| By Udayakumar Ethirajulu , on January 20th, 2011 PowerShell always gives the administrator the feel of programming, Basically I am a developer not really much into using the options or menus to do the tasks like backup (I never used the backup option in Central AdministrationJ) Let’s talk about Backup of Site Collection using PowerShell with examples. Syntax: Backup-SPSite <<Site [...] By Udayakumar Ethirajulu , on December 5th, 2010 You might have noticed the following error logged into the EventLog. “Load control template file /_controltemplates/TaxonomyPicker.ascx failed: Could not load type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.TaxonomyPicker’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’.” There is an encoded char issue in .ascx control: Open the TaxonomyPicker.ascx in the 12 hive control templates [...] By Udayakumar Ethirajulu , on December 3rd, 2010 Day 2: How to get help for PowerShell cmdlet, like syntax or list of mandatory/optional parameters to be used with cmdlet. Get-Help is the cmdlet to provide help for the cmdlet. Syntax: Get-Help <<cmdlet>> Example: Let’s get help for Get-Help Get-Help Get-Help By Udayakumar Ethirajulu , on December 2nd, 2010 This is the series of PowerShell Scripts in SharePoint 2010. Learn a cmdlet (command-let) a day. Cmdlet(Command-let) Cmdlet’s are compiled commands installed with PowerShell. When you start “SharePoint 2010 Management PowerShell”, the console starts with pre-loaded cmdlets. Day 1: Get-Command Get-Command cmdlet will return all commandlets registered with PowerShell. -Module [...] By Udayakumar Ethirajulu , on December 2nd, 2010 I was getting the “List does not exist error” for anonymous users, after enabling the debug mode I got the below loooong exception. It doesn’t really point you with the actual error, after couple of digs; I figured that my master page gallery and style library has unique permission, not inheriting from the parent. Inheriting [...] By Udayakumar Ethirajulu , on November 25th, 2010 The site templates can be directly uploaded into “Site Template Gallery” in root site collection. If you want to deploy the Site Template at the SharePoint Farm Level. Use stsadm -addtemplate to upload the stp file. Syntax: Stsadm -o addtemplate -filename <filename> -title <title of template> -description <description of template> [...] By Udayakumar Ethirajulu , on November 8th, 2010 Chris Johnson released a new tool to help setup a SharePoint 2010 developer machine. In order to make this process as easy as possible they have created a series of PowerShell scripts that automate the entire process of building a fully running and ready to go [...] By Udayakumar Ethirajulu , on September 11th, 2010 When configuring the mysite in SharePoint2010 farm, it was started throwing an error “An error has occurred in the claim providers configured from this site collection” Couldn’t figure out the issue by looking logs and events. Also the default accounts displays some junk chars “c:0(.s\true” Resolution: The central administration needs to be accessed [...] By Udayakumar Ethirajulu , on August 29th, 2010 In MOSS 2007, we have used the jQuery to hide the Spelling in Lists (we can also handle this using Shared Services to disable) In SharePoint 2010, we have set of FARM features. Spell Checking is one of them to disable at farm level. Open Central Administration, Click on Farm Features under System Settings. [...] By Udayakumar Ethirajulu , on July 30th, 2010 It’s really strange that Content Query Web Part for document library doesn’t work for anonymous access. “Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation-compatible HTML editor such as Microsoft SharePoint Designer. If the problem persists, contact your Web server administrator.” It looks [...] | |