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Requirement: On a marketing site, the site owner wanted to rename the “Marketing Members” group name to “Marketing Managers” as it makes more sense to him. How to rename a SharePoint Group? To rename a SharePoint 2013 user group, navigate to: Site settings >> Site permissions >> Pick your target group Click…
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Bar codes are part of SharePoint Information Management Policies (IMP) feature. If you need bar codes for your document, here are the steps to enable bar codes on SharePoint document library. Steps to enable bar code in SharePoint:In SharePoint 2013 (In SharePoint 2007 / SharePoint 2010 too!) enabling barcode is a simple…
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So you are excited by SharePoint 2013’s new features and tend to migrate from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013? Well, this article walks through moving from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 step by step, assuming all necessary migration preparations and planning strategies are done, lets move to the core migration process. Before…
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Requirement: Create a site collection in new database Having a dedicated content database for each site collection is recommended for larger SharePoint site collections. Create a site collection in a new content database in SharePoint using PowerShell: As the Central Administration doesn’t provide any direct interface, let’s use PowerShell cmdlet to create…
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IntroductionBy default, SharePoint 2013 doesn’t come with the SharePoint 2013 workflow engine. We get only SharePoint 2010 workflow platform type in SharePoint Designer 2013. So, we got to manually configure SharePoint 2013 workflows. This implementation guide walks through configuring Workflow Manager 1.0 step by step. Steps summary: Download and install Workflow Manager…
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Office web apps server 2013 allows us to view and edit office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote) directly in browser without needing Microsoft Office installed on Client machine. OWA is considered as LITE version of Microsoft Office Client. This implementation guide walks through step by step on how to install and…
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While extending existing SharePoint web application to change its port is one option, there is an another workaround to change port of SharePoint web applications (Applies to both SharePoint 2010 / SharePoint 2007). How to change SharePoint web application port number? We can change the port of a SharePoint web application, by…
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In continuation with my earlier post: How to Make SharePoint List Column (Form Field) Read Only, There are questions on disabling (or making them read-only) People Picker, Lookup Fields in SharePoint List Forms. Here I’m sharing the jQuery scripts to disable people picker / Lookup fields in SharePoint list forms (NewForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx)….
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Problem: We face some odd issue with SharePoint Designer: SPD shows files checked out already even though they weren’t. While trying to check-in, SPD errored with “Cannot perform this operation. The file is no longer checked out or has been deleted.” Also experienced SharePoint designer crash unexpectedly sometimes and few lists no…
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Recently, There was a requirement to change column types from “Single line of text” to “Multiple Lines of Text” in multiple lists. Needless to say, PowerShell is the most efficient way to get such things done in bulk. Here is the PowerShell Script to change column type in SharePoint programmatically: PowerShell to…
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