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Computing Hash of SharePoint Files
Recently we had to compare master pages of hundreds of sites to find out, which ones contain customizations. Comparing the content of files means in practice typically to compare the hash values...
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How to process the output of the stsadm EnumAllWebs operation
Recently I wrote about how to process the output of the Test-SPContentDatabase PowerShell cmdlet. If you use the EnumAllWebs operation of the stsadm command, you have similar options as well. However,...
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People Picker is very slow when searching users
The environment of a customer of us consists of several Active Directory domains, a few of them were recently migrated from former domains. Users of the SharePoint sites complained that when they try...
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The SharePoint Time Machine
Assume you have a SharePoint list with a lot of items. The list supports versioning and you should provide a snapshot of the items at a given time in the past. As you know, the Versions property (of...
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Change in the User Resolution in SharePoint 2013 People Picker
After a SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 migration our users complained, that in the multiple Active Directory domain environment they have (I wrote about it recently) the People Picker does not...
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Waiting for Project Server Queue Operations in Server Side Code
Recently we found a bug in our server-side Project Server code. Our goal was to set some project-related enterprise custom field values. Before setting the values, we tested, if the project is...
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Displaying Notifications and Status Messages from a SharePoint-based...
Assume the following requirements: We should create a Single Page Application (SPA) (no SharePoint App!) that reads data from SharePoint using the JavaScript client object model, allows the user to...
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NullReferenceException in the Content Editor Web Part when Trying to Upload...
Recently a user complained, that when he tries to upload a photo in a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP)… … an error is displayed. We found the following relevant line in the ULS logs: 11/16/2015...
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Recovering Passwords for SharePoint Managed Accounts
We have a SharePoint 2013 farm on a Windows 2008 R2 server. Recently we found this error in the Windows event logs in relation with the web application pool account: Event ID 1511 – Windows cannot find...
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Delete a SharePoint List Template Programmatically
Last week I had to “reproduce” a custom list having a rather complex structure from a root web site into a sub web site. I mean, I had to create another list having the same fields and views like the...
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PowerShell equivalents of Stsadm sync operations
Recently we had an issue with the synchronization of user profile data to the user list of a SharePoint site collection. Although all of the user e-mail addresses were synchronized from the Active...
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Display Closed Risks Using Strikethrough Text on Project Server
As you probably have already seen, the name of the closed tasks (the ones having 100% completeness) is displayed using a strikethrough text in the All Tasks view of a task list in SharePoint. For...
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Highlighting Closed Risks by Setting Their Color
Just after I implemented a solution to display closed risks using strikethrough text, the users suddenly had a new idea. They meant it would be even better, if the whole row, I mean the text of each...
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How to Set a SharePoint Document Library to Read-Only Mode
Recently we had to archive a few document libraries on our SharePoint farm. The document libraries may have they own permission setting on the library level, and / or at the folder, and / or the...
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List View Threshold Causing Project Server Synchronization Failures
Yesterday we found a lot of errors in the Project Server queue job history (PWA Settings / Manage Queue Jobs). The Job State was Failed But Not Blocking Correlation, the Job Type was of type Reporting...
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Visual Studio Build Error: Could not copy the file because it was not found
Recently we got a bunch of errors when building a project in Visual Studio 2013, complaining about missing content files: Could not copy the file "C:\projects\OurProject\images\image1.png" because it...
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Getting the Item Count of all Lists of all Sub-Sites via a Single Request...
Recently I had a task to get the item count of all lists of all Project Web Sites (PWS) of a Project Server instance from a client-side application. Note, that the PWSs are located directly under the...
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Test On Demand PDF Conversion without Document Libraries via PowerShell
If you had to convert Word documents to PDFs using the Word Automation Services in SharePoint 2010, you had to store the files at least temporary in document libraries. That was true, even if you have...
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Access Denied when Setting Group Properties as Group Owner
We have a SharePoint group whose members should administer group membership of other, business-related SharePoint groups. We assigned this group as a Group Owner to the other groups, thus they have the...
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How to get the value of a Project Server Enterprise Custom Field via the...
About two years ago I posted a code about how to set the value of a Project Server Enterprise Field via the managed client OM. Again and again I get the question how to get the value, once it is set...
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