Get notified whenever a SharePoint workflow fails
Requirement Get SharePoint to notify you whenever a workflow fails to start. Solution Configure a SPD notification workflow for the Workflow History list so that it sends you an e-mail every time a...
View ArticlePowerShell script to update all Site Collection Owners
Requirement Update the site collection owners for all sites in your SharePoint farm. You normally wouldn’t do this too often, but this is helpful when you are doing things like migrations from old...
View ArticleMicrosoft SharePoint is not supported with version 4.0.30319.296 of the...
Problem You try to configure SharePoint Diagnostic Studio for SharePoint 2010 and get the following error: Microsoft SharePoint is not supported with version 4.0.30319.296 of the Microsoft .Net...
View ArticleCould not generate mail report.An exception occurred while executing a...
Problem You configure SQL Server Maintenance Plan and set it to e-mail you when the job is complete. When you check the job history, you notice that it fails to send the e-mail and the following...
View ArticleSpeed up SharePoint using the IIS Blobcache
Requirement You can turn on the disk-based caching feature in IIS for your SharePoint sites. By default, this stores picture, video, and audio files on disk so that the files do not need to be...
View ArticleSave document library as template option not available
Problem The Save Document Library as Template option is not available on the default Documents library that gets created by the site publishing feature. Cause This is a known issue in SP 2010 and a...
View ArticlePowerShell script to generate report on all documents in Site Collection...
Requirement Generate a report for all documents in a site collection (including metadata) without having access to the SharePoint Management Shell or any third party add-on. Solution This script uses...
View ArticleDocuments opening in Offline Mode
Problem An excel document consistently opens in ‘offline’ mode. Cause If you are using your Office Document Cache as temporary storage for SharePoint files, the Office Document Cache may be corrupted....
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2 breaking scripts using SPServices / jquery
Problem: We have some scripts that use jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. After installing Service Pack 2 for SharePoint 2010, several of the scripts stopped working. Cause: We found that the...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2 no longer allows unresolvable e-mail addresses
Problem: Before Service Pack 2, you could specify an e-mail address in the cc’ field of a workflow form. After installing Service Pack 2, this is no longer possible and you will get the following error...
View ArticleAutomatically download versions of a file in SharePoint to your computer
Requirement Download all versions of a file in SharePoint to a local folder on your computer. Solution Use the PowerShell script below to do this. You can run this script as a normal user as long as...
View ArticleGet list of Site Collection Admins (SCA) using PowerShell
Requirement Generate a list of SCAs across all your SharePoint site collections. Solution function Get-SCA { param($site) $link = $site+"/_layouts/mngsiteadmin.aspx" $result = Invoke-WebRequest $link...
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