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SharePoint 2007 URL Quick List

The following is a list of SharePoint URLs to get to commonly used administrative functions on a MOSS or WSS v3 site. Not all links listed on this page are accessible to all user levels of a site. This is a quick list for speedy reference as compared to tracking down links through the admin screens or for faster jumping around sites within a site collection. Function Add to the URL Notes Add Web Parts Pane ?ToolPaneView=2 Add to the end of the page URL; WILL ONLY WORK IF THE PAGE IS ALREADY CHECKED OUT Create New Site Content                            /_layouts/create.aspx List Template Gallery     /_catalogs/lt Manage Site Collection Administrators /_layouts/mngsiteadmin.aspx Manage Sites and Workspaces /_layouts/mngsubwebs.aspx Manage People /_layouts/people.aspx Manage User Permissions /_layouts/user.aspx Master Page Gallery

SharePoint 2010– Profile Pictures not showing up Correctly

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SharePoint 2010– Profile Pictures not showing up due to incorrect URL Scenario Profile Pictures inside User Profile Service Application for some users show Red X mark Cause This can happen due to 2 reasons 1) Profile Picture was deleted or went missing 2) Due to incorrect URL Question   - How to check the Picture URL associated to the user Answer –  We can check this by right clicking the Picture inside User Profile(Central Administration > Manage Service Application > User Profile Service Application > Manager User Profiles) Search for the user profile and then click on Edit my profile Now Right click on the Picture to click on properties(Picture URL is shown under the Address) Alternate Way –  We can run the following Select query against the Profile DB to get the Picture URL for a User Select PictureURL from UserProfile_full with(nolock) where NTName = 'contoso\user1' When we tried browsing the URL we realized that the URL is incorrect, It wa

How to stop and restart a service struck on stopping/starting:

Step1 : Open PowerShell as Administrator. Get-SPServiceInstance -all |where {$_.TypeName -like "ServiceName*"} (To get the Instance ID of the service causing the problem.) Step 2: run below command for stopping the sercive $srvc = Get-SPServiceInstance "here you have to give service id obtained from the above command" $srvc.Unprovision() Step 3: please run below command for starting the excel service $srvc = Get-SPServiceInstance "here you have to give service id" $srvc.provision()

TCS Interview Questions (June 2015) :

TCS Interview Questions (June 2015) : 1)Name of W3WP process for sand bx solution? 2)Default databases created after SharePoint configuration? 3)Search Topology and databases created in search ? 4)How to identify a WFE ? 5)Powershell Commands for SharePoint Site Backup and Restore ? 6)Steps for configuring UPS and how does synchronization work ? 7)How to deploy GAC WSP ? 8)Differences in SP 2010 & SP2013 ? 9)Steps involved in SP2013 Migration ?(Check List) 10)Web Application is intermittent , how will you troubleshoot ? 11)Steps to add Photo property in UPS ? 12)disaster recovry plan in SharePoint ? 13)What is Log Shipping DB in SharePoint ? 14)Steps to Create SSL ?

What’s new in SharePoint Server 2016 Installation and Deployment

Hi Friends, Here is the Link for What's New in SharePoint 2016 . This article  has been Published by Bill Baer in blogs.technet.com http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2015/05/12/what-s-new-in-sharepoint-server-2016-installation-and-deployment.aspx

Update User Display Name in SharePoint

Update User Display Name in SharePoint: To force a manual sync for the user properties from the Active Directory Set-SPUser -Identity 'domain\userid' –Web http://WebApp:Port –SyncFromAD However to apply a global refresh for all users from the Active Directory we can use this: Get-SPUser –Web http://WebApp:Port | Set-SPUser –SyncFromAD

Troubleshooting steps for SharePoint Alerts not Working

Hi Guys, Found a very helpful article on "Troubleshooting SharePoint Alerts not working" issue. This Microsoft Technet article has very detailed troubleshooting steps to start with.This can also be very helpful in Interviews as this a very common question in most of the interviews. Please find the URL below. Also mentioned the detailed steps below ,in case the URL doesn't work. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13771.troubleshooting-steps-for-sharepoint-alert-email-does-not-go-out.aspx Check Alert Settings: 11)       Go to Central Admin à Manage Web Applications à General Settings- à Click the drop down of General Settings and select General Settings. 22)       Under Alerts section, check if alerts are ON or OFF. 33)       If already enabled, turn it OFF and then ON. 44)       Click OK. Test Connectivity with SMTP server: 11)       Test the connectivity to the SMTP server by using command prompt. 22)       Telnet

Excel Services Fix - "The workbook cannot be opened"

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The workbook cannot be opened ​This is a general issue with many SharePoint users while opening an Excel workbook (.xlsx) in the browser the error "The workbook cannot be opened" or “The site is not added in trusted location”. But if the file is opened with Workbook in the desktop client it will not have any  problems with it. The root cause of this error message is due to below reasons: a)      The URL user is trying to access is not correct/wrong. b)      The document library settings for opening the files in browser mode. So in order to overcome these simple error message we need to make sure that we are using the correct URL and other library settings are in place as per recommendation. a)      On the <document library>: All Documents page, under Library Tools, click Library b)     In the library toolbar, click Library Settings. c)      On the Document Library Settings page, click Advanced Settings. d)     On the Advanced Se

