Hide “Recent” from SharePoint 2013 Quick Launch Navigation

The recent section gets added automatically through a Web Control on SharePoint pages. ‘Recent’ menu is individual to each user! Meaning everyone gets their own recent section with links to their recent activities! If you have a requirement to remove (or hide) the “Recent” menu header from the left navigation of SharePoint…

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Cancel Workflows in SharePoint using PowerShell

Requirement: There was a large list with workflow attached to it. The SharePoint Development team came with a requirement to cancel multiple workflows running on these list items, nearly 2000! While canceling workflows on an individual item is pretty straightforward, How about canceling workflows on 1000s of items? It would be a…

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Arrange Choice Field Radio Buttons Horizontally in SharePoint List Forms

The requirement is to arrange choice fields of Radio buttons horizontally in a SharePoint 2013 custom list form: How to arrange choice field options Horizontally? Step 1: Create a new Custom list form(Say: New.aspx) using SharePoint Designer, edit the page in SharePoint designer, Find and wrap your choice field in <Span> tag…

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Branding SharePoint 2013 Top Navigation Menu bar with Custom CSS

Branding SharePoint top navigation is one of the frequent requirement in SharePoint implementations. Here is my quick way to apply branding to SharePoint 2013 top navigation menu.  Step 1: Create a custom CSS file with custom styles for your navigation menu (Find my CSS below!). Upload it either to the site assets…

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Manage Access Request Settings in SharePoint

Access request feature allows users to request access to sites and content. Access requests feature is improved in SharePoint 2013. Now, Administrators can keep track of access requests. Enable access request SharePoint 2013 Site owners can enable access requests in SharePoint. To configure access request settings in SharePoint 2013, navigate to: Go…

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Change Regional Settings – Time Zone, Locale in SharePoint with PowerShell

Regional settings in SharePoint 2013 control how locale-specific information, such as Date, Time, Numbers, calendar, etc., are displayed on the site. Internally, SharePoint keeps date-time values in UTC format in the database and presents them to the end-user based on the configured regional settings. SharePoint 2013 regional settings are configured in these…

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How to Delete Subsite in SharePoint using PowerShell?

How to delete a subsite in SharePoint 2013 / 2016? If you’re administering a SharePoint site, there may come a time when you need to delete a subsite. This can be done in just a few easy steps. This blog post will show you how to delete a subsite in SharePoint. We’ll…

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SharePoint Knowledge Transfer Checklist

In a SharePoint architect/administrator’s life, It’s quite a common task to takeover existing SharePoint environments during Job/Role switch. From my experience, Here is the checklist to help ease up documentation for SharePoint: SharePoint  Infrastructure Farm(s) Topology – List of servers and roles, physical and logical architecture diagrams for production, Staging, and Development…

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