Check if SharePoint web application uses Claims Based Authentication or Classic mode?

Check SharePoint Web Application Authentication Mode How to check if the SharePoint web application is using Claims or Classic mode authentication? Well, To determine if the particular web application is using Claims or Classic Authentication, from SharePoint 2013 Central Administration follow t…

Create User Profile Synchronization Connection in SharePoint 2016 using PowerShell

User Profile Service Synchronization Connection in SharePoint specifies the source for importing user profiles from Active Directory or any other profile source. The user profile import operation is unidirectional in SharePoint 2016 (from Active Directory to SharePoint) which populates user profi…

SharePoint Online: Add Person or Group (People Picker) Column to List using PowerShell

Requirement: Create Person or Group Column in SharePoint Online List. How to  Add Person or Group Column to List in SharePoint Online: The "Person or Group" column in SharePoint Online is used to get user or group value. This field can be configured to accept any value from the authe…

SharePoint Online: Add Lookup Column to List using PowerShell

Requirement: Create new Lookup Column to a SharePoint Online List. How to Create Lookup Column in SharePoint Online List? The Lookup column in SharePoint Online lets you populate the column value based on a another column's value from different list in the same site. To add a lookup field…

SharePoint Online: Add Number Column to List using PowerShell

Requirement: Create Number Column in SharePoint Online List. How to Add Number Column to SharePoint Online List? Number column in SharePoint Online is used for numerical entry. Further, this field can be configured to present the value as decimal numbers, set minimum-maximum allowed values. …

SharePoint Online: Remove User from Site Collection using PowerShell

Requirement : SharePoint Online Remove User from site collection How to Delete user from site collection in SharePoint Online? To remove a user from SharePoint Online site collection, follow these steps: Login to SharePoint Online site as Administrator >> Navigate to "All People&q…

SharePoint Online: PowerShell to Upload Master Page

Requirement: Upload master page to SharePoint Online How to add master page to SharePoint Online? To add master page to SharePoint online, Login to your SharePoint Online site >> Click on Settings >> Site Settings In the Site Settings page, Click on "Master Pages" und…

SharePoint Online: Change Master Page using PowerShell

Requirement: Change Master Page in SharePoint Online. How to Set Master Page in SharePoint Online? If you want to change master page in SharePoint Online, follow these steps: Login to your SharePoint Online site >> Click on Settings Gear Icon >> Site Settings From the Site Sett…

SharePoint Online: Create a Folder using PowerShell

Create Folder in SharePoint Online Document Library Folders are used to organize files in SharePoint, similar to what we do on our computer. You can add a folder to SharePoint online list or library by following the below steps. How to Create a Folder in SharePoint Online? Folders can be crea…

SharePoint Online: Delete List View using PowerShell

Requirement: Delete a view in SharePoint Online How to Delete a View in SharePoint Online? To delete a list view in SharePoint online, follow these steps: Login to your SharePoint online site, Navigate to the list containing the view you want to delete. Select the View to delete. Click on Mo…

Configure Continuous Crawl in SharePoint 2016

SharePoint 2013 introduced a new Search crawl type called "Continuous Crawls" to keep the search results as fresh as possible. If enabled, Continuous crawl automatically starts at predefined intervals - By default the interval for continuous crawls is every 15 minutes. How continuous …

Create SharePoint 2013 Secure Store Service Application using PowerShell

PowerShell Script to Create SharePoint 2013/2016 Secure store Service application: Secure Store Service was introduced as a replacement to the SSO feature since SharePoint 2010. Secure Store Service is a shared service that provides storage and mapping of credentials such as account names and p…

SharePoint Online: Restore Previous Version of a Document using PowerShell

Requirement: Restore previous version of a document in SharePoint Online. How to Restore a previous version of a document or Item in SharePoint Online? When you restore a previous version of a list item or document, that version becomes the current version. You may want to restore a previous v…

SharePoint Online: Create New Group in Term Store using PowerShell

Requirement: Create new group in SharePoint Online Term Store. How to Create a New Term Group in SharePoint Online? To create a new group in SharePoint online term store, follow these steps: Navigate to your SharePoint admin center site. (E.g. https://yourdomain-admin.sharepoint.com) Click …

Configuring Web Application User Policy in SharePoint 2013 / 2016

A SharePoint web application may have hundreds or thousands of site collections. Providing same access to all of those site collections for a set of users can be difficult task, isn't it? So here is where SharePoint Web application Policies comes to play. Consider these practical scenarios wh…

How to Add a New User Group in SharePoint 2016?

It is best practice to assign permissions to groups and add users to those groups rather than granting permission directly. If the default groups do not suit your needs, you can create new groups. Lets see how to create new SharePoint 2013 groups. Make sure you logged in as a site collection …

SharePoint Online: Rename a Column in List using PowerShell

When we create a new list or library in SharePoint/SharePoint Online, "Title" column gets created automatically. SharePoint doesn't allow us to delete this title column. However, we can change the "title" column name to something relevant such as "Project Name" i…

How to Create SharePoint 2016 Design Package using Design Manager?

How to create a design package in SharePoint 2016: The design package is a .wsp file that can be created through the Design Manager in SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016, contains branding assets that are stored in Design Manager. With the packaging feature of Design manager, we can package al…