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 few steps. Content Search Web part is available only on SharePoint 2013 enterprise edition! Step…
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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, we need SharePoint server at least, as UPA…
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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 library with the default content type “Document”. In other words,…
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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. 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 IDs, you can…
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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 also. First and foremost, check your server’s event log for potential…
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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:
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Here is my PowerShell script to add new item to SharePoint link list: And the output:
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PowerShell script to create Link list in SharePoint: Refer 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 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 do so will result in…
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