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SharePoint Best Practices : Part 1

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

SharePoint search is returning 500 internal server error page : Resolved

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

Update custom list’s feature reference | Update custom list’s feature id reference.

Disclaimer: Approach used in this blog post is risky and not recommended. The idea of this post is to just understand the insight and sharing my experience with my blog readers. If still you want to try this for any situation then please do this at your own risk. We earlier created a custom list Update custom list’s feature reference | Update custom list’s feature id reference.

Download Files/Images from SharePoint Libraries using PowerShell

I consigned a task to backup all files inside different document libraries of a SharePoint site on hard disk. We need to reorganize the entire site and this site comprises so many document libraries. So downloading documents one by one is a gigantic task as the site has gigs of docs. Alternative option is to Download Files/Images from SharePoint Libraries using PowerShell

Failed to open the default internet browser SharePoint : Resolved

Recently i uninstalled Chrome browser from my machine. After that when i tried to open Central Administration then below mentioned error popped up as message.“Failed to open the default internet browser. An Internet browser is not  installed or has not been configured to be your default browser“I checked the target of Central Administration and found Failed to open the default internet browser SharePoint : Resolved

Installing assembly in GAC in Windows Server 2008 : Resolved

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

Command Line Error by STSADM : 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

Resolved: The given assembly or codebase was invalid error by stsadm command

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

Create Hierarchies Link in SharePoint Variation Site is not working : Resolved

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

Exports excel data to SharePoint custom list with desired column names!

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!