Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
SharePoint 2016 IT preview has been released! Cloud-first infrastructure, Large file support (10 GB!), Durable links, Zero downtime on patching, App launcher, Cloud hybrid search are some of the new exciting features!! You can download the SharePoint 2016 IT Preview at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51493 As per Microsoft, SharePoint Server 2016 will become available in…
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Problem:The datasheet view in SharePoint 2010 did not work with the message “The Standard View of your list is being displayed because your browser does not support running ActiveX controls.” in IE11 browser! Solution: Add SharePoint site to compatibility view settings in your IE-11 browser. Furthermore, check the “Display intranet sites in…
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Requirement: Update a Calculated Field’s formula for a specific column of a list across the entire site collection. PowerShell to update calculated field formula in SharePoint: This updates the site column’s formula for all subsites in the site collection. The same code can be used for List level formulas as well. PowerShell…
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Requirement: Generate a report to get the Inventory of all web parts in use, in a SharePoint site collection. PowerShell script to generate web parts in use in a site collection: This script gets all web parts in a site collection and generates a report in CSV format. How to find a…
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Self-Signed certificates provide encryption between the two ends. Technically, self-signed certificates are signed with their own private key. Often they are used in ADFS configuration. We may also have to use self-signed certificates in DEV-Test environments and for evaluations purposes. Let’s see how to create a self-signed certificate using IIS. Never use…
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Problem: I was trying to map Master Page Gallery as a network drive from Windows Server 2008 R2 but got this error message: “Network Error: Windows cannot access <URL>. Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to identify and resolve network problems,…
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Get Current User Account Name, E-Mail in JavaScript Client Object ModelYou can use this code in Content Editor/Script editor or anywhere in SharePoint artifacts like Pages, Page Layouts, Master pages, or external JavaScript files.
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Are you looking for a way to get an inventory of all lists and libraries in your SharePoint Online site? This can be helpful for auditing or simply getting an overview of what is on your site. In this article, we’ll show you how to use PowerShell to get detailed information about…
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ULS logs are unavoidable in SharePoint administration and support. This post describes the basic usage of ULS log viewer to reveal actual error messages in SharePoint 2013/2016 environment. Scenario: You got an E-mail from an end-user saying: They received a typical “An unexpected error has occurred.” page with some GUID, timestamp, etc….
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Requirement: We have an announcement list in the Top-level site of a SharePoint 2013 site collection and wanted it to appear on each subsite! Solution: Requirements to show Lists/Libraries from Root site to Sub-site or Sub-site to Root site are quite common. In short, the solution idea is: Export the List view…
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