Troubleshooting SharePoint

28 Dec 2013

Merry Christmas!!!

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell | 0

I hope you’ve enjoyed reading this blog over the last year and that you’ve had a great year in SharePoint. There isn’t going to be a blog post this week, due to the Christmas Holiday. Next week I’ll be back … Read More

21 Dec 2013

Setting up your farm for optimal performance – Super User and Super Reader Accounts

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Performance, PowerShell | 0

It is important to configure the super user and super reader accounts for your SharePoint farm in order to optimize it’s use of the object cache. This is true especially if you are using the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure. Here … Read More

14 Dec 2013

Farm is failing to create a new web application on all servers in the farm IIS

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Troubleshooting | 0

If you ever run into a situation where your farm suddenly fails to create the web application on all front end web servers, in other words it only gets created on the server running central admin, one good indication of … Read More

7 Dec 2013

Exporting and Importing just a list or a library

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, SharePoint Administration | 0

If the goal is to import just one list or one library there are a couple ways you can accomplish this: 1. Navigate to settings for the list or library, save it as a template, navigate to the solutions gallery, … Read More

30 Nov 2013

Provisioning a SharePoint 2010 Farm Service Applications using a PowerShell Script

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, SharePoint Administration | 1

This video is best if watched in Full Screen modeand any references to completed services should really say, the powershell script has completed creating the service application and you still need to manually configure it, just as you would if the … Read More

23 Nov 2013

Links to Software to create a home lab

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: SharePoint Administration | 0

Pre-requisite: A server with at least 16 GB of RAM http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538 – Server 2012 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973397 – SharePoint Server 2013 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973403 – Project Server 2013 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh225126 – SQL 2012 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/default – all Evaluation Software http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn407368 – previous editions (e.g. windows server … Read More

16 Nov 2013

What are Crawled Properties, iFilters, and Connectors in SharePoint 2010?

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Search, SharePoint Administration | 0

This post lists links to various TechNet resources, along with a brief regarding each resource: Crawled Properties: this page details the properties that are included in the index by default. You can modify the default properties to provide a richer … Read More

2 Nov 2013

How to – IIS moving sites and applications

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Server Administration | 0

Don’t ever do this #%$^ with a SharePoint site In this completely, hypothetical, situation, you are the web administrator for a website named ChiNet. Chinet is an old, antiquated site, but you love it nonetheless and want to move … Read More

26 Oct 2013

A few Random development tricks – slighted trickery

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: SharePoint Development | 0

CSS to block quicklaunch etc.

<style>
.ms-quicklaunch
{
display:none;
}
.ms-navframe
{
display: none;
}
.ms-globalTitleArea {
display: none;
}
</style>

<style>

.ms-quicklaunch

{

display:none;

}

.ms-navframe

{

display: none;

}

.ms-globalTitleArea {

display: none;

}

</style>

The following code is for a sharepoint redirect, just add it to a content editor web part

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://MYSERVERNAME.com/Pages/default.aspx">

1	<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=http://MYSERVERNAME.com/Pages/default.aspx">

This code, below, taken from http://pathtosharepoint.com will ADD the quicklaunch using a CEWP

<!-- Load and display Quick Launch - iframe version -->
<!-- Questions and comments: Christophe@PathToSharePoint.com -->
<!-- Paste the URL of the source page below: -->

< iframe id="SourcePage" style="display:none;" src="http://[YourSite]/default.aspx" onload="DisplayQuickLaunch()"></iframe>
<script type="text/javascript">
function DisplayQuickLaunch()
{
var placeholder = document.getElementById("LeftNavigationAreaCell");
var quicklaunchmenu = null;
var SourcePage = document.getElementById("SourcePage");
try {
if(SourcePage.contentDocument)
// Firefox, Opera

{quicklaunchmenu = SourcePage.contentDocument.getElementById("LeftNavigationAreaCell") ;}
else if(SourcePage.contentWindow)
// Internet Explorer
{quicklaunchmenu = SourcePage.contentWindow.document.getElementById("LeftNavigationAreaCell") ;}
else if(SourcePage.document)
// Others?
{quicklaunchmenu = SourcePage.document.getElementById("LeftNavigationAreaCell") ;}
}
catch(err) { alert ("Loading failed");}
var allDescendants = quicklaunchmenu.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (i=0;i<allDescendants.length;i++) {
allDescendants[i].removeAttribute("id");
allDescendants[i].removeAttribute("onclick");
allDescendants[i].removeAttribute("onfocus");
allDescendants[i].removeAttribute("onmouseover");
}
placeholder.innerHTML = quicklaunchmenu.innerHTML;
}
</script>

