SharePoint Diary

Nintex Workflow Timeout Issue - Solutions

June 25, 2014 Nintex, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

Recently got these timeout related errors in Nintex workflow 2007 with MOSS 2007 environment: "Failed to report workflow progress. Failed to open a connection to a Nintex Workflow content database" "Failed to Start Workflow. Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to c…

Open with Explorer Error: You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. The file cannot be accessed by the system.

June 24, 2014 SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, Troubleshooting

Problem: In a SSL enabled SharePoint 2013 sites, "Open with Explorer" functionality didn't work! additionally, editing documents online did not work. It just opens the file in Temporary internet files folder and updates ONLY the local file but not the one in SharePoint. Open wit…

Remove Theme from Site in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell

June 23, 2014 Branding, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

Requirement: To enforce consistency, We wanted to reset custom themes applied on SharePoint sites by end-users in our SharePoint environment. Solution: Remove theme programmatically using PowerShell! Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Variable $WebApp…

Export SharePoint List Item Version History to Excel using PowerShell

June 23, 2014 CSV, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Version History

I wrote a PowerShell script and C# object model codes to generate SharePoint version history report in SharePoint document version history report , related to that, got a new requirement to export version history to excel. This version history report helps to compare what data is changed, who…

How to Disable Mobile Views in SharePoint 2013?

June 22, 2014 PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

SharePoint 2013's new mobile features are definitely improved a lot from its previous versions. Now it provides support for a variety of mobile devices, Geo-location, Office Web Apps integration, Device Channels, etc. However there are certain shortfalls in SharePoint 2013 mobile view such a…

Fix "The form submission cannot be processed because it exceeded the maximum length allowed by the web administrator." Error in SharePoint 2013

June 22, 2014 Central Administration, Known Issues, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

Getting "The form submission cannot be processed because it exceeded the maximum length allowed by the web administrator. Please resubmit the form with less data" error in SharePoint 2013 when trying to upload a file? Root cause: By default, SharePoint 2013 web applications have limi…

How to Enable Chart Web Part in SharePoint 2013?

June 17, 2014 SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Tips and Tricks

As per Microsoft, Chart web part in SharePoint 2013 has been discontinued, So, chart web part will be missing! Of course there are many 3rd party products available to bring Chart functionality in SharePoint 2013, is it possible to resurrect the same old chart Web part in SharePoint 2013? Yes! We…

Add Alternate Access Mapping URL to Host Named Site Collection Zone

June 17, 2014 Host-named Site Collection, PowerShell, SharePoint

Requirement: Add new URL to Host named site collections alternate access mappings. In a SharePoint hosting Web application, once sites are provisioned from hosting control panel, We got to manually add a internet zone URL with "https" to make it available over Internet. Host named …

SharePoint 2013 Error: Unexpected response from server. The status code of response is '500'. The status text of response is 'System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException'.

June 16, 2014 Known Issues, Search, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013 Search returned an error: Unexpected response from server. The status code of response is '500'. The status text of response is 'System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException'. In Event logs of SharePoint web front ends, it left an event: System.ServiceModel.…

Move Files Between Document Libraries with Metadata and Version History

June 16, 2014 PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, SharePoint Designer

Requirement: Move Files Between Document Libraries with Metadata and Version History We have a very large document library with more than 100,000 documents which is causing search crawl and latency issues. So, decided to archive old documents into separate document libraries year-wise. Stop: B…

Enable Versioning for All Document Libraries in SharePoint

June 16, 2014 PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Version History

SharePoint versioning feature tracks changes, so that you can View document or item's version history and audit/recover them if needed. How to enable versioning in SharePoint? Version feature is configured at list or library level. So, to enable version history: Go to your document libr…

Remove All Users from SharePoint Site or List with PowerShell

June 14, 2014 Permission, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

Requirement: There is a SharePoint 2013 list lot of user permissions. Wanted to remove all user permissions from that SharePoint list. So tried removing all users, but SharePoint gave " You have chosen to delete too many groups at once. Select fewer groups and try again ." when choosin…

Sync-Update User Display Name from Active Directory to SharePoint using PowerShell

June 12, 2014 Active Directory, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, User Profile

Problem: Discrepancies in User's properties in AD and SharePoint. Say for E.g. User''s display name property updated in Active Directory. But SharePoint still shows the old display name for the user. Solution: Ideally, a proper setup of SharePoint user profile sync should avoid …

Get SharePoint Central Admin URL in PowerShell

June 08, 2014 Central Administration, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

In a PowerShell script writing, I had to get central admin URL of the SharePoint farm. Tried various approaches and found the below to get SharePoint 2010/SharePoint 2013 Central Administration site URL using PowerShell: #sharepoint 2010 powershell get central admin url Get-SPWebApplication -in…

Enable PDF Preview in SharePoint 2013 with Office Web Apps

June 04, 2014 Office Web Apps, Search, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013

PDF preview for SharePoint 2013 integrated with Office web apps isn't enabled by default. Use this below script to enable PDF previews in SharePoint 2013 search results. SharePoint 2013 office web apps PDF preview : Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue…

How to Create Host Named Site Collections in SharePoint 2013?

June 04, 2014 Host-named Site Collection, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

In short, Host-named site collections allows you to have unique URL addresses for each site collection. Say for e.g. Instead of having a typical "Sales" site URL as: http://sharepoint.yourcompany.com/sites/sales , You can have it as http://sales.yourcompany.com and for HR, it can be ht…

Get User E-mail Address from List Item "Created By" using PowerShell

June 03, 2014 C#, PowerShell, SharePoint

For a PowerShell automation work, I had to retrieve the Email ID of the user who has created a particular list item. Here is the nifty PowerShell script to retrieve E-mail ID from created by field: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue #Function to get User…

jQuery Image Rotator for SharePoint

June 03, 2014 jQuery, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

Here is the quick and simple way to implement rotating image slider for SharePoint using jQuery.All you have do is: upload slider images to any SharePoint library and change the image paths in Slider section of the below code and place it in content editor web part or Script editor in SharePoint …

SharePoint Site Detailed Storage Report using PowerShell

June 01, 2014 Admin Reports, CSV, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016

Requirement: Generate a detailed report on all list and library sizes of a SharePoint site. Solution: PowerShell script! Here is the PowerShell script to generate detailed storage information with listing all list and library sizes. #Get Size of all lists and libraries in a SharePoint Site…

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