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FBA users when opening documents get either prompted with login or MS Word opens up the document and it is either blank or just a new document. The way I found around this problem is to force them to download the document by going to Central Admin \ Select webapplication\ Authentication provider\ Set Enable Client…

In a publishing site even if anonymous users have been granted permission on all the level i.e in Central admin, in Site and if permissions are broken then in List\ Libraries but still they get prompted to enter username\ password to view the list\ list items. To fix this issue deactivate a hidden feature by…

Creating a site collection from site 1. Below I am creating a new database since my site is a publishing site I will be creating a blank publishing site. Create a new site in its own DB using the below cmstemplate a. $w=Get-SPWebApplication(“http://shareptapptest:9002”) b. New-SPContentDatabase “WSS_Content_Internet_Hosted_Sites_3” -DatabaseServer “shareptDBtest” -WebApplication $w c. new site: here I…

Namespaces to refer in Visual studio for using LinQ using System.Linq; using Microsoft.SharePoint.Linq; using System.Collections.Generic; Generate Entity classes using SPMetal Run the following command to generate it spmetal /web:http:// /code: Creating a Join between two list UserAccounts and Invoices List UserAccounts have Account, Name List Invoices have Account, Amount, Paid //First refer the Datacontext class…

The good part about it is that using this option everything within a site collection will be backed up including workflows! Backup Process Backup of the site collection can be done using CA but the restore has to be done using power shell command, I am going to take you step by step through both…

SharePoint gives the ability to create site collections with its own domain name while the web application has a different domain name, these site collections are called hostname site collections and their creation and behavior are different from regular path-based site collections which by default are created under http://sp2010/SITES/XYZ/. Below are 10 differences that I…

The cool part about SP2010 is that as soon as it sees styles in the custom CSS file, it will add it to the Style drop-down, I made a quick documentation for a colleague so I thought would blog it as well. You see the “Styles” in the Ribbon that is where I want to…

1. The certificate is already imported in IIS 2. I am using a wildcard cert here but I believe it will be pretty much the same for other types of certs as well. 3. Port 443 is configured to point to this web application also. 4.web applications are using host headers Open up IIS 7.0…

This blog walks through the process of configuring a SharePoint server so that office documents open up in the browser by default for reading and editing. Also for those who are new to Office web apps, Installing Office Web app is the only way to achieve this. Blog assumes that SharePoint is already installed and…