for any SharePoint site collection. How to add a site…
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By default, Wildcard search is not enabled in SharePoint! Say for e.g. If you search for “Script” you will get results for the search query. But if you want to search using partial words (“sc” for “Script”) that aren’t complete, You will not get the search results until you add the wildcard…
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Problem: After a Database attach method of SharePoint migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, all incoming E-mail enabled libraries stopped working! They no longer receive E-mails!! Here is the root cause and fix for SharePoint incoming email stopped working issue. Root Cause: This is because SharePoint stores incoming E-mail configurations on…
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Ever wanted to update SharePoint web part properties programmatically? After a company acquisition, We had to change the company name from a custom web part’s title, throughout the web application. SharePoint update web part properties using PowerShell: Update Web Part Properties in entire Web Application: Say, we want to update all web…
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Site collection administrators are administrators of the site collection with full control to the entire site collection including top-level site and all of its subsites, lists and libraries in the site collection. How to Remove Site Collection Administrator in SharePoint? To remove SharePoint Site Collection Administrator, we use the “Site collection Administrators”…
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SharePoint quota templates enable us to keep the site collections growth in control. It defines the maximum amount of data stored in a site collection and prevents disk fillings! Quota template makes it easier to govern site collections growth by assigning a pre-defined sizing template to them, rather than assigning individual quotas…
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What is Visual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010? Lets understand visual upgrade in SharePoint 2010. In short: It’s a feature introduced in SharePoint 2010 to ease up transition from MOSS 2007 user interface to SharePoint 2010 UI. When sites migrated from MOSS 2007 using database attach method, They will be using the v3…
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SharePoint Central Administration site got deleted from IIS accidentally! It may happen due to a file system got corruption errors. No worries, We can Re-provision SharePoint Central admin site! Let’s provision a SharePoint central administration site using PowerShell. PowerShell Script to provision SharePoint Central Admin site: Open the “SharePoint 2013 Management Shell”…
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Replicating directory changes permission is a requirement to configure User Profile Service Application(UPS) in SharePoint 2010 and for SharePoint 2013. We’ve to grant replicate directory changes permission on a domain to our service account which crawls and syncs AD contracts to SharePoint. Here is the step by step instructions to provide “Replicating…
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