Configure Require Check Out Settings in SharePoint Server

Require Check out Setting in SharePoint Check out is a quick way to lock a document from editing by other users. The require check out feature in SharePoint 2016 eliminates the risk of accidentally overriding another user’s update on the same document simultaneously. As SharePoint is a collaboration platform, several users may…

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How to Reindex a SharePoint Site using PowerShell?

Requirement: Reindex SharePoint Site collection using PowerShell. Reindex feature introduced in SharePoint 2013 onwards allows you to force the search service to re-index the whole site, list, or library (it doesn’t matter whether items are changed or not). By default, the full crawl picks up all items. However, when you reindex, SharePoint…

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How to Delete the Drop Off Library in SharePoint Server?

Problem:When the content organizer feature is enabled, it creates a “Drop Off Library” document library on your SharePoint site. But disabling the feature does not remove the library! Also, you can’t simply delete “Drop Off Library” because the “Delete this document library” link is not available when you go to “Library Settings”….

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How to Copy a SharePoint List using PowerShell?

Requirement: Copy a SharePoint List to Another List. How to copy a list in SharePoint? Do you need to make a copy of a SharePoint list? Maybe you want to back up the data in the list or create a new list with the same set of columns and settings as an…

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How to Change the Document Template in SharePoint Document Library?

Requirement: Change document template in SharePoint document library. How to Add New Document Template in SharePoint? How do I add templates to a SharePoint document library? To add a document template to the SharePoint document library, we’ve to first upload a new document template to SharePoint and then change the document template…

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How to Add Document Template to Content Type in SharePoint?

Requirement:  Add document template to a content type in SharePoint. How to Associate a Document template with content type? Content type with document template helps to enforce consistency and save time on SharePoint document management. With document templates, users who create new documents based on a content type can have a pre-populated…

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PowerShell to Search SharePoint and Export Results to CSV using Keyword Query

Requirement: Search a SharePoint site and export the search results to a CSV file using PowerShell. PowerShell to Export SharePoint Search Results to CSV At times, it can be helpful to export the search results to a familiar format like Excel for further analysis and processing. In this blog post, we will…

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How to Make a Field Required in SharePoint List using PowerShell?

Requirement: Make a Field Required in SharePoint Online List. How to Set a List Field Required in SharePoint? A required field in SharePoint Online is a column that users must fill out when creating or editing an item. Required fields are a way to ensure that certain information is always captured and…

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Create Search Service Application in SharePoint 2016 Multi-Server Farm using PowerShell

As its name implies, the Search Service Application in SharePoint provides search functionality. We must use PowerShell scripts to configure the search service application from SharePoint 2013 onwards. Although we can create a new search service application instance, there is no user interface to configure the Search topology from SharePoint Central Admin….

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