SharePoint Online Software Boundaries and Limits

Size limit and Number of items that can be synced 1.     You can sync up to 20,000 items in your One Drive for Business library. This includes folders and files. 2.   You can sync up to 5,000 items in a SharePoint library. This includes folders and files....

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Could not load type ‘Microsoft.AnalysisServices.SpAddin.ReportGallery.ReportGalleryView’

Recently, I have installed the power pivot in SharePoint 2013 and then configured the power pivot service application in the Central Administration. I tried creating a Pivot Gallery and it is successful. When I opened the pivot gallery library, it is showing the below error:  I am sure...

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SharePoint 2013 / Office 365

I wanted to try some proof of concepts using SharePoint 2013 and been looking for various easy options to get the SP 2013. Hence I wanted to list the easy ways to get SharePoint 2013 for the readers. Below is the list: Office 365 Trial : https://products.office.com/en-us/business/compare-office-365-for-business-plans On-Premises Deployment: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-sharepoint-server-2013 Windows...

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OWA web parts in SharePoint 2013

When I tried finding the OWA web parts in the SharePoint 2013 OOTB web parts, I couldn't find the web parts and “Outlook Web App” category is also not available. I was thinking it is deprecated or not available in SharePoint  2013. After searching, I found the following solution....

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Site Administration in SharePoint 2013

In this article, we will have know how does Site Administration in SharePoint 2013 looks. Here is the screenshot of SharePoint 2013 site administration. ...

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The Server could not complete your request SharePoint Designer 2013

Problem: When I tried opening SharePoint 2013 site in SharePoint Designer, I got the following error: When I clicked on Details, it opened another dialog and continuously pop up window is opening and not able to open the SharePoint site.  Finally got an error message Solution:  ...

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News feeds not working in SharePoint 2013 - microsoft.office.server.microfeed.microfeedexception

To know about Micro Blogging in SharePoint 2013, read this post. When I tried to use the News Feed Feature in SharePoint 2013, it thrown exception: microsoft.office.server.microfeed.microfeedexception The below is the screenshot:   Solution: As I mentioned in the earlier post about...

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Migrate SharePoint 2010 to 2013

In this article, we will learn how to migrate SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013. This migration is applicable for OOTB features migration not for Custom Solution migration to SharePoint 2013. Steps:       1. Change the Authentication mode of SharePoint 2010 application...

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Audit Logging in SharePoint 2013

Audit Logging gives the following information in Site Collection: Opening or downloading documents, viewing items in lists, or viewing item properties Editing items Checking out or checking in items Moving or copying items to another location in the site Deleting or restoring items Editing content...

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Unexpected error occurred while communicating with Administration Service

Scenario: I ran into the following issue when attempting to access  Fast search features such as: 1. FAST Search keywords 2. Fast Search site promotion and demotion 3. Fast search user context Solution: I checked my Administrators group in the SP server. Fast Search ADMIN account...

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Sign in as different user in SharePoint 2013

In all the versions of SharePoint, we have option for signing in as different user which helps us in various scenarios. Also, it helps in testing purposes. But in SharePoint 2013, we do not have this option.  In this article we will know how to achieve this: 1. When you log in to a SharePoint site,...

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SharePoint 2013 Installation Steps

We will explore more on SP 2013 in our blog in the forthcoming posts. So, we will start with Installing SP 2013.  You will have step by step screenshot for installing SP 2013 in the below document: Happy Configurin...

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The feature being activated is a Site scoped feature which has a dependency on a Site Collection scoped feature which has not been activated. Please activate the following feature before trying again: SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa

Some times while activating the Publishing feature in SharePoint through the options in Site Settings we will get this error: The feature being activated is a Site scoped feature which has a dependency on a Site Collection scoped feature which has not been activated. Please activate the following feature before trying again: SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa Reason: The...

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Export SharePoint Group to Excel using PowerShell

$siteUrl="SiteURLHere" $groupName="GroupNametoExport" $Output = @("GroupName|Name|Login|Email|Department|Title") $web = Get-SPWeb $siteUrl $site = $web.Site $rootWeb = $site.RootWeb $UserList = $rootWeb.Lists["User Information List"] $web.SiteGroups[$groupName].Users|%{$user = $UserList.GetItemById($_.ID) if($user -ne $null) { $JobTitle = $user["JobTitle"] $Department = $user["Department"] } $Output...

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Import Excel to SharePoint List using PowerShell

# Import the .csv file, and specify manually the headers, without column name in the file $contents = Import-CSV ‘C:\Input.csv' -header("Employee ID", "Employee Name") # Web URL $webURL = “SITEURL here” $web = Get-SPWeb -Identity $webURL $listName = "ListNameHere" $list= $web.Lists["$listName"] # Iterate for each list column foreach ($row in $contents ) { $item = $list.Items.Add(); $item["Employee...

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Import Users from Excel to SharePoint using PowerShell

# Import the .csv file, and specify manually the headers, without column name in the file $userList=IMPORT-CSV C:\UserToUpload.csv -header("GroupName","UserName") #Get the site name to the variable $web = Get-SPWeb SiteURLHere foreach ($user in $userList) { $groupName = $web.SiteGroups[$userList.group] $user = $web.Site.RootWeb.EnsureUser($userList.user) $groupName.AddUser($user) } Write-Host...

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Add Users to SharePoint Group using PowerShell

#Get the site name to the variable $web = Get-SPWeb SitURLHere #Get the group name to the variable $groupName = $web.SiteGroups["Group Name Here"] #Assign user to variable $user = $web.Site.RootWeb.EnsureUser(“User ID Here”) #Add user to group $groupName.AddUser($user) Write-Host -ForegroundColor green "User Added Successfully";...

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Create Site Collection in Separate Content Database in SharePoint

Problem: When a “Site Collection” is created in a web application, then the proceeding Site Collections created in the same “Web Application” will use the Same Content DB. This creates problems in the following scenarios: 1. Size of the one Site Collection grows large then it will affect the...

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