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SharePoint-Tab-Highlight-Problem.aspx

Sep

2012

In your SharePoint setup, if top navigation aka global navigation tabs do not highlight after clicking on them – then most probably their navigation URL needs to be fixed. For example, if the tab URL is http://server/sitename/default.aspx then remove /default.aspx from this URL such that your final URL should be http://server/sitename in the navigation settings ...

PowerShell and SharePoint 2010

Sep

2012

If you are a SharePoint developer or administrator, then start learning Power Shell. It’s a must have skill for dealing with SharePoint from now on wards. Windows Power Shell is an interactive command line and task based scripting technology which allows administrators to automate administrative tasks. From SharePoint viewpoint, Power Shell has significant performance benefits: ...

SharePoint security access denied permission corruption problem – Edit Item and Access Workflows 1

Sep

2012

During SharePoint migration from WSS 3.0 to MOSS, we experienced a very strange permission problem. After migration, whenever a new list or site was created; its edit access was somehow revoked. Not even system account could edit item??? This was a peculiar problem because user was unable to edit list items and was unable to ...

URL redirection or URL mapping in Sharepoint

Sep

2012

URL redirection in sharepoint can be done with many different ways, but the one I have most useful is to implement it via httpmodule. Just use following piece of code to create httpmodule and update web.config of the web application to add that module entry and everything will work fine: namespace BWL.RedirectModule { public class ...

How to use default master file in admin pages of Sharepoint instead of _layouts based application master file

Sep

2012

While doing Sharepoint branding or skinning you may notice that Sharepoint default master page styling does not apply to its admin pages. For example, admin page like “View All Content” will remain as is because admin pages served via _layouts folder use different master page i.e. application.master which resides in the same _layouts folder. So, ...

How to change New icon duration in SharePoint

Sep

2012

!New icon in SharePoint is used to indicate newly added list items. It is used as a visual clue for users. Default duration of this icon is 2 days. Fortunately, using stsadm we can update that duration or even get rid of it, if required. To Change Duration: You can run stsadm.exe by using the ...

SharePoint Quiesce How it works?

Sep

2012

There is an interesting operation option in SharePoint called “Quiesce Farm” in MOSS (Section Global Configuration –> Operation of Central Admin) and in SharePoint 2010 via stsadm -o quiescefarm -maxduration n command. Please note that not all features in your portal environment are affected when you Quiesce your farm. Quiesce doesn’t mean the same user ...

The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered–After Renaming SharePoint 2010 Server using PowerShell

Sep

2012

It is not recommended to use Windows PowerShell Rename-SPServer cmdlet because it does not work if the server on which the configuration database is stored has already been renamed. So, problem is that when you run PowerShell (after Rename-SPServer) on your SharePoint server, you get be greeted with the following error: The local farm is ...

How to restore SharePoint Configuration Database from Suspect Status

Sep

2012

In order to restore SharePoint Configuration Database from Suspect Status back to the normal, please following following steps: EXEC sp_resetstatus ‘SharePoint_Config’ ALTER DATABASE SharePoint_Config SET EMERGENCY DBCC checkdb(‘SharePoint_Config’) ALTER DATABASE SharePoint_Config SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE DBCC CheckDB (‘SharePoint_Config’, REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS) ALTER DATABASE SharePoint_Config SET MULTI_USER Hope this helps!

SharePoint Invalid index. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070585)

Sep

2012

If you face this error in SharePoint 2010 “Invalid index. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80070585)” – this means that indexing needs to be correct for the view of the list to work. To solve, please follow these steps: 1. Modify view of your list as shown in below screen shot: 2. Uncheck “Last Updated” field 3. ...