Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
On analyzing SharePoint search crawl logs, found many instances of the error: “The filtering process could not be initialized. Verify that the file extension is a known type and is correct.” Root cause:This is because, SharePoint server 2007 search crawler doesn’t recognize Office 2010 file types (such as .docx, .pptx, .xlsx,etc). Solution:…
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SharePoint 2013 brought an excellent web part to get content from the search index, called “Content search web part”. Using the content search web part, We can build a simple image rotator or the content slider in a few steps. Content Search Web part is available only on SharePoint 2013 enterprise edition!…
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As the name indicates, SharePoint 2013 promoted sites provide a way to list important sites to the user community. These promoted sites appear under the “Sites” section of the user’s My Site. For promoted sites to work, we need user profile service application up and running(Obviously, we need SharePoint server at least,…
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Requirement: We have an existing document library with 100’s of Sales proposal documents in it. To enforce standardization, the sales team created a content type, “Sales Proposal”. We got a requirement to change the content type of all existing documents stored in a particular document library with the default content type “Document”….
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Recently, I had a requirement to copy users from one SharePoint group to another group. Unfortunately, SharePoint doesn’t support nested groups, and simply renaming the group didn’t help us! Well, there is no direct way to copy users from one group to another, but without having to retype each user ID, you…
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All of a sudden, SharePoint designer 2013 started giving an error message, “The server could not complete your request. For more specific information, click the Details button” when tried opening SharePoint 2013 sites. I’ve experienced this error with SharePoint 2010 sites as well. First and foremost, check your server’s event log for…
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Requirement: Get all list items from a SharePoint view in PowerShell PowerShell to Get Items in a SharePoint List view When you are working with SharePoint, there are times when you need to get a list of items from a view, rather than getting all of the items in the list. Whether…
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Are you looking for a quick way to add new items to a SharePoint link list using PowerShell? Let me show you how to use PowerShell to create a new list item in SharePoint: Here is the PowerShell script to add a new item to the SharePoint link list: And the output:
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Requirement: Create Link List in SharePoint using PowerShell Here is the PowerShell script to create a Link list in SharePoint: Refer to the Microsoft documentation for all list template types: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.sharepoint.splisttemplatetype?view=sharepoint-server
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STSADM is still alive in SharePoint 2013, and in some cases, we need to run this command-line tool! We’ve to add the STSADM.EXE file’s location to the “Path” environment variable in SharePoint servers in order to access stsadm anywhere from command lines and batch files. Failed to do so will result in…
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