There were Problems searching audiences.please contact system administrator

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SharePoint 2010 Target Audience not working for Trusted Domain As mentioned ion the above screenshot whenever a user had an issue : User is unable to add audience targeting for  a folder on a site. Issue Details :  When the user navigates to the site--> Site settings --> Navigation and at the bottom usrs selects the folder and is trying to add Audience .When the user selects the search user and is able to find the SharePoint group or Security group , user is able to find the group name in the search,however when the user clicks on the people picker the error as in the screenshot is generated. It is a prerequisite for Audience targeting that User Profile service is setup on the SharePoint farm.Only from the SharePoint service we will enable audience targeting.  In my case the user was facing the issue in an extranet environment. There is a trust relationship setup between the extranet domain and the Internal domain. SharePoint Domain : corp.company.com

Internal Server Exception Error SharePoint 2010 Search

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Users complained that they are getting  : Internal Server Exception Error  whenever they search on a SharePoint Portal. This error occurs only on the very first search , when the page is refreshed search results appear normally. Explanation : As the Search Functionality whenever a user searched with their query in the search box the query hits the WFE  and from the WFE the request will be processed to the server on which the Search Query and site settings service is configured (Started). Analysis : After looking into the below logs I searched for the above mentioned service (Search Query and site settings service is configured (Started). on all the servers but this error logs were found only 1 server and this is a WFE. It is marked in bold below. The search is not configured on this server , however I noticed that the service for Search Query and site settings service is started on this WFE. So Ideally this service should be running only on the servers where Search has bee

Email delivery to Sharepoint library failed

Troubleshooting steps: ​Checked the ULS Logs Checked the SMTP Services-->OK  and Logs at  : C:\inetpub\mailroot\Badmail -->OK Checked IIS Manager 6.0 and no issues found. Checked Incoming email settings in the SharePoint Central Administration -->System Settings --> Incoming email settings. Checked the Email settings in the site . ULS Logs Message : The Incoming E-Mail service has completed a batch.  The elapsed time was 00:00:00.  The service processed 0 message(s) in total. Noticed thatt he emails were struck in C:\inetpub\mailroot\Drop Checked the Timer jobs and tried restarting the SharePoint foundation Incoming email service from the server to check if the Timer job is running.The timer job was not found in the running Jobs. Noticed that the Timer Service sv42080oel1191 server was stopped. Restarted teh service and refreshed the C:\inetpub\mailroot\Drop folder and all the emails started clearing. and confirmed that the issue is resolved

Users unable to view term store information in SharePoint 2010

Users unable to view term store information in SharePoint 2010 Solution: • One of the users had fiddled around with the site permissions and made changes resulting in denied access to term store for all the users other than Site collection administrators. • So I went ahead and checked the Taxonomy hidden list permissions for this specific list. • To do that add http://YourSharePointSite/Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList • Once you are there in the Hidden Taxonomy list, check the List permissions. • I found that the permissions has been granted to the Term store groups but NTAuthenticatedusers Group was not granted read access. • Hence I went ahead and added the NTAuthenticated users group to the list for read access. • Users retried and were able to view the Term store.

Error 404 Page Not found when trying to access Ste Collection

Unable to access Site Collection in SharePoint 2010  Error Message:  Error 404 Page Not found • Check the site status in IIS to see if it is started • Try to browse the site from IIS. • Try restarting the site. • Checked the Logs and message says that the AppPool account is unable to connect to the database. • Checked the Content DB in CA and noticed that there are 2 content DBs • Given DB Owner permission on the content DB and retried, got a different error referring to some Microsoft URL. • Checked the Logs in event viewer and found an error :” There is a compatibility range mismatch between the Web server and database” • Checked the Upgrade &Migration from Central Admin CA --> Upgrade and Migration  Review Database Status  WSS_Content_Intranet1 and the status is: Database is too old and upgrade is required • Hence tried running the Test-SPContentDatabase with no go .It returns an error: “Invalid object name 'Webs' “. • Checked the database in

Troubleshooting steps for Site Slowness issues in SharePoint

Troubleshooting steps for Site Slowness issues in SharePoint Check if the issue is for single user or multiple users. Check CPU or memory usage on each server If the issue is for multiple users we need to check if the issue is occurring on any specific WFE. We can check that Site Collection Response is slow as the List View Threshold (LVT) has crossed 5000 items. I recently came across an issue where number of users have complained that the Site collection performance is not up to the expected speed. We checked that the Items in the list has already crossed 5000 items and as a work around we increased the limit from 5000 to 7000 items per list. To do this: • Central Administration -> Select the respective Web Application from Manage Web Applications Screen • In the Ribbon select General SettingsResource Throttling • Scroll Down to “List View Threshold limit” and edit the default value. • As mentioned above this was just a work around and after few days, the issue ha

Microsoft is back with Free Second Shot on MCP Exams through May 31

Hello Readers!! Welcome to 2015!!! Have you set your sights on achieving a new Microsoft certification this year? Microsoft is here .   The very popular "Second Shot" offer is back! Between January 5 and May 31, 2015, take any Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) or Microsoft Dynamics exam, and get a free Second Shot if you fail the first take.  With the full transition to Pearson VUE as the sole exam delivery provider this year, there's a slight difference in the Second Shot process. Find out how to take advantage of this in the Microsoft Announcement here