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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Snipping Tool in Windows Server 2012

Snipping tool is very nice tool for capturing the screens which comes with latest versions of Windows. In this article lets see how to enable the snipping tool in Windows Server 2012. Snipping tool is not installed in the default installation of Windows OS. We have to enable it manually. Steps: 1....

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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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SharePoint 2013 Certification

Below is the links to know about initial release for Certifications in SharePoint 2013: Exam 70-331: Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-331 Exam 70-332:Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 http://...

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