The filtering process could not be initialized. Verify that the file extension is a known type and is correct

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 Offi…

SharePoint 2013 Image Carousel (Rotating Banner) using Content Search Web Part

SharePoint 2013 brought an excellent web part to get content from search index, called "Content search web part". Using content search web part, We can build a simple image rotator or content slider in few steps. Content Search Web part is available only on SharePoint 2013 enterprise …

Manage My Site Promoted Sites in SharePoint 2013

As the name indicates, SharePoint 2013 promoted sites provides a way to list important sites to the user community. These promoted sites appear under "Sites" section of user's My site. For promoted sites to work, we need user profile service application up and running(Obviously, w…

Change Content Type of Existing Items in SharePoint using PowerShell

Requirement: We've an existing document library with 100's of Sales proposal documents in it. To enforce standardization, sales team created a content type "Sales Proposal". We got a requirement to change content type of all existing documents stored in a particular document li…

Copy Users from One SharePoint Group to Another using PowerShell

Recently, I had a requirement to copy users from one SharePoint group to another group. Unfortunately, SharePoint doesn't support nested groups. 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 eac…

“The server could not complete your request” Error in SharePoint Designer

All of a sudden, SharePoint designer 2013 started giving 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 also. F…

Get List Items from SharePoint View in PowerShell

Requirement: Get all list items from a SharePoint view in PowerShell SharePoint PowerShell to Get Items in List view Here is the PowerShell script example to get list items from a SharePoint view: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Variables $SiteU…

Add New Item to Link List in SharePoint using PowerShell

Here is my PowerShell script to add new item to SharePoint link list: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Custom Function to add new item to SharePoint link list Function Add-LinkListItem($WebURL, $ListName, $LinkURL, $LinkTitle) { try { $…

Create SharePoint Link List using PowerShell

PowerShell script to create Link list in SharePoint: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Function Create-LinkList($WebURL, $ListName, $ListDescription) { try { $ErrorActionPreference ="Stop" #Get the Web $Web = G…

Add stsadm to Path Environment Variable in SharePoint Servers

STSADM is still alive in SharePoint 2013 and in some cases we need to run this command line tool! We've to add STSADM.EXE file's location to "Path" environment variable in SharePoint servers, in order to access stsadm anywhere from command lines and from batch files. Failed to d…

Create Custom Promoted Link Tiles in SharePoint 2013

Promoted links list is one of the new list type (App) introduced out of the box in SharePoint 2013, Its actually a list with a special view which shows the list items as tiles. Here is an example of a SharePoint 2013 team site with promoted links  Metro UI. Obviously, We can create our own Til…

SharePoint 2013 Change Site Logo Programmatically with PowerShell

We can change SharePoint 2013 site logo by going to : Site Settings >> "Title, Description, and Logo" from SharePoint web user interface: Now, Lets change logo for all sites in a site collection through PowerShell to save some time. SharePoint 2013 change site logo programmat…

SharePoint Links List Open in New Window

I explored various methods to make SharePoint link list to open in a new window at SharePoint Link list: Open in a New Window , While the methods discussed in the article are applicable for SharePoint 2013 too, there is a one more: using calculated columns! Let's drill down in detail with Sha…

"New Folder" Option Missing/Disabled in SharePoint List/Library?

So in your SharePoint 2007 List or library not getting "New Folder" option ? or the "New Folder" ribbon button is disabled in SharePoint 2013 or in SharePoint 2010? Well, Here is the fix: Go to List/Library  Settings >> Advanced Settings  Make sure the "Display &…

Fix for SharePoint 2013 Drag and Drop Upload Not Working Issue

One of the cool new feature in SharePoint 2013 is the ability to drag and drop files directly into document libraries.  We had a scenario where it didn't work!  some users were unable to upload files into document libraries by dragging and dropping. They see only "New document" but …