Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
I installed and configured SharePoint in a sandbox. Everything works great, except the People Picker. The problem is that the People Picker didn’t show any user from the Active Directory. However, it showed me the users from my local sandbox. I verified and confirmed that the Sandbox is joined to the domain….
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PowerShell has become one of the most pivotal technologies for IT professionals and system administrators working in the modern enterprise landscape. PowerShell allows you to easily automate repetitive tasks, improving overall productivity and providing more time to focus on higher-value tasks. Whether you manage on-premises Windows servers or cloud infrastructure on Azure,…
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End-users were asking for an enhancement in out-of-the-box alert-subscription for a long while. All they wanted to have is: There is a site template for Managing Projects, with 50+ lists and libraries. Every time when they create a new site for a new project, they had to go to each and every…
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Yeah, It’s a classic issue! SharePoint prompts for user name and password, every time when a user tries to access SharePoint sites. Every time SharePoint 2010 (or MOSS 2007) keeps asking password is annoying, Isn’t it? Here’s is the solution to disable and stop the prompt for username and password: In…
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When setting up user profile synchronization in SharePoint we have to provide filters in order to import users on a specific criteria. say, we don’t want to import disabled users. By default SharePoint pulls all the users from the directory source (usually Active Directory). SharePoint 2010 has a nice user interface, where…
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The end-user came up with a requirement: Disable alerts from a particular SharePoint list, where 100’s of people subscribed already. Its apparent that we can disable alerts for web application either from Central Administration or executing the stsadm: stsadm -o setproperty -url https://server_name -pn alerts-enabled -pv false But here the requirement is…
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User controls are a rapid way to develop custom functionality. There are three steps involved in creating user controls. This article walks through step by step on creating user controls in SharePoint 2010 which displays currently logged-in user. Create and deploy user control Register user control in the target Insert the user…
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With this free tool, You can connect to a SharePoint site and download the documents and lists to your local machine and access them offline. There is another product from the same vendor, Colligo Contributor, which allows two-way sync with SharePoint and which is not free. By the way, we have SharePoint…
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Problem: When content approval turned on, SharePoint doesn’t allow us to edit items in “Edit in Datasheet View”. This is listed in Microsoft KB and in my old post Datasheet view is in Read-Only Mode Trick: Navigate to “Approve/Reject Items” view (mod-view.aspx), From there click on Datasheet view, Now you will be…
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Today, I tried writing a console application to fetch some data from SharePoint for report generation. Started with simple code, Ran it, Boom! Error: “FileNotFoundException was unhandled” in spsite constructor!Verified that the URL is valid and able to access. In fact, my code was quite simple. SPSite site = new SPSite(“https://sharepoint”);Console.WriteLine(site.RootWeb.Title); Solution…
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