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Requirement: Export SharePoint list data to SQL Server table. For an in-house built business intelligence tool, We had a requirement to export SharePoint list data into an SQL Server table. As directly querying SharePoint content databases is not supported by Microsoft, it could also cause performance issues to your SharePoint farm –…
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Requirement: Empty recycle bin in SharePoint Online using PowerShell. How to Empty the Recycle Bin in SharePoint Online? The Recycle bin capability in SharePoint Online is used to retain deleted items such as list items, documents, lists, document libraries, and sites for 93 days. Deleted items in the recycle bin occupy storage…
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Site collection administrators have God-like power within a Site Collection in SharePoint 2016. Apart from Primary and Secondary site collection administrators, we can add additional site collection administrators on any SharePoint site collection. When managing SharePoint sites, it is often necessary to add or remove site collection administrators. This can be a…
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Fast Site Creation is a new feature introduced in SharePoint 2016. As the name suggests, Fast site Creation helps to speed up the site collection creation process. Internally, site collections are copied at SQL Server content database level, instead of calling traditional object model calls. Typically, this helps any large organization or…
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The version history feature in SharePoint enables us to track changes and revert to old versions when turned ON. Any changes made in SharePoint Online list item or document create a new version. You could run into scenarios where you have to roll back to an older version of the document, and…
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Requirement: Add a field to list content type in SharePoint Online. How to Add a column to a List or Library Content type in SharePoint Online? PowerShell is a powerful scripting language that can help automate many tasks in SharePoint. There may be times when you need to add a column to…
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Requirement: Set the home page with PowerShell in SharePoint Online. How to change the welcome page in SharePoint Online? Have you ever wanted to change the welcome page in SharePoint Online? It’s actually a pretty easy process, and this guide will walk you through it. Remember that you must be a site…
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Requirement: SharePoint Online PowerShell to add a content type to the library. How to add a content type to a list or library in SharePoint Online? In SharePoint Online, you can add content types to a list to help define the type of information that is stored in the list. For example,…
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Problem: Tried created an external list SharePoint 2016 using business data connectivity services, configured secure store target application, and created an external list in SharePoint. All went well; however, the external list displayed this error message with a correlation ID. Unable to render the data. If the problem persists, contact your web…
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Requirement:Create alerts on a bunch of libraries in different site collections of a SharePoint Web application! Solution: Identified and exported a list of Sites and Document Library names in the CSV file and used this PowerShell script to create multiple alerts. PowerShell script to create bulk alerts from CSV File: Here is…
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