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Powershell : File cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is...
If you get the above error while executing a power script, it maybe due to the Execution Policy. An overview of the policy levels: Restricted: Individual cmdlets can run, but not saved Powershell...
View ArticleSharepoint Online : The site collection containing this sandboxed solution...
If you are getting this error in your Sharepoint Online environment : please follow this MS link here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2536051
View ArticleSharepoint Online : How to create a sharepoint site for Anonymous user from a...
We heard creating a public sharepoint site in E1/E2/E3 plans. But, its exactly straight forward to create sharepoint site for anonymous users in Plan P1. We are not talking about converting a public...
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Sharepoint Online : How to enable Anonymous Access to a list or a document...
Yes, We are talking about Office 365 and Sharepoint Online & suprisingly this applies to Plan P1/E1/E2/E3. Couldn't believe it huh?? First-off, you shoudl know using plan P1 you could still create...
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Sharepoint Online : How to create a external link in the public facing website
OK. If you are wondering how to create a external links to the public facing website in office 365, then you are at the right place. By default, the public website design is a little different and...
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To our brothers & sisters
To all the heroes who died and lived to help people in need & the families who were touched by the tragedy on 09/11/2001. Our thoughts are with you today.
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Error : The List Cannot be Displayed in Datasheet view
If you are getting the below error when you try to open the list in a DataView, then you might wan to install the 2007 Office Data Connectivity Components. You can download the components right here
View ArticleSiteActions disappeared after a Content DB back up
After taking a backup of a site contentDB, all of a sudden the siteactions menu disappeared even for the Site Collection Administrator. However, as a administrator, you could still navigate to view all...
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Merry X-mas & Happy Holidays
shopSharepoint.com wishes you and your family Merry X-mas & Happy Holidays
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Can you change the name of the document in a document library programatically??
Can you change the name of the document in a document library programatically?? - we CAN NOT do that simply as Name and Title of SPFile are read only fields. SpFile.Title is a read only field as shown...
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How to hide a ribbon in the sharepoint page?
If you are wondering how to hide a ribbon control in the sharepoint page, it's as simple as a one liner code. Lets use a button click event and Hide the ribbon -...
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A quick look at SharePoint 2010 Site Event Receivers
With Sharepoint 2010,you could now track when a web is added, provisioned, moved and deleted. Deleting,Adding, Provisioning & Moving are synchronous events and Deleted, Added,Provisioned &...
View ArticleSPS : Quick Demo
Sandboxed PassCode Solution that redirects users to a configured page, on entering the right passcode. This is designed to work on Office 365 environment.
View ArticlePowershell Script to export sitecollection groups from a specific sitecollection
This below powershell scriptwill export all the sitecollection groups to a specified text file. $site = Get-SPSite"http://www.shopsharepoint.com" $filename = "d:\shopsharepointusergroups.txt"...
View ArticleHow to create a Custom PeoplePicker Control?
How do we embed our custom logic into PeoplePicker control? Implemented exampleshows how to create people picker with user selection limited to a particulardepartment. 1) First we need to create...
View ArticleWhy Document ID & How to use this feature in Sharepoint Online?
Document ID is one of the coolest feature in Sharepoint 2010. Document ID can help solving one of our most annoying problem of not maintaining the document URL link when a document is moved across the...
View ArticleExposing BCC (for emails) in SharePoint Designer 2010
if you want to set a BCC option to send an email through SharePoint Designer 2010 you would be disappointed for a second as you don't see the BCC option in the dialog. However if you look at the...
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SharePoint 2010: Creating Custom List Defination using VS 2010
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 provides a project type that makes it easier to create list definitions in XML and to create list instances that are based on those definitions. A field definition, defines...
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Creating a SharePoint project in Visual Studio 2010 solution
Creating a SharePointproject in Visual Studio 2010 solution: Open Visual Studio 2010 using the run as administrator (important) option. A quick tip is to create ashortcut for Visual Studio 2010 to...
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Sharepoint 15 - A Technical Preview Interoperability API Documentation
The first set of official documentation of Sharepoint 15 is released by Microsoft early last month. This documentation contains reference topics focusing only on types and members that are called by...
View ArticleSharepoint 2010 : Facebook Plugin Webpart
Looking for a facebook plugin webpart for Sharepoint Online, Sharepoint 2010. We have a demo here that could show you exactly what you want. Take the wsp file from here. courtesy - www.spmcm.me
View ArticleSharepoint Online : How do you Upload Large Files into Sharepoint Online...
Uploading large documents into sharepoint 2010 or Sharepoint Online is a resource sensitive topic. Here is a suggestion by which you could upload a large media file using the UploadAsync method of...
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Sharepoint 15 - Release Schedule looks like this
I was going through different sources of Sharepoint 15 and found this below schedule. SharePoint 15, and Office 15, will be available in the first quarter of 2013. courtesy : SharepointBog/uk
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Sharepoint 2010 : Memory Leaks in your webparts - check this out : DisposeCheck
Microsoft has released a tool called the SPDisposeCheck utility that will analyze your assemblies and report on any improperly disposed Shared Point objects. The utility can be downloaded here:...
View ArticleSharepoint 15 - Features (A draft)
SharePoint 15 will: Include an overhauled Client Object Model (COM), "making it easier for UI designrs and front-end developers to build compelling visual interfaces." Support a new app marketplace...
View ArticleSharepoint 2010 : 3 Line code to activate your developer Dashboard
3 liner VB.Net code to Activate developer dashboard Dim ssCs As SPWebService = SPWebService.ContentService ssCs.DeveloperDashboardSettings.DisplayLevel = SPDeveloperDashboardLevel.[On]...
