A few great SharePoint references
I’m sorry that this week’s blog is just a list of my thoughts on a few really great tools that I had absolutely nothing to do with; but, love to use and am very thankful that these people have written … Read More
Central Admin running with vanity URL and on SSL
Running SharePoint sites on Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is critical to information security and SharePoint Central Administration is no exception. You can configure central admin to run on SSL by creating a CName record in DNS that resolves to your … Read More
Getting Distributed Cache started on SharePoint 2016 Beta 2
First of all I’d like to thank mvan for the post located here: http://www.sharepointconsultant.ch/2013/03/07/adding-a-local-sharepoint-2013-development-server-as-a-cache-host-to-appfabrics-cache-cluster/ please read this before continuing, as the following post assumes you’ve read mvan’s issue. The distributed cache would not start During a recent install of SharePoint … Read More
Modify the view of SharePoint Discussion board.
NOTE: These instructions only apply to SharePoint farms that are Pre July 2014 CU, if you are working with a farm that is Post July 2014 CU please visit ChaddTalks for KT on creating modified view. If your farm … Read More
Change the look of Central Admin
You can change the look of Central admin using one of the OOB themes by navigating to the Change the Look page that is normally under Look and Feel on the settings page (_layouts/Settings.aspx). There is one exception though, that … Read More
HNSC is recommended best practice
Straight from Microsoft – USE HOST NAMED SITE COLLECTIONS – recommended in SharePoint 2010 and preferred in SharePoint 2013 Main reason: Uses less resources, only uses one web application pool. Allows a seemingly unlimited number of vanity named site collections … Read More
SPCommon.png image tattoo on my page – get it off
If you ever run into an issue where your site is showing the spcommon.png, as shown here: Follow these steps to remove it: Open the page in IE Press f12 click the image to see it larger Select the … Read More
Creating Host Named Site Collections
The following is based on the Exam Ref 70-331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 by Troy Lanphier. Check out Kirk Evan’s blog for more background behind HNSC – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2012/03/27/what-every-sharepoint-admin-needs-to-know-about-host-named-site-collections.aspx
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#Build a web application and place an empty site collection in it, a site collection with no site, e.g. pick site later or create with powershell as follows: $applicationPool = "SharePoint - 443" $ServiceAcct = "domain\content" #Account normally used when creating a web app via guie, atin $svcacctmail = "content@domain" $WebApp = "SharePoint HNSC Web Application" $webAppURL = "https://ws2013app/" $contentDB = "WSS_Content_TopSiteEmpty" #If creating for SharePoint 2013, sent the claims authentication provider by calling the new-spauthenticationprovider cmdlet into a variable as: $Provider = New-spauthenticationprovider #Create the example web application, as mentioned above, either with gui, and pick later, or New-SPWebApplication -ApplicationPool $applicationPool -ApplicationPoolAccount $serviceAcct -Name $WebApp -Port 443 -databaseName $contentDB -securesocketslayer #If doing for 2013 New-SPWebApplication -ApplicationPool $applicationPool -ApplicationPoolAccount $serviceAcct -Name $WebApp -Port 443 -AuthenticationProvider (New-SPAuthenticationProvider) -databaseName $contentDB -secureSocketsLayer #If you get a pound sand message on first attempt to load the SP 2013 site, navigate to the settings page under <URL>/_layouts/15/settings.aspx and deactivate MDS #Now that the web app is there, build the empty site collection $primarySiteCollectionOwnerAcct = "domain\someName" $PrimarySCOwnerEmail = "webcontent@domain" New-SPSite -URL $webAppURL -OwnerAlias $primarySiteCollectionOwnerAcct -OwnerEmail $PrimarySCOwnerEmail #Build some content databases new-SPContentDatabase -Name $HNSC1DB -WebApplication $WebApp -WarningSiteCount 0 -MaxSiteCount 1 #Now build some HNSC's $HNSC1Name = "Hockeytown Usa" $HNSC1URL = "https://hockeytown.domain.com" $HNSC1DB = "WSS_Content_HockeyTown" New-SPSite -url $HNSC1URL -HostHeaderWebApplication $webAppURL -Name $HNSC1Name -ownerAlias $PrimarySiteCollectionOwnerAcct -owneremail $PrimarySCOwnerEmail -contentDatabase $HNSC1DB $HNSC2Name = "Baseball city" $HNSC2URL = "https://baseball.domain.com" $HNSC2DB = "WSS_Content_HaveYouSeenMyBaseball" New-SPSite -url $HNSC2URL -HostHeaderWebApplication $webAppURL -Name $HNSC2Name -ownerAlias $PrimarySiteCollectionOwnerAcct -owneremail $PrimarySCOwnerEmail -contentDatabase $HNSC2DB |
Sometimes you have to be forceful
When a solution was not correctly removed from a farm, features will be left behind, because they were not deactivated and removed. In cases, where those features are not being altered, it is possible to re-deploy a solution using -force. … Read More
A few Random development tricks – slighted trickery
CSS to block quicklaunch etc.
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<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
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<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
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<!-- 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> |
An error has occurred after removal of an extended zone
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
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Get-SPWebApplication http://sitename.com | Remove-SPWebApplication http://sitename.com -Zone "Intranet" |
Enable and Use Developer Dashboard to see how your page loads and view metrics.
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
Exporting and Importing – Cannot import site due to wrong template
When you’re migrating sites using export-spweb and import-spweb, you might receive an error message on the import, when reviewing the import log, and in your shell, similar to this: FatalError: Cannot import site. The exported site is based on the template … Read More
SharePoint Virtual Labs and SP 2010 vs 2013
Sorry to be blogurgitating this week. Here’s a really good technet site with a load of virtual labs: SharePoint Server 2010 Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Developing KPIs and Scorecards with PerformancePoint Services Web Content Management Visual Upgrade Advanced … Read More