Today I was surprised to see duplicated records in SharePoint list which I imported and updated from XML-files. So I started to find a solution to find duplicated records, see them and delete. (read more...)

While creating a test SharePoint 2010 Farm I have installed all the software, solution, attached content database and wanted to see the result being on one of front-end servers, sp10wfe1. Test portal URL is http://sp10. So I entered URL in browser http://sp10 and wanted to see a site. Browser asked me about login and password, I entered them once, twice. On the third try it just show empty window. (read more...)

Unfortunately, there’s no equivalent for "Truncate" in SharePoint Lists. It’s not very good. If your list has more than 1000 items and you need to load only new data to list, you need to remove all existing items and to add new ones. This task is easy to code but not very fast to execute. (read more...)

SharePoint portal in active company grows like an anthill. Setting limits of SharePoint sites can protect from problems with disk spaces, but it makes more users requests that not all the administrators like. So I think a good tone not to set limits on SharePoint sites. (read more...)

Using this method you can copy attachments from one list item to another. You can add it to SharePoint workflow or any other action. (read more...)

If you have a SharePoint Farm and you need to update only one file, for example, in LAYOUTS dir (c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\...), there’s no need to go to every server and copy file.

Using PowerShell and some strings of code below you can easily do it. (read more...)

If you need to go through some steps of disaster recovery plan with your SharePoint 2010 Farm after falling down your MS SQL server (of course if it’s not on the same machine with your SharePoint), there are some steps to do it. I’ll describe steps how to install another instance of MS SQL Server 2008 R2 with another name and actions after restoring databases from backup. (read more...)

Using PowerShell it's rather easy to find information list. In messages about denied access (especially in custom SharePoint solutions) you can see in URL ID of denided list.

To find-out where it is you can using this script:  (read more...)

Sometimes you may need to show information in SharePoint list only how you want it but not users. You create a list view and hope than other users will not change anything. But to be more assured that list view will be the same as you created it, you need to disable a change of list view in SharePoint list. (read more...)

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...)