Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Getting Visual Studio Just-In-Time Debugger popup window often? here is how to disable it: From the Just-In-Time Debugger pop-up window, select “New instance of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010” and click on the “Yes” button for Do you want to debug using the selected debugger? This opens Visual Studio. Close the error message…
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Problem: Got this error message when trying to change pass-phrase in a SharePoint 2013 farm: Set-SPPassPhrase: Error deploying administration application pool credentials. Another deployment may be active. an object of the type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPMasterPassphraseDeploymentJobDefinition named “Job-admin-passphrase-change” already exists under the parent Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobService named “SPTimerV4”. Rename your object or delete the existing object. Solution:…
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How to remove SharePoint server from farm? As per the Technet article, Remove a server from a farm in SharePoint 2013, Use Add/Remove Programs from “Control Panel” to remove SharePoint 2007/2010/2013 servers from the Farm. Control Panel >> Add/Remove programs >> Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 >> Remove Make sure that the user…
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Ever wanted to change the “SharePoint” branding text in the Suite bar (in top-left position) of the SharePoint 2013 site? Well, You can set the web application’s SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml property with PowerShell/Object model code, to change the text “SharePoint” shown in top left banner of SharePoint 2013 sites. Customizing the SharePoint 2013 suite…
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While its possible to set default values for SharePoint columns in library level at field settings, What if you want to set the default column value of a document based on the folders its saved? SharePoint 2010/2013 provides a new feature to set metadata values based on the location! Tips: In short,…
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It’s a best practice to use Hardware load balancer rather Windows NLB for SharePoint (or any other web applications!) for the following reasons: NLB uses local resources on each server in the cluster – Which means the additional load on SharePoint servers! NLB Cannot detect service outages. It can only detect server…
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To rename a folder in SharePoint 2010, Navigate to the library where the folder exists. Click on “Edit Properties” Provide new name to the folder and click on “Save” button. How rename SharePoint folder programmatically? To rename a folder in SharePoint document library programmatically, using C# object model code: Rename SharePoint Folder…
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Requirement: Backup and restore a SharePoint 2013 list between sites. Solution: While saving a list as template, including its content is one solution, it doesn’t work for lists larger than 50 MB! So, follow below steps to export-import lists in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell. Export a SharePoint list using PowerShell: Use Export-SPWeb…
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Got this error message when trying to save a new list item. SharePoint didn’t allow me to save! “The server was unable to save the form at this time. Please try again.” It also repeated in few more situations like when trying to create new custom list, trying to add new folder,…
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SharePoint 2013 doesn’t offer the handy “Sign-in as different user” feature as in its previous versions under the welcome menu. Not very clear why Microsoft has removed this option, I guess might be due to security/caching problems! Even in MOSS 2007, we had this functionality But sometimes, you may have to log…
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