In SharePoint site you can see usually a lot of groups. Sometimes administrator gets a task to add user to several groups. If it’s 3-5 groups you can do it manually, but if you need to add user to 30 groups? I’m too lazy to do it manually and too smart not do it at all. (read more...)

While migration system and its data to SharePoint application there was a task to save logs of change from old system data. Some authors of changes have already retired - some of them are disabled in Active Directory, others – deleted at all. (read more...)

Today I wanted to execute PowerShell ISE on one of SharePoint Server, but I couldn’t find it. I searched for it but on this server I haven’t installed it. I have already forgotten how to add PowerShell ISE to Windows Server 2008R2. It’s not included in default settings because PowerShell ISE is not necessary for Windows Server. And I think it’s true. (read more...)

Once one friend of mine was making s SharePoint web-part with a lot of available filters. He couldn’t make it with only list so webPart was the only way. (read more...)

Once I needed a CAML query for selecting elements with non-empty column. I wanted to select all the users with name detected (filled) and with OS "Windows".

First I decided to use <Neq> construction and <Value Type='Text'></Value>. I thought it’s an analog for var != "". But the result was wrong. (read more...)

In a list with a field type “Choice” you can know available options of this field from codebehind without reading all list values and not making them unique with Distinct(). Especially, you can’t just read and make Distinct() list values if your field allows multiple choice or if you don't have all options. (read more...)

Today I needed to know a quantity of SharePoint List. Somewhy SharePoint doen't give this information using common tools. But using PowerShell it appeared to do easy. (read more...)

Working with SharePoint lists I often use lookup values. But when I write C# solutions for lists I have some difficulties with LookUp Values. Trying to get LookUp Value as string it looks like "213;#lookup value". (read more...)

For deleting SharePoint groups you can use SharePoint Designer. For this you should open site in SPDesigner, in left column goto "Site Groups", select groups for deleting and press Delete button on keyboard or in ribbon. But this process doesn't always work. And when I wanted to remove user groups SPDesigner hanged and reported error of deleting. (read more...)

If you made a developer machine for SharePoint on Windows 7 (x64), you must remember - run visual studio only "Run as administrator" even if your account is administrator for developing SharePoint solutions.

Or you can turn off ULC but I don't recomend it.