Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Couple of times, I had to get the service application’s status prior performing activities such as: Stop and Start the service, Monitoring service application’s availability, etc. Here is how we can check if the service application is running / created using PowerShell. PowerShell script to check service application’s status: This script gives…
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PowerShell Script to Create a New Task in SharePoint Task List: and here is the new task created in SharePoint 2016 task list:
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Audit log reports in SharePoint used to track how your SharePoint site contents are being used or to meet any legal compliance requirements. Let’s see how to enable auditing feature in SharePoint 2013. Enable Audit Log Feature in Central Administration: SharePoint 2013 audit settings needs to be enabled starting from the Central…
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Requirement: Move SharePoint web application’s IIS physical location from system drive (c:\) to application drive (d:\) due to new server support policies! Solution: SharePoint web applications, by default placed under: “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories” when we create them. There is no UI/direct way to change the physical location of SharePoint IIS web sites later. However,…
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When content approval is turned-ON, approving items one by one could be hectic. To bulk approve items, We can utilize PowerShell. Here is my PowerShell script to bulk approve items pending for content approval. This was a huge time savor for me during a migration project. PowerShell script to approve List items…
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Requirement: Add Date and Time Column to SharePoint list using PowerShell. PowerShell Script to add Date time Column to SharePoint list: This Adds a new field. Set Date Time Column Settings using PowerShell: While the above code adds a new field to a given list, there are additional settings on the column…
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Requirement: Send E-mail from PowerShell script with HTML formatted body. Solution: Here is an example for sending E-mail as HTML from PowerShell script with Send-MailMessge cmdlet: and the output: Instead of directly embedding the HTML into the script, you can also store it in an external file and retrieve the HTML format/template…
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Problem: InfoPath form based list form in a migrated SharePoint 2013 environment from SharePoint 2010 gave this error message: “The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server state service” Solution: Create a State Service Application as in: How to Create State Service Application…
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Requirement: Set Default value for Hyperlink or Picture Column in SharePoint List There is no provision for specifying default value in Hyperlink or Picture type columns in SharePoint! In some scenarios, we may want to specify SharePoint 2010/2013 hyperlink column default value. But there is no option in SharePoint web UI to…
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Problem:When we add a lookup column to any SharePoint list, it appears with the link to the parent item in SharePoint list views. Quite often, the end-user clicks on the lookup link and edits the parent lookup item by mistake – People get confused about which link to click. So we wanted…
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