Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Today, I am running on a weird issue. for a particular site collection in my SharePoint environment, It opens in the contributor mode, and when I tried, I’m unable to delete that site collection, Even though I’m a Farm Admin! Huh.. After spending considerable amount of time, I figured out the issue….
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Sometimes this error pops out from the SharePoint Services Administration command when the user does retract a solution or deploy a solution like the following: stsadm -o retractsolution -name “%PackageName%” -local -url %TargetWebUrl% Or stsadm -o deploysolution -name “%PackageName%” -local -allowGacDeployment -url %TargetWebUrl% Error: “A deployment or retraction is already under way for…
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In SharePoint 2007, When we create a web part page, it doesn’t come up with left navigation! SharePoint quick launch missing in web part pages!! Well, there are 3 approaches to resolve this issue. Editing the Site definition Template files – Farm level (NOT RECOMMENDED!) Editing the Master page – Site level Editing…
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Problem: Couldn’t Access a local SharePoint site from the server! Today, I setup my new SharePoint 2010 development box. I made the machine as a domain controller: “Crescent.com”. Machine name was: SharePoint. After I installed SharePoint in port 80 I was accessing the SharePoint site at URL: https://sharepoint. Then I wanted to…
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While trying to get a site collection in browser, It gave me this error: “Access to this Web site has been blocked. Please contact the administrator to resolve this problem.” Root cause: I understand, the site collection is being locked out! Wanted to unlock it by going to the Central Admin website. Central…
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When I configured my first SharePoint 2010 sandbox, I tried creating access services and received below error: So, it’s telling us to enable Session state. Isn’t it? How to Enable Session State for SharePoint 2010? Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell Type in the following cmdlet: Enable-SPSessionStateService Provide values for the following parameters:…
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What is Log parser? Well, as per Microsoft’s definition: Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files, and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry, the…
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SharePoint 2010 provided a new breadcrumb feature… But for the consistency sake on internet sites, we may need to go for MOSS 2007 style breadcrumb. So here I’m explaining How to get MOSS 2007 style breadcrumb on SharePoint 2010. Here are the steps: Open your Master page in SharePoint designer. Search for…
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Error: Â “The search service is currently offline. Visit the services on server page in SharePoint central administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress” Â Here is the Fix: Open central admin >> Operations Go to Services on the server…
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In SharePoint 2007 content databases can grow till 100 GB. What if you want to move your existing sites to a new content db? Well, Here is the manual way to move site collection to a different database in SharePoint 2007: Backup and Delete the Site Collection Set all your Content Databases’…
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