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Requirement: Create a new group in SharePoint Online Term Store. How to Create a New Term Group in SharePoint Online? Have you ever needed to create a new group in the Term Store for SharePoint Online? In this post, we will walk through the steps necessary to create a new group in…
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A SharePoint web application may have hundreds or thousands of site collections. Providing the same access to all of those site collections for a set of users can be a difficult task, isn’t it? So, here is where SharePoint Web application Policies come to play. Consider these practical scenarios where: Web application…
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In SharePoint, groups are an important aspect of managing permissions and controlling access to site resources. By creating a group, you can easily manage a set of users and assign them the appropriate permissions and access levels for specific site resources. In this article, we will explore how to create a group…
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When we create a new list or library in SharePoint Online, the “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” in the “Projects” list. How to Rename a List Column in…
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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 and contains branding assets that are stored in Design Manager. With the packaging feature of the Design Manager, we can package all…
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What is Design Manager in SharePoint 2013? Design manager is a nifty tool introduced in SharePoint 2013 that uses an HTML-based approach to convert static HTML templates into SharePoint master pages and page layouts. Use Design Manager to implement Branding and customization to your SharePoint sites. The overall idea of the SharePoint…
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Problem: While trying to add a new user to a SharePoint group, SharePoint 2013 People Picker displayed the error: “Sorry, we’re having trouble reaching the server.” Troubleshooting: The server may not have enough resources such as Memory to process the function without timing out. Try adding more memory to your SharePoint 2013…
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Problem: SharePoint approval workflow not available! This happened after migrating from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016! Solution: This is due to a workflow feature not being activated for the site collection. Activate the “Workflows” feature for the site collection to resolve this issue. Steps in detail: PowerShell Script to activate Workflows feature…
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Problem: On creating a new Site Collection in SharePoint 2016, I got this error message “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”! On Checking the ULS logs, it revealed detailed errors as: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPContentDatabaseCollection.FindBestContentDatabaseForSiteCreation(IEnumerable`1 contentDatabases, Guid siteIdToAvoid, Guid webIdToAvoid,…
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One of the exciting new features in SharePoint 2016 is Minrole. It defines the server’s role in the SharePoint 2016 farm and ensures all necessary services are running on that server! SharePoint 2016 comes with the below Minroles: Single Server Farm Front End Application Distributed Cache Search Custom Change MinRole in SharePoint…
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