SharePoint 2013 Web Application Creation Stuck at "This shouldn't take long"

Problem: Create new web application from SharePoint 2013 Central Administration site got stuck at "This shouldn't take long" message for long time. Root cause: Insufficient Server memory! Solution: Try closing any open application in the server and free-up server memory. Inc…

SharePoint 2013 Maintenance Window Notifications

In continuation to my earlier post: Site Under Maintenance Page for SharePoint , While the solution serves the purpose perfectly by displaying a typical "Site under maintenance" page during occasions like SharePoint patching, upgrade, etc. wouldn't it be nice to intimate end-users…

Create Clickable Image Maps with SharePoint Designer

Image Maps in HTML defines clickable areas in Images. You can specify a list of areas (or hot spots) that will be used as the links within an image. We can create an image map for any classifications such as frequently accessed items/region/department, etc. Lets see how to create an Image map u…

Get / Set Lookup Field Values in SharePoint List using PowerShell

Here is my PowerShell code snippets to read/write lookup field values in SharePoint lists. Scenario: Consider you have a parent list called "Parent Projects" and child list "Project Milestones". The "Parent Project Name" field from child list is being looked up fro…

Enable/Disable Custom Error by editing Web.Config using PowerShell

To reveal actual errors in SharePoint, we used to turn off custom error page by editing web.config file, located in the root of SharePoint virtual directory. Open the web.config in Notepad Search for "CallStack", Change it from "false" to "true" Search for "…

jQuery Rotating Banner (Carousel/Image Slider) for SharePoint

In continuation to my earlier post Rotating Banner for SharePoint using jQuery , one enhancement requested by people is: The ability to dynamically fetch images from SharePoint library, so that new banner images can be easily added, existing banners can be modified with out touching the banner co…

Find and Delete Orphaned Alerts in SharePoint

Problem Description : In Short - When users leave your organization and removed from Active Directory (AD) they become orphans in SharePoint! Also their alerts!! Why we care about them: To keep SharePoint clean, we've to remove em' from all SharePoint sites. So, I've written a Power…

How to Delete Site with Its Subsites in SharePoint - Quick Way!

Problem:  SharePoint doesn't allow you to delete a site with its sub-sites. In other words You cannot delete SharePoint Subsite which has one or more child subsites. You'll have to individually remove each and every child subsite prior removing parent subsite. Can't delete subsi…

Blocked File Types in SharePoint 2013

Getting " Error: Sorry, something went wrong. The following file(s) has been blocked by the administrator." in SharePoint 2013? Well, This is due to Blocked File Types configuration in SharePoint 2013! What is Blocked File Types in SharePoint 2013: Blocked file types is a security…

How to Add Promoted Search Results using Query Rules in SharePoint 2013?

We can promote search results based on specific search phrase entered by end-users in SharePoint 2013. The promoted results will appear on the top of the search results. As best bets/visual best bets are replaced with "Query Rules" in SharePoint 2013, this is a powerful way to promote s…

Create SSRS Report from SharePoint 2013 List using Report Builder 3.0

Reporting Service integrated with SharePoint provides a rich reporting platform. Lets see how we can create SQL Server reporting services report from SharePoint list data: Create a Library for Reports and add Report Content Type To start with, Lets create a Document Library,  Add Report Build…

How to Create and Deploy SSRS 2012 Reports to SharePoint 2013?

Reporting Services integrated with SharePoint 2013 gives you Rich enterprise reporting features. We've our SQL Server 2012 Reporting services integrated with SharePoint 2013 already. So now we can create reports for SharePoint 2013 using both SQL Server Report Builder 3.0 and using Visual St…