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Sharepoint 2010 : Using OOB Chart WebPart with External Content Type
BCS in SharePoint 2010 is all about Connecting to ExternalData, that reside inside servers like SQL Server. BCS enhances the SharePoint platform'scapabilities with Out Of the Box features . Before...
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Sharepoint 2010 : Relevant documents web part
The Relevant Documents web part displays documents relevant to the current user. I think this is one of the more useful webpart. This web part will essentially shows the following; Documents last...
View ArticleSharepoint 2013 : 8 Things to Help You Prepare
With Sharepoint15 Beta releaseon deck, we should consider the below 8 Things to be prepared 1. Optimized Environment Like the last version of SharePoint, IT managersare going to be on the front...
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Sharepoint 2010 : Infopath form stuck with installing
if you think your infopath is clean and doesn't have any error and when you do the upload the form template in the central admin, if you get stuck to the 'Installing' status as shown below then try the...
View ArticleSharepoint 2010 : Things to remember while using RunWithElevatedPrivileges
1. you should initiate a SPSite object with in the SPSecurity.RunWithElevetedPrivilges. 2. Create SPSite using ID. This is very important thing. 3. Make sure to add web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true...
View ArticleSharepoint 2010 : Site Definition Vs Custom Site Template - How would anyone...
Before you choose to decide between sitedefinitions and custom site templates, please see the below tabular column Site Defnition Site Template How much change are we talking about? Major (Content...
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SharePoint 2010: Resolving BCS error : Metadata store is currently unavailable
TheSharePoint 2010 Business Data Connectivity Service allows connecting withexternal data systems (WCF service, database, .Net assemblies). This is animproved version of the Business Data Catalog in...
View ArticleSharepoint 2013 : Vegas Conference Update (Delayed)
Well, this post was drafted a while ago (I mean a while) andfinally I got a chance to post this – SharepointConference 2013 Update - The biggest change I could see is that MS is trying to get out of...
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Sharepoint 2013: Licensing Model (On-premise)
A lot changed on the sharepoint licensing model in 2013version. You don’t need a separate license for FAST as FAST is integrated withsharepoint search. You could enforce and tie the licensing to the AD...
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Sharepoint 2013 : Host-Named Site Collection
Unlike in 2010, you can now add multiple URL's to your host-named site collections. You can add multiple URL's to one zone. No more restrictions! Use the Set-SPSiteUrl command to set multiple URL's.
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Powershell : Restarting all Sharepoint 2013 services
Here is a quick and easy way to restart all sharepoint services in your sharepoint server. #Name of server where you are running the script $server = "shop-01-FE" #Listed are all the sharepoint...
View ArticleSharepoint 2013 : Things to consider before starting your migration
Just DON'T jump on to content backup/restoration and say you did a migration. You have a number of things to consider before you start your migration. Some of them are listed below. From the Content...
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Sharepoint 2013 : First Sharepoint 2013 Upgrade Experience
I finally completed my first sharepoint 2013 migration from2010 version. Though I have seen a lot of posts on the upgrade, I would like toshare my step-by-step approach towards the migration. Before...
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Sharepoint 2013 : Lockdown Viewlsts.aspx for both 14 and 15 hive features
Typically, when we develop application for endusers, we don't want anonymous users to see the following content - · /_layouts/viewlsts.aspx We have a hidden feature which we can activateusing...
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Azure : Playing with Windows Azure
Had some time in the last 2 days,thought of playing with Sharepoint + Azure. Signed up for it, created a new account (90 day trial), it's a lot of fun setting up the VM environments. Here are the...
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Sharepoint 2013 : Continuous Crawl
Continuouscrawls is a new feature in SharePoint 2013, it keeps the search index andsearch results as fresh as possible. With all new changes in 2013, a documentcan appear in the index within seconds of...
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Powershell : Changing password for a managed account in Sharepoint 2010
If you have changed the password for a service account in Active Directory and which happened to be the managed account for one of your services (In my case, its the managed account for fast), then its...
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Sharepoint 2013 : REST improvements
REST (Representational State Transfer)is the new standard and HTTP protocol is viewed as a REST based architecture as it sends messages from Client to Server using REST. REST uses oDATA to define these...
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Sharepoint 2013 : Sorry, apps are turned off. If you know who runs the...
After hosting my sharepoint trial site in azure (my-previous-post), I tried adding appsto the sharepoint site. 2 Things – 1. I added a NAPA app which is a dev tool notsupported in environments other...
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Sharepoint 2013 : Drag & Drop Navigation Tips
You can build your navigation with a simple drag and drop in Sharepoint 2013. Until now, the navigation are managed by going through a series of steps. SiteSettings>Navigation>Quick...
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SharePoint 2013: Setting the status in the status bar from an app
Created and Uploaded a sample demo on how to set the status from an sharepoint 2013 app. You can download the source code from the microsoft site. In general, SharePoint 2013 provides the below methods...
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Sharepoint 2013: Configuring Search Refiners for Metadata
Let’s assume that we have a picture library that hosts documentsand a column with rich metadata. In my case, it’s a picture library of “CricketBats” and the metadata is from the term store that holds...
View ArticleSharepoint 2013 : Feature comparison Online Vs On-prem
SharePoint 2013 Description SharePoint Online? On-Premise Min Version Insights features PerformancePoint Services PerformancePoint Services enables SharePoint Server 2013 customers to create...
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Sharepoint 2013 : Configuring count to the refiners created for metadata
The previous post helped us configuring a new refiner for the meta data stored in the Term Store. To make it a little more fancy, lets consider adding a little count to that specific refiner. This...
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