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Run SharePoint 2010 Timer Jobs On-Demand with PowerShell
We may have to run SharePoint timer jobs on-demand in some situations. Say for e.g. To update Rating values, I had to run the timer jobs: User Profile Service Application - Social Rating...
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Update Web Part Properties Programmatically in SharePoint
Ever wanted to update SharePoint web part properties programmatically? After a company acquisition, We had to change the company name from a custom web part's title, throughout the web...
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Fix Incoming Emails Not Working Issue in SharePoint Migration
Problem: After a Database attach method of SharePoint migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, all incoming E-mail enabled libraries stopped working! They no longer receive E-mails!! Here is...
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Enable Wildcard Search by Default in SharePoint 2010
By default, Wildcard search is not enabled in SharePoint! Say for e.g. If you search for "Script" you will get results for the search query. But if you want to search using partial words ("sc" for...
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Add Site Collection Administrators Programmatically in SharePoint
SharePoint site collection administrators have Full rights to all sites within a site collection. Primary site collection administrator and Secodary site collection administrator specified in central...
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Change SharePoint Site Collection Quota using PowerShell
In some cases, I have seen site collection quotas are turned to "Individual Quota" in database attachment method, even I copied the quota templates before database attachment. All quota settings are...
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Apply SharePoint Quota Template Changes to Existing Sites
Problem Scenario:Â End-users actively started using their "My Sites" and most of their My sites reached the site collection storage quota limit of 100MB! Gradually started receiving many requests to...
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SharePoint Site Collection Quota Usage Report
Wanted to get a quick quota report on SharePoint sites on their allocation vs used space metrics to find out underutilized sites. Here is the PowerShell script to get SharePoint site quota...
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Site Collection Administrators Report for All SharePoint Sites
I just had to generate a report to find SharePoint site collection administrators see who are all assigned with Site collection administrator rights on various site collection in entire SharePoint...
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Configure Replicating Directory Changes in Windows Server 2008 / 2012
Replicating directory changes permission is a requirement to configure User Profile Service Application(UPS) in SharePoint 2010 and for SharePoint 2013. We've to grant replicate directory changes...
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Create SharePoint Quota Templates using PowerShell
SharePoint quota templates enables us to keep the site collections growth in control. It defines the maximum amount of data stored in a site collection and prevent from disk fillings! Quota templates...
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Remove Site Collection Administrator using PowerShell
How to remove a site collection administrator in SharePoint? To remove SharePoint Site Collection Administrator, we use "Site collection Administrators" link from site settings. You must be a Farm...
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How to Hide Site Templates in SharePoint with PowerShell
How to hide a site template in SharePoint ? Editing "webtemp.xml" file is one option to hide site templates in SharePoint 2007 as per my another article: Hide Site templates & List Templates in...
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"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" on Accessing SharePoint...
Problem: SharePoint 2010 central administration site stopped working after a reboot and gave "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" on trying to access!Troubleshooting: SharePoint central admin...
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How to Create Delete SharePoint Groups Programmatically with PowerShell
These PowerShell code snippets helps to Create or Delete SharePoint Groups programmatically using PowerShell:Create SharePoint Group Programmatically with PowerShell: Use this function to create a...
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How to Recover Deleted SharePoint Central Admin Site from IIS
SharePoint Central Administration site got deleted from IIS accidentally! It may happen due to file system got corruption errors. No worries, We can Re-provision SharePoint Central admin site! Lets...
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Disable People Picker, Lookup Fields in SharePoint List Forms
In continuation with my earlier post: How to Make SharePoint List Column (Form Field) Read Only, There are questions on disabling (or making them read-only) People Picker, Lookup Fields in SharePoint...
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How to Change Sharepoint Web Application Port
While extending existing SharePoint web application to change its port is one option, there is an another workaround to change port of SharePoint web applications (Applies to both SharePoint 2010 /...
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SharePoint 2010 Visual Upgrade - FAQs
What is Visual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010? Lets understand visual upgrade in SharePoint 2010. In short: It's a feature introduced in SharePoint 2010 to ease up transition from MOSS 2007 user interface...
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How to Clear SharePoint Designer Cache
We face some Odd issue with SharePoint Designer: SPD shows files checked out already even though they weren't. While trying to check-in, SPD errored with "Cannot perform this operation. The file is no...
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