One of the quickest ways to find out information about your installed solutions is to use PowerShell. To do this, login to one of your WFE’s and open SharePoint Management Shell. Then, type in the following command: Get-SPSolution | Export-Csv C:\DeployedSolutions.csv. Open this file on your local machine (or whichever has Excel installed) and dissect as… Continue reading PowerShell – How to retrieve all deployed solutions
I have been using this method for some time now and decided to make a slight change to it. I have been using the PowerShell method found here to find the internal column names for my lists and libraries. It works great. The only problem with this is that I have to modify the script each… Continue reading SharePoint – Retrive the internal column name for lists/libraries using PowerShell
This is an issue I recently faced. I needed to add myself as a site collection administrator to 100+ site collections. I did not want to do this manually because it would have taken too much time. So what did I do, I put it off until I got fed up with having to add… Continue reading PowerShell – Add or remove a site collection administrator from all sites
By default, the FAST search site template is missing. It has to be enabled via PowerShell. Luckily, this is a very simple process. Perform the following steps to enable the template: Login to one of the web front ends Open the SharePoint Management Shell (PowerShell for SharePoint) Type or Copy/Paste in the following making sure… Continue reading Cannot find the FAST site template
Today, I ran across an issue when I went to customize a list with InfoPath. I clicked on the ‘Customize Form’ button and it opened the item view in InfoPath as expected. After I made my changes I went to publish my form. I received the following error message: “InfoPath cannot connect to the server. … Continue reading Cannot publish InfoPath custom list form
