So this is old school stuff but maybe it helps somebody someday. I know that SharePoint 2010 and it’s Server Side Object Model are pretty much out of fashion. In one of our client’s SharePoint 2010 farm, we had to schedule the SharePoint Farm backup script. The purpose of the script was to take the … SharePoint Farm Backup using Server Side Object Model
Scenario We had to figure out how many pages in our site are broken (throwing 404 status code). But the problem was that we implemented a custom designed error page for broken ones. This page was designed in the context of site look and feel, so we associated the site master page as well with this … Get 404 Status Code from Custom Error Page.
Create SQL Server Alias in SharePoint Farm Recently we ran in to a problem, where our production application suddenly started throwing 502 errors due to performance degradation. After analyzing few things, we suspect that our database server has some problems. As this was a production server and we didn’t want to keep this problem for … SharePoint Best Practices : Part 1
Recently i was working on a Intranet Portal and most part of it was based on documents collaboration. So to easily find a document i configured search for the site. I created a new content source in existing search service application and crawl the source. It was crawled successfully without showing an error or warning, … SharePoint search is returning 500 internal server error page : Resolved
At times we need to get rid of feature(s) from SharePoint farm, those are no longer required. This is kind of cleaning and managing your SharePoint Farm. Most of the time due to inappropriate procedure or by using a 3rd party tool, Feature gets removed but it still displays on Feature.aspx page. When you try … Remove orphan feature(s) entry from SharePoint’s ManageFeatures.aspx
Recently i faced an issue in a SharePoint site while i was trying to add a FBA user in a site group. On searching the user in people picker, it was not showing the FBA user(s) to select. Every time i searched the FBA user(s) through people picker, it returned me only user(s) from AD. … PeoplePicker not showing FBA users (Claims Based Authentication)
I created a share point time job using visual studio 2010. I deployed that job using VS and i got some error while debugging this job. I rectified the error and again deployed this but when i debugged again my timer job picking up the old references. For my wonder i deployed this again and … Proper Deployment Steps for SharePoint Timer Job Service
“The filtering process could not load the item. This is possibly caused by an unrecognized item format or item corruption.” In our production server this warning was generating with many items while crawling sites for search. Due to this we were unable to find the content of our custom pages during search. After a long … Search Crawling Error “The filtering process could not load the item…” in SharePoint 2010 : Resolved
By default a SharePoint 2010 publishing site uses default.aspx as its welcome page. There are so many conditions where we use our custom web part page as the default page for our publishing site in place of general default.aspx. The best example for this is an application dashboard as the default page. Though its very … Set Welcome Page using PowerShell : SharePoint 2010
When I worked on MOSS 2007 I wrote an article regarding Hide View All Site Content and Recycle Bin in Quick Launch: Resolved and this article is one of the most popular article @ my blog. But that article was suitable only for MOSS 2007. As there are lots of changes from MOSS 2007 to … Hide View All Site Content and Recycle Bin in Quick Launch SharePoint 2010: Resolved