How to Remove Column from View in SharePoint? Browse to your list or library in SharePoint >> Click on the List or Library tab from ribbon. Click on "Modify View" button under "Manage Views" group. In Edit View page, uncheck the column(s) you wish to remove from the …
What is Content Type Hub SharePoint 2013? Content Type Hub is a centralized repository of SharePoint Content types where we can manage and publish content types. Any Web application that subscribed to this content type hub can consume content types from this store. Content type hub is associated…
What is Cascading drop downs? Well, Cascading drop downs are linked drop down controls where the content of the second drop down depends on the selection of the first one. E.g. When you Choose Country in the first drop down, the second drop down State is automatically filtered to the list of stat…
The Word Automation Services Service Application provides developers a way to perform server-side conversion of documents that are supported by Microsoft Word (such as .doc, .docx, .rtf, etc) into other formats such as PDF,XPS, RTF, Docx,etc. In other words, Word Automation Services provides the…
SharePoint content databases are the most important artifacts in SharePoint platform as they hold majority of the data. However, at times we may have to delete the content database from SharePoint. Here is how you can utilize PowerShell to delete database: How to delete content database in cent…
Requirement: PowerShell to get and update hyperlink URL field value in SharePoint Here is my PowerShell scripts to get and set hyperlink column values: Get Hyperlink Field Value using PowerShell: Here is how to get URL value of SharePoint hyperlink field using PowerShell Add-PSSnapin M…
Requirement: Get the complete structure of all folders-subfolder-files from a SharePoint document library and export to CSV file. PowerShell Script to Iterate through each folder and Sub-folder and get all files: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Fu…
Requirement: Add a Managed Metadata Column to SharePoint List using PowerShell. PowerShell Script to Add Managed Metadata Column in SharePoint List Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Variables $WebURL="https://portal.crescent.com/sites/Sales/&qu…
Problem: After applying a service pack, Ran SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard. It failed with this error message: " An exception of type microsoft.sharepoint.postsetupconfiguration.postsetupconfigurationtaskexception was thrown. additional exception information: Failed to upgrade Sha…
SharePoint Products Configuration Failed: Unable to create a Service Connection Point in the current Active Directory domain. Verify that the SharePoint container exists in the current domain and that you have rights to write to it.
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November 17, 2015
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So the previous SharePoint administrator left without documenting passwords from SharePoint secure store Service? Unfortunately, There is no way to get stored user name, passwords from SharePoint secure store service from Central Administration site. No worries, Lets use PowerShell to decrypt…
Problem: After changing web application properties from SharePoint central administration site to support "anonymous access", sites started giving this error message: Another component has already added an HTTPSessionState to the Context. Please make sure only one session state module …
Another component has already added an HTTPSessionState to the Context. Please make sure only one session state module should be registered
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November 14, 2015
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Problem: SharePoint 2013 Health analyzer logged this error - People Search relevance is not optimized when the Active Directory has errors in the manager reporting structure. Also in Windows Event Viewer, from MSSQL$SHAREPOINT Source, "An exception occurred while enqueuing a message in …
People Search relevance is not optimized when the Active Directory has errors in the manager reporting structure - SharePoint 2013 Health analyzer error
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November 14, 2015
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Requirement: After deploying a new master page as part of new branding, We wanted to delete the old master page from all SharePoint sites. As we've applied the new master page, we don't want our existing custom master page to be appear in the master page gallery and master page selectio…
How to Add Attachment to a SharePoint List Item? To add attachment to SharePoint list item, Navigate to the list, select a list item Click on "Attach File" button from the "Items" tab of the ribbon. Browse and select the file to attach. Click OK to attach the file to it…
Problem: While trying to create a new web application from SharePoint 2013 central administration site, It gave this error message: Sorry, something went wrong The password supplied with the username Domain\Username was not correct. Verify that it was entered correctly and try again. Root…
The password supplied with the username Domain\Username was not correct. Verify that it was entered correctly and try again.
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November 07, 2015
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By default, the Distributed cache memory allocation size defaults to a value of 10% of total physical memory when SharePoint Server 2013 installs. The Distributed Cache service uses half of that memory allocation for data storage (also known as cache size, 5% cache size). You can change the memor…
What is Distributed Cache in SharePoint 2013: The SharePoint Distributed Cache service is an additional caching mechanism introduced in SharePoint 2013 to support beyond the options that already exist (such as Object Cache, BLOB Cache, and Page Output Cache) from the earlier versions of SharePo…
SharePoint My Sites are automatically created when the first time users click on the My Content link in welcome menu. However, To promote the usage of SharePoint social, we deiced to pre-create SharePoint My sites for all users. Create Mysite for All Users in SharePoint using PowerShell Add…
Requirement: Enable Microsoft Word documents, Excel Spread sheets and PowerPoint Presentations to open in client applications like Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint instead of opening them in browser directly. Solution: When you configure Office Web Apps (or Microsoft Office Online Server) t…
Requirement: In a SharePoint list, make attachment required field! Solution: While, creating a Document library with metadata columns is one option, requirement is only to make the attachments mandatory in SharePoint list forms. To make attachment mandatory in SharePoint list we can use si…
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