Salaudeen Rajack's SharePoint Experiences!
Requirement: Encode or Decode a URL in SharePoint Online using PowerShell. PowerShell to Decode URL: URL encoding is the process of converting characters in a URL into a format that can be safely transmitted over the internet. Decoding is the reverse process of converting encoded characters back into their original form. In…
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ULS logs are unavoidable in SharePoint administration and support. This post describes the basic usage of ULS log viewer to reveal actual error messages in SharePoint 2013/2016 environment. Scenario: You got an E-mail from an end-user saying: They received a typical “An unexpected error has occurred.” page with some GUID, timestamp, etc….
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PowerGUI is my favorite IDE for creating PowerShell scripts. When I upgraded PowerGUI to a newer version 3.5, all my scripts stopped working and I started receiving below error: “Get-SPWeb : Microsoft SharePoint is not supported with version 4.0.30319.1 of the Microsoft .Net Runtime.” Root Cause: SharePoint cmdlets do not work with…
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What is SMTP4DEV? Well, SMTP4Dev is a nifty tool for capturing and testing Emails from any application. It doesn’t actually send any Emails to the actual recipients, but it captures Emails triggered from applications such as SharePoint. Here is how we can utilize this tool for testing outgoing Emails from SharePoint. This…
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We have document libraries with unlimited versioning enabled for years. As part of regular auditing Version History Size Report for Entire SharePoint Web Application, found many documents have more than 100 versions! In order to free up more database storage space and for better performance, We understand that we’ll have to disable…
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Windows 7 comes with an In-Built Screen recorder: Problem Steps Recorder to record screen with series of screenshots and text. Its greatly helpful when we want to reproduce end-users issues and troubleshoot. How to open : Problem Steps Recorder? Go to Run >> Type “PSR” It launches the nifty utility. With this…
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In my Laptop with Windows 7, I’ve SharePoint 2010 Installed for my tryouts. I use it whenever I’m out of network connectivity. Problem is: Not quite frequently I use SharePoint from my laptop, but SharePoint services start automatically when I turn on my laptop and eating up my resources especially RAM. (SharePoint…
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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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PowerShell ISE is a wonderful tool for creating, Debugging and executing PowerShell scripts. But it doesn’t get installed automatically. Here is how to install PowerShell ISE in Windows 2008 R2. You don’t have to download anything to get PowerShell ISE in Windows 2008 R2, It’s an Instinct feature but not installed by…
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Requirement: End-User has an Excel file, wants to create a SharePoint list with data from Excel file, and Synchronize between SharePoint Lists and Microsoft Excel. Fairly Simple, The very first option that comes to our mind is: Import Spreadsheet, isn’t it? nope, That can be used to Create List and import data…
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