Create Enterprise Search Center in SharePoint using PowerShell

April 30, 2016    , , , ,
What is sharepoint S earch Center in SharePoint? Search Center site in SharePoint provides an interface for users to submit search queries and get search results similar to any other search engine. A Search Center site is typically a top-level site of a site collection that provides central search facility. How to Create Search Center Site Collection? Creating search center is quite straight forward. Key it: Select Search Center template while creating site collection / subsite to create search center in sharepoint 2013. You can create a search center either with Enterprise Search Center template or Basic Search Center template. Basic Search Center vs Enterprise Search Center: The difference between Enterprise Search Center template and the Basic Search Center template is the ability to customize user experience. In an Enterprise Search Center, you can create your own site pages; whereas, in a Basic Search Center, Search results are displayed on a system page where we can
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Create Enterprise Search Center in SharePoint using PowerShell Create Enterprise Search Center in SharePoint using PowerShell Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on April 30, 2016 Rating: 5

SharePoint Online: Add User to Group using PowerShell

April 29, 2016    , , , , ,
Requirement: SharePoint Online PowerShell to Add User to Group How to add user to existing groups in SharePoint Online? Each SharePoint Online site comes with a default set of SharePoint groups, such as Owners, Members and Visitors. You can add users to these groups, so that you can manage group permissions in a single place instead of managing each individual user. Creating SharePoint groups with custom permission levels also possible. Login to SharePoint online site >> Click on Site Settings >> Under Site Settings page, in the Users And Permissions section, click on "Site Permissions" link. On the Permissions page, click on "Grant Permissions" button in the ribbon from Permissions tab. In the Share dialog box, enter name / email addresses Click on "Hide Options" link button. In the Select A Group Or Permission Level list box, select the appropriate group name such as "Members" Click Share button. Alternatively, You ca
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Site Owners with Full Control Could not Access or Edit SharePoint Group

April 23, 2016    , , , , , ,
Problem: Site Owners with full control couldn't access or edit member of a group. Root cause: By default, only SharePoint group owners can add/remove members of the group, even though you have full control access rights to the site - This is by design! Solution: Change the group owner! You can either Add a person to "Group Owner" or set group owner to "Site Owners" group (recommended), so that any member of site owners group can add-remove members to the group. Alternatively, You can change group settings to allow members of the group to change group membership.  (but not recommended!). Under the group settings, set "Who can edit the membership of the group?"  to "Group Members". You do not have permission to view the membership of the group In some cases, users may encounter "You do not have permission to view the membership of the group." message on trying to access the group. To fix this issue, under group settings,
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Site Owners with Full Control Could not Access or Edit SharePoint Group Site Owners with Full Control Could not Access or Edit SharePoint Group Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on April 23, 2016 Rating: 5

How to Change SharePoint Group Owner using PowerShell?

April 23, 2016    , , , , ,
Change group owner in SharePoint site: Follow these steps to update SharePoint group owner in SharePoint. Go to Site Settings >>  People and Groups Pick the group you want from the Left navigation From the group page, Click on Settings >> Group Settings >> Set the new group owner in "Group Owner" field. Hit OK to save your changes. This changes owner of the group. Changing the group owner from SharePoint web user interface is quite simple. But At times, you may have to replace an existing group owner with a new user across multiple site collections. Ideally, we have to leverage PowerShell for these kinds of admin tasks. Let's change SharePoint group owner via PowerShell. How to Change SharePoint Group Owner using PowerShell? Here is the SharePoint PowerShell to update group owner. You need to have either Farm Admin or Site collection Administrator permissions to change owner of the group . Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -Error
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How to Change SharePoint Group Owner using PowerShell? How to Change SharePoint Group Owner using PowerShell? Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on April 23, 2016 Rating: 5

SharePoint Group Owner Cannot Add User! Gets Acces Denied

April 23, 2016    , , , , , ,
Problem:   SharePoint group owner cannot add user! group owner gets access denied. Root cause: Its a common misconception that group owners get access automatically as you made them owner of the group! Just because you made someone as "Group Owner" doesn't mean they get access to the site! They can't access the site, until unless you actually grant permission to that group owner user. And its also true that group owner can't add/remove users unless they have "Manage Permissions" rights! Solution: So, the solution is grant permission to the user by adding them to appropriate SharePoint Group or to the Active directory group which has access to the site already! This gets them the access to the site. And to add other users to the group, the group owner should have permission level consists of permission "Manage Permission" (such as "Full Control"). Tags : sharepoint group owner cannot add user, sharepoint 2010 group owner acce
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SharePoint Group Owner Cannot Add User! Gets Acces Denied SharePoint Group Owner Cannot Add User! Gets Acces Denied Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on April 23, 2016 Rating: 5