< iframe id="SourcePage" style="display:none;" src="http://[YourSite]/default.aspx" onload="DisplayQuickLaunch()"></iframe>

function DisplayQuickLaunch()

{

var placeholder = document.getElementById("LeftNavigationAreaCell");

var quicklaunchmenu = null;

var SourcePage = document.getElementById("SourcePage");

try {

if(SourcePage.contentDocument)

// Firefox, Opera

{quicklaunchmenu = SourcePage.contentDocument.getElementById("LeftNavigationAreaCell") ;}

else if(SourcePage.contentWindow)

// Internet Explorer

{quicklaunchmenu = SourcePage.contentWindow.document.getElementById("LeftNavigationAreaCell") ;}

else if(SourcePage.document)

// Others?

{quicklaunchmenu = SourcePage.document.getElementById("LeftNavigationAreaCell") ;}

}

catch(err) { alert ("Loading failed");}

var allDescendants = quicklaunchmenu.getElementsByTagName("*");

for (i=0;i<allDescendants.length;i++) {

allDescendants[i].removeAttribute("id");

allDescendants[i].removeAttribute("onclick");

allDescendants[i].removeAttribute("onfocus");

allDescendants[i].removeAttribute("onmouseover");

}

placeholder.innerHTML = quicklaunchmenu.innerHTML;

}

</script>

18 Oct 2013

Migrating to Windows 2008 R2 from a 32-bit (x86) Server

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, Server Administration | 0

Overview Since Windows 2008 R2 only comes in a 64-bit flavor it is impossible to perform an in place upgrade on a Server running on x86 architecture for P2V or for whatever reason. As such, a migration to a new … Read More

12 Oct 2013

Convert a classic based authentication SharePoint 2010 web application into a claims based web application that will use forms based authentication

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, SharePoint Administration | 0

This blog post attempts to bridge the gap between creating a claims based authentication web application versus converting a classic web application to claims, essentially step 1 of this blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mahesm/archive/2010/04/07/configure-forms-based-authentication-fba-with-sharepoint-2010.aspx New-SPAuthenticationProvider – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607878.aspx Here’s how you create a new … Read More

5 Oct 2013

An error has occurred after removal of an extended zone

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: SharePoint Development, Troubleshooting | 0

Let’s say you’ve applied the advice from unextending an extended zone and are now either getting a blank page after re-using the the vanity url or you’re receiving a message that “Something has went wrong” or “An error has occurred”. You ran

Get-SPWebApplication http://sitename.com | Remove-SPWebApplication http://sitename.com -Zone "Intranet"

1	Get-SPWebApplication http://sitename.com \| Remove-SPWebApplication http://sitename.com -Zone "Intranet"

29 Sep 2013

Speed up that slow team site, make it publish and harness the output cache

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: SharePoint Administration | 0

The steps below turn your team site into a team site that is capable of using publishing features and capabilities. But all they really do, from an end user perspective, is optimize how the page loads. These steps are needed to speed up load … Read More

22 Sep 2013

Enable and Use Developer Dashboard to see how your page loads and view metrics.

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, SharePoint Administration, SharePoint Development | 0

Pre-requisites: Site-collection administrator Follow these steps, or ask your admin, to enable the developer dashboard in on demand mode: (green-can use your own values, red-controls outcome, black-don’t change it) 1. Open the SharePoint Management Shell as an admin Type … Read More

14 Sep 2013

Solution wont deploy, error in web.config, and avoiding this

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Troubleshooting | 0

If you ever run into an issue where you or one of your fellow admins went to deploy a solution using PowerShell and did not use the correct parameters, or it was attempted to deploy a solution that was already deployed … Read More

9 Sep 2013

Move SharePoint Server IIS to a different drive

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Server Administration, SharePoint Administration | 0

To move IIS to a different drive is a fairly straightforward procedure. This blog – -> http://blogs.iis.net/thomad/archive/2008/02/10/moving-the-iis7-inetpub-directory-to-a-different-drive.aspx has detailed the steps very neatly. In a nutshell, and to adapt them to a SharePoint install, here is what I recommend. 1. Run … Read More

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