Push large repository to GitHub using PowerShell
To push a large repository to GitHub is's one approach to do it step by step: Only some commits at a time. Here is how I do it using Powershell: The name of the remote respository…
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PowerShell on Linux / Debian 11 - 'exit' command not working as expected
On my Debian 11 VM, the 'exit' command in a PowerShell script does not work as expected. The script stops working, but the process does not exit either. Now I use this to exit…
Blank / Empty pages when Accessing a Modern Experience page of SharePoint Server Subscription Edition
Resently I installed a new SharePoint Server Subscription Edition but in this case only with the latest security update (https://support.microsoft.com/en us/kb/5002191). When I…
SharePoint User Information List URL (REMINDER)
This is the link to the SharePoint User Information List: https://sharepoint.example.com / catalogs/users/simple.aspx The bold part must be replaced by the SharePoint site…
Cleanup IIS Log using PowerShell
On every SharePoint or IIS server I need the following script: Short Version, e.g. for Windows Task Scheduler powershell command “get childitem path c:\inetpub\logs\logfiles…
SharePoint 2013 Error: An error occurred during the compilation of the requested file, or one of its dependencies.
I have had this exception on SharePoint 2013 pages on several servers after they are running a for one or two days: "An error occurred during the compilation of the requested…
SharePoint 2013: Error in “Products Configuration Wizard” after Update to SP1
Today I got an error on my development farm after I updated SP 2013 to SP1 level. I also removed Visual Studio 2012 from the box and installed Visual Studio 2013. In fact I did…
Troubleshooting: Cannot access Managed Metadata Service Application in SharePoint 2013
In the last couple of months I got several times the following error: The Managed Metadata Service Application was not accessible in the Central Administration. I checked all know…
Get Rid of Orphaned Content Types in SharePoint 2013
One of my customers has a SharePoint 2013 farm with content migrated from SharePoint 2010. In the past on SharePoint 2010 they have had the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting…
SharePoint 2013 People Picker error: “Sorry, we’re having trouble reaching the server.”
I have had a strange error today in my dev lab environment. First I recognized that I could not select users from the People Picker: Sorry, we’re having trouble reaching the…
Create User Profile Sync Connection for SharePoint 2013 by Script (A Supported Approach)
In my last post I wrote about a supported approach to create a user profile sync connection in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell and Internet Explorer automation. In the meanwhile…
InfoPath error & solution: InfoPath cannot open the following form <url> ... The file is not a valid XML document.
Yesterday I had a problem on a new SharePoint 2013 farm that took me some hours to solve it. Problem: I was not able to customize forms (again) using InfoPath on lists after…
Guest Blog Article on Microsoft Blog “Hey, Scripting Guy!”: Learn About Using PowerShell Value Binding by Property Name
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/03/25/learn about using powershell value binding by property name.aspx
SharePoint 2013 Design Packages: Import with PowerShell (Part 2 of 2)
Last Thursