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 developed an event handler and need to deploy it on production server. My production server is built on Windows 2008 Enterprise Server 64 Bit and there was only one installation on server i.e. SharePoint Server 2010. Now I need to install my assembly in to GAC. I copied my .dll to production server. Then … Installing assembly in GAC in Windows Server 2008 : Resolved
I was executing a command using stsadm and when I hit enter it was displaying an error stating that “Command Line Error”. Everything was perfect from my end but it was weird to getting this error. So finally I could resolve this. For information how to resolve this find my earlier blog post here. Though … Command Line Error by STSADM : Resolved
I was trying to register custom profiledeletehandler by using stsadm command line utility. My command, code and assembly were perfect. But even then when I was trying to execute stsadm then it was displaying “The given assembly or codebase was invalid”. Humnnn what could be the problem then after doing some research I came to … Resolved: The given assembly or codebase was invalid error by stsadm command
Problem: Inside variation labels, if we click on create hierarchies button nothing happens. Scenario: I had a publishing site with variation enabled on a specific port. I backed up the site and restore it on a web site hosted on another server. This new website is on different port. Now i created a new variation … Create Hierarchies Link in SharePoint Variation Site is not working : Resolved
So once again I am back with a blog post… Today we will see that how to import a spreadsheet inside a custom list with defined columns. We are ready for production deployment for an application. This application contains the master data for cities all over the world. Client provided us the list of 9000 … Exports excel data to SharePoint custom list with desired column names!
I have a solution that contains SharePoint dll’s reference. Whenever I run the solution, start page get crash and show me this error. “Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Search, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.” Well every time I run … Resolved: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Search, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’ or one of its dependencies…
During my SharePoint project i need to clean up the site for better performance. So first thing i started to delete the closed web parts from web part pages. As there were so many web part pages in the application so i decide to write a web application that can delete the closed web parts … Resolved: The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again.
Well as we know that we can extend a SharePoint site for different zone other than default with different port number and host header. In extended site creation, a new site creates on IIS pointing to a new virtual directory on server. This new virtual directory has its own web.config file for extended site. But … How to remove/delete SharePoint extended site placed in different zones