Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Problem:Metadata navigation settings in the SharePoint document library is missing! Metadata navigation makes it easier to find and dynamically filter content in large lists and libraries. Once enabled, it uses a navigation tree in the quick launch. Solution: You must activate the “Metadata Navigation and Filtering” Feature from the Site features page!…
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Requirement: We’ve created a custom search scope “Search All Documents” in SharePoint Central Admin and would like to include it in search scope drop downs of few site collections. SharePoint: Add search scope to drop-down Well, it’s a few clicks job to include custom search scopes to search drop down in SharePoint….
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What is inactive Feature in SharePoint? Well, Features which are installed but not activated anywhere! Here is the PowerShell script to find inactive features for SharePoint: Please note: There could be many OOTB features that stay Inactive based on the site template we use. So, use this script to get an insight…
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Task: Generate a report for All Installed/Activated Features for the entire SharePoint Environment. Here are some nifty PowerShell scripts to find features installed on the farm as well as specific features activated on a particular scope. Get-SPFeature cmdlet:Get-SPFeature cmdlet retrieves all features installed on the environment when the “Scope” parameter’s value is…
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Requirement: PowerShell to Import XML to SharePoint List We have a utility from a third-party system that generates project data in XML format. We had to import those data to a list in the PMO site. In other words: We’ve to import from XML file to SharePoint list. Here is a sample…
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My PowerShell scripts to add list item in SharePoint: Add SharePoint list items using PowerShell The syntax to add new list item in SharePoint using PowerShell, goes like this Add list item in SharePoint with PowerShell Lets add new task to the task list using PowerShell: Result: Here is my another article…
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Requirement: Exclude a column from SharePoint search. By default, the SharePoint search engine craws and indexes all documents and their associated metadata properties from lists and libraries. In our case, We keep few fields for configuration in a custom SharePoint application and don’t want those fields to appear in SharePoint Search results….
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Requirement: During a branding project, We had to deploy a logo file every time to all SharePoint servers by individually logging in to them and copy pasting given file to all SharePoint 2013 server’s 15 hive. Wanted to do a bit automation with PowerShell here. Let the PowerShell do Copy-Paste for us….
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Ever wondered how to find the user who has created or modified a particular SharePoint view? and when it was created/modified? Well, There is no SharePoint UI to get these information! But using SharePoint object model, we can retrieve these data programmatically from SPFile object’s properties. Here is how I retrieved “Created…
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Requirement is to find out owners of each SharePoint site collection in the environment.We needed this data to get approvals on critical changes and to inform site owners prior to maintenance windows. Simple! Use STSADM command: On SharePoint 2007 and above, STSADM command can be used to get primary owner details of…
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