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How to Create External Lists from SQL Server using BCS in SharePoint 2016
Business Data Connectivity Services enables SharePoint 2013/2016 and Office 2013/2016 clients to interact with data that doesn't live in SharePoint. BCS allows you to integrate external data into...
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Fix "Unable to render the data. If the problem persists, contact your web...
Problem:Tried created an external list SharePoint 2016 using business data connectivity services, configured secure store target application and created external list in SharePoint. All went good,...
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Add Links to Resources List in SharePoint Central Administration
The Resources list in SharePoint Central Administration site lets you to keep frequently accessed links to the home page. Say for e.g. To access User profile service application, you'll have to...
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Get User Account By Display Name in SharePoint
Requirement: Get user by display name in SharePointWe have a CSV file with list of projects and their Team leads information. This list to be updated on a SharePoint list. But the challenge is 'Team...
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Fix for SharePoint 2016 Project Templates Missing in Visual Studio 2015
Problem: SharePoint Project Templates are missing in Visual Studio 2015!Solution:We need to install "Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015" for SharePoint 2016 project templates in...
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An error occurred while getting information about the user at server : The...
Problem: After installing SharePoint 2016 to setup a new farm, tried running SharePoint 2016 products configuration wizard, and the wizard failed at step 3 saying:Failed to create the configuration...
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Fix for "Cannot Connect to Database Master at SQL Server at Server Name - The...
Problem:When trying to create a new SharePoint farm using PowerShell, the SharePoint 2016 management Shell gave an error message:New-SPConfigurationDatabase : Cannot connect to database master at SQL...
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How to Create SharePoint 2016 Farm using PowerShell
Creating SharePoint 2016 farm using PowerShell is almost as same as in its previous version. In SharePoint 2016 there is an additional parameter -LocalServerRole added as SharePoint 2016 introduced...
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Add Site Collection Administrator to All Sites in SharePoint using PowerShell
Site collection administrators have God like Power within a Site Collection in SharePoint 2016. Apart from Primary & Secondary site collection administrators, we can add additional site collection...
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How to Delete a SharePoint Web Application
SharePoint Web Applications are actually an IIS Containers at top level. Each web application we create from SharePoint, creates respective site in IIS and a content database in SQL Server.To delete a...
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Rich Text Column in SharePoint Document Library
Problem:Could not add rich text columns to SharePoint document library, Picture Library and other type of Libraries!Little background: End user created in document library with type "Description"...
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Shared MinRoles in SharePoint 2016 Feature Pack 1
MinRole was an exciting new feature introduced in SharePoint 2016. In Simple words, based on the MinRole you select during setting up your Farm, SharePoint 2016 automatically takes care of services to...
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Configure My Sites in SharePoint 2016 - Step by Step Guide
SharePoint 2013 & SharePoint 2016 brought new social networking capabilities to the SharePoint collaboration space. With My Sites users can store documents, keep-up their profile information, news...
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How to Create State Service Application in SharePoint 2016
Lot of components like InfoPath Form services, Visio, Search Service, workflows, etc relies in State Service Application of SharePoint to store the application sessions. If its not configured already,...
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Fix "Unfortunately, help seems to be broken...There aren't any help...
Problem: The Help Menu (?) in SharePoint 2016 is not working! On clicking the Help menu, it gets the error message:"Unfortunately, help seems to be broken... There aren't any help collections in the...
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Configure Continuous Crawl in SharePoint 2016
SharePoint 2013 introduced a new Search crawl type called "Continuous Crawls" to keep the search results as fresh as possible. If enabled, Continuous crawl automatically starts at predefined intervals...
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Open this link on a phone - New Feature in SharePoint 2016
SharePoint 2016 introduced a new feature to open links on your phone or tablet using QR codes. Here is how this feature works:Go to any of your SharePoint 2016 library such as document library. From...
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Find and Replace User ID in SharePoint InfoPath Forms using PowerShell
Requirement: Replace User IDs in InfoPath Forms.Little background: A particular user's User account changed in Active directory and in SharePoint we ran Move-SPUser cmdlet to accommodate the user's SAM...
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Style SharePoint 2016 List View Web Part with Custom CSS
Requirement: Add a custom style to SharePoint 2016's standard list view web part to make it look like a dashboard!By default, SharePoint list view web part looks dull, isn't it? So, lets add some...
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SharePoint Online: Site Users and Groups Report using PowerShell
Requirement: Generate a report with all site groups and members of each group of a SharePoint online site collection.Get all Site Groups and Members of Each group:#Variables for processing$AdminURL =...
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