Change SharePoint Site Collection Quota using PowerShell

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 dunno the cause of this issue and want to apply site collection quota to ex…

Add Site Collection Administrators Programmatically/PowerShell in SharePoint

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 multi…

Enable Wildcard Search by Default in SharePoint 2010

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 resul…

Fix Incoming Emails Not Working Issue in SharePoint Migration

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: Thi…

Update Web Part Properties using PowerShell in SharePoint

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:  $Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.…

Remove Site Collection Administrator in SharePoint using PowerShell

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…

Create SharePoint Quota Templates using PowerShell

SharePoint quota templates enables us to keep the site collections growth in control. It defines the maximum amount of data stored in a site collection and prevent from disk fillings! Quota template makes it easier to govern site collections growth by assigning a pre-defined sizing template to th…

SharePoint 2010 Visual Upgrade - FAQs

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, The…

How to Recover Deleted SharePoint Central Admin Site from IIS?

SharePoint Central Administration site got deleted from IIS accidentally! It may happen due to file system got corruption errors. No worries, We can Re-provision SharePoint Central admin site! Lets provision SharePoint central administration site using PowerShell. PowerShell Script to provisio…

Configure Replicating Directory Changes in Windows Server 2008 / 2012

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. …

Site Collection Administrators Report for All SharePoint 2007 Sites

I just had to generate a report to find SharePoint site collection administrators and see who are all assigned with Site collection administrator rights on various site collection in entire SharePoint Farm. Sure, Lets use PowerShell in SharePoint to get site collection administrator programmati…

Fix for SharePoint UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException_Logging Exception

I was trying to write a PowerShell script to retrieve user profile properties in SharePoint 2013, and ended up with the below error: "UserProfileApplicationNotAvailableException_Logging :: UserProfileApplicationProxy.ApplicationProperties ProfilePropertyCache does not have c4a5371c-01c2-428…

SharePoint Site Collection Storage Size - Quota Usage Report using PowerShell

Requirement: Wanted to get a quick storage quota report on SharePoint sites on their allocation vs used space metrics to find out underutilized sites. Solution: PowerShell script to get SharePoint site quota report! If you want to get used storage space for a particular site collection, use…

Run SharePoint 2010 Timer Jobs On-Demand with PowerShell

We may have to run SharePoint timer jobs on-demand in some situations. Say for e.g. To update Rating values, I had to run the timer jobs: User Profile Service Application - Social Rating Synchronization Job and User Profile Service Application - Social Data Maintenance Job. Read more at SharePo…

Activate a SharePoint Feature on All Site Collections using PowerShell

Ever wanted to enable a feature on all site collections in a SharePoint environment? Well, To activate a site collection feature in SharePoint, navigate to Site settings >> Site Collection Features >> Click on "Activate" next to the relevant feature. How to Activate a …

How to Create/Delete SharePoint Groups Programmatically with PowerShell?

Requirement: Create or Delete SharePoint User Groups using PowerShell These PowerShell code snippets helps to Create or Delete SharePoint Groups programmatically using PowerShell: Create SharePoint Group Programmatically with PowerShell: Use this function to create a SharePoint group using…

"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" on Accessing SharePoint Central Admin

Problem: SharePoint 2010 central administration site stopped working after a reboot and gave "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" on trying to access! Troubleshooting: SharePoint central admin page cannot displayed error could be caused since Central Administration ser…

PowerShell Scripts to Manage Choice Field in SharePoint

PowerShell is a handy way to perform tedious and repetitive tasks in SharePoint. Say, we want to add or remove a choice value in a specific choice column for number of sites, etc. Here are some nifty PowerShell scripts to manage choice field in SharePoint. How to Add New Choice Field to Sha…

Apply SharePoint Quota Template Changes to Existing Sites

Problem Scenario:  End-users actively started using their "My Sites" and most of their My sites reached the site collection storage quota limit of 100MB! Gradually started receiving many requests to increase storage limits. Initially, My site web application assigned with "Perso…