SharePoint Online: Delete Content Type using PowerShell

April 20, 2016    , , , ,
Requirement : SharePoint Online Delete Content Type from site. How to delete content type in SharePoint Online? Content types which are not used by lists or libraries can be deleted. To delete a content type in SharePoint Online, follow these steps: Login to your SharePoint online site >> Click on Site settings gear >> Site Settings  In the Site settings page, Click on "Site Content Types" under  Under Site Content Types page, Click on the name of your content type you wish to delete.  Click on "Delete this site content type " link and confirm the prompt once. Delete Content Type using PowerShell in SharePoint Online: Here is the PowerShell to delete content type in SharePoint Online. #Load SharePoint CSOM Assemblies Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll" Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extension
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SharePoint Online: Delete Content Type using PowerShell SharePoint Online: Delete Content Type using PowerShell Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on April 20, 2016 Rating: 5

How to Add User to SharePoint Group using PowerShell?

April 17, 2016    , , , , , ,
Requirement: Add User to SharePoint group using PowerShell How to add user to group in SharePoint 2013? From SharePoint site, you can follow below steps to add a user to particular group. Go to your SharePoint site and click on Site Settings gear icon >> Select "Site settings" Click on "People and groups" link under "Users and Permissions" Click on the SharePoint user group to which you want to add users, such as "Marketing Members" Click on "New" button >> and select "Add Users". Enter the names of the users to add. Make sure all your entries are resolved. Click on "Share" button to to complete add user to SharePoint group. The users you have entered are now part of the SharePoint group! By default, new users receive an email notification. We can customize the email message text. Also we can choose not to send an email by clicking Show Options and clearing the Send an email invitation ch
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How to Add User to SharePoint Group using PowerShell? How to Add User to SharePoint Group using PowerShell? Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on April 17, 2016 Rating: 5

How to Upload List Template in SharePoint 2013?

April 16, 2016    , , , ,
Requirement: Upload a list template in SharePoint 2013! SharePoint 2013 offers many list templates such as Task List, contacts, calendar, etc to create clones. At times, You may have to import a custom list template obtained from other sites into your SharePoint. How to upload a list template in SharePoint 2013: SharePoint list templates are XML-based definition of list settings, such as List fields, List views and optionally list items. List templates are stored as.stp files. To upload a list template in SharePoint, follow these steps: Navigate to your Site collection. Click on "Site Settings" gear icon >> Choose "Site Settings". Click on List Templates link under Web Designer Galleries From List Templates library, Click on "Upload Document" button from Files Tab Browse and Select your List template STP File and Click "OK" to upload the list template to SharePoint Provide a Name and Title to the template, Optionally the des
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How to Upload List Template in SharePoint 2013? How to Upload List Template in SharePoint 2013? Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on April 16, 2016 Rating: 5

SharePoint 2016 Installation Guide - Step by Step

April 13, 2016    , , ,
SharePoint 2016 is in RTM finally with all new features. Lets walk-through SharePoint 2016 standalone installation process step by step: System Requirements: What's my Server Farm Configuration? Here is my SharePoint 2016 farm's server configuration (Hardware/software). Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard as Server Operating system and SQL Server 2014 Standard SP1 as my SQL Server instance.  All my servers running with 24 GB of RAM (minimum requirement: 16 GB. For single server installation: 24 GB) and Quad core processors. (64 bit of course!) and 120 GB in system drive and 250 GB as secondary drive (Min: 80 GB for system drive and 100 GB for applications). Service Accounts: For the sake of sharepoint 2016 standalone installation (single server), I'm using these two service accounts. Crescent\SP16_Setup - Setup  account used for installation. You must manually assign Member of Local Administrator group on all SharePoint Servers and SQL server and SysAdmin role at S
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InfoPath Form: Show Thank You Page on Submit

April 11, 2016    , ,
Requirement: To deliver better user experience, wanted to show a neatly designed thank you page on submitting a customized SharePoint list form in InfoPath. Although we can customize the standard popup message shown on successfully submissions through "Submit Options" under Data tab, we wanted to customize the entire look and feel. Solution: The idea is: Create a new view for Thank you page and then change the view after submitting data. Here is how to implement thank you page for InfoPath forms. Open your form template in InfoPath Form Designer Click on "Page Design" tab and create new view. Give a name to your view (say: ThankYou), and place image/text appropriately. Here is mine: Create a button for "Submit". From the ribbon select "Manage Rules". In the "submit" button's Rules, Add >> and then Action. Submit using Data connections Switch to view: ThankYou That's all! Now we let the end-user to know,
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SharePoint Online: How to Hide Columns from List using PowerShell?

April 08, 2016    , , , , , ,
Requirement: SharePoint Online PowerShell to Hide Field In a project request list, when user fills the form we wanted to hide the "Status" column by default and then have a workflow to populate status of the particular request. Similarly, for Edit column as well, but show it only on View form. So, How to hide column from SharePoint online list? SharePoint Online Hide Column from list using PowerShell: Here is the PowerShell script to hide list columns from SharePoint Online list. #Load SharePoint CSOM Assemblies Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.dll" Add-Type -Path "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\16\ISAPI\Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime.dll" #Config Parameters $SiteURL= "https://crescent.sharepoint.com/sites/prjects/" $ListName="ProjectRequest" $FieldName = "Status" #Display Name #Setup C
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SharePoint Online: How to Hide Columns from List using PowerShell? SharePoint Online: How to Hide Columns from List using PowerShell? Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on April 08, 2016 Rating: 5

Enable "Link to Item" or "Edit Menu" on Any Column of the List in SharePoint

April 05, 2016    , , , , ,
Requirement: There is a list called "Projects" where the default title filed made hidden and now the problem is: User wants to have the link to View Item on "Project Name" Field. By default "Title" field of the list has link to item and edit menu options in it. If you want to change link to item or edit menu options on any other column of the list - There is no option! Solution: How to change link to item field in SharePoint? To enable link to item and/or edit menu options on any of the SharePoint list column, follow below steps: Open your List view page in SharePoint Designer using "Edit File in Advanced Mode" Search for <ViewFields> Tag. Pick the appropriate field to have link to item functionality Add: LinkToItem="TRUE" to it. If you want to have Edit Menu, then add: ListItemMenu="TRUE" or you can add both.E.g. <FieldRef Name="ProjectName" LinkToItem="TRUE" ListItemMenu="TRUE&
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Enable "Link to Item" or "Edit Menu" on Any Column of the List in SharePoint Enable "Link to Item" or "Edit Menu" on Any Column of the List in SharePoint Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on April 05, 2016 Rating: 5

Get List Fields in SharePoint using PowerShell

April 03, 2016    , , ,
Requirement: Get all Fields from a SharePoint list using PowerShell. PowerShell Script to get all List Fields, Internal Name and Field types: Let's get internal name of SharePoint list columns using PowerShell. Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Configuration Parameters $SiteURL="http://intranet.crescent.com/" $ListName= "Quick Links" #Get the List $List = (Get-SPWeb $SiteURL).Lists.TryGetList($ListName) Write-Host "Field Name | Internal Name | Type" Write-Host "------------------------------------" #Loop through each field in the list and get the Field Title, Internal Name and Type ForEach ($Field in $List.Fields) { Write-Host $Field.Title"|"$Field.internalName"|"$Field.Type } This PowerShell script gets all column names, internal name and column types from the given SharePoint list! PowerShell to Export List Fields to a CSV File: Lets export all fields of a lis
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Get List Fields in SharePoint using PowerShell Get List Fields in SharePoint using PowerShell Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on April 03, 2016 Rating: 5

SharePoint Online: How to Create a Group using PowerShell?

April 02, 2016    , , , ,
A SharePoint group is a container of users who share similar set of permissions. SharePoint groups provides convenient way to manage security as a group centrally rather managing individual users. We can organize users into groups (up to 5,000) and set permissions to the group at site level and then use it in any underlying objects like sub-sites, lists and list items. By default, SharePoint creates three user groups upon site creation: Owners, Members and visitors and you need to be a site owner/site collection admin to grant permissions to the group. How to Create a Group in SharePoint Online? SharePoint Online groups can be created to meet custom security requirements. Here is how to create SharePoint Online group: Navigate to your SharePoint online site, Click on Site Settings gear icon and then select Site Settings >> From the Site settings page, click Site Permissions in the Users And Permissions section. From the Permissions page, click on Create Group icon from
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SharePoint Online: How to Create a Group using PowerShell? SharePoint Online: How to Create a Group using PowerShell? Reviewed by Salaudeen Rajack on April 02, 2016 Rating: 5
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