Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
SharePoint migration is the process of transferring data, documents, and configurations from an existing system to SharePoint, ensuring improved collaboration. These guides will walk you through the process step-by-step, ensuring a smooth transition to your new platform.
Found so many hard-coded links (Absolute links) in SharePoint Quick launch and in Top navigation bar. This PowerShell script, Scans and Replaces the provided Old URL with the New URL all over the SharePoint web Application. PowerShell Script to Find and Replace Quick Launch and Top Navigation Links: This script may even…
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During maintenance/migrations, it’s inevitable to set the entire SharePoint Farm or at least Web Applications to read-only mode for some time. SharePoint doesn’t provide any direct ways to set the entire web application or Farm to Read-only mode, but we have these options available to set read only access to either SharePoint…
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During a Corporate Re-branding project, implemented a new logo, color themes all over the SharePoint sites, and now, the new Logo must be changed in All the InfoPath Form Libraries! It was really challenging to manually find InfoPath form libraries in a Large environment with 1500+ site collections. Automation? PowerShell! Here goes…
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Disclaimer: By writing this article, I’m not promoting or demoting any SharePoint migration product. This analysis was done in early 2012. Product features may get improved meanwhile. Products are compared in the perspective of the features required for my business scenarios. I’ve conducted these tests by migrating from our live SPS-2003 and…
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So you are ready for SharePoint Migration? Before starting with Migration process, You must document things on the current environment, which includes, but not limited to: Document Existing SharePoint Server’s Topology (preferably in Visio format), Roles, Hardware/Software Specifications, Installed Updates, Software installed, Language Packs, etc Prepare a List of SharePoint Web Applications,…
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During Migration, had to audit all customized (Un-ghosted) pages , Files, Views,etc. in SharePoint. Here are some useful resources on this regard. 1. To get list of customized List forms: Use STSADM -o EnumAllwebs -includecustomlistviews 2. Use Stsadm extention: Get-SPCustomizedPages from https://github.com/glapointe/PowerShell-SPCmdlets 3. Use RL Soft’s Custom Page auditor https://www.riolinx.com/resources/p/CustomPagesAuditor.zip 4. Use…
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During Service pack 3 patching on MOSS 2007, SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard ended with Error: Configuration Failed “An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException was thrown“, An Update Conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. Checked the Update Log file: There is a log event with “An update conflict has…
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I was doing a SharePoint 2007 SP3 upgrade, After installing the binaries, I ran SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard. The wizard runs through and then gets stuck on “Performing configuration task 8 of 9”. It hung for 8 hours! I looked in the upgrade.log, The log was full of thousands of…
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Usually, This error occurs when we miss some in-between updates. e.g. I Installed MOSS 2007 SP1 + Language Pack SP1, then Installed MOSS 2007 SP2 without Language pack and when I tried installing Oct-2009 CU, I got this error. Apparently we need to download and Install both the WSS and MOSS updates…
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After upgrading from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010, existing SharePoint alerts stopped working and only newly created alerts worked!!! We got to Fix Alerts after SharePoint migration, manually. Tried these trial and errors: Tried editing existing alerts, just changed its Name, It worked! Tried Turning Individual Alert ON and OFF – Yes,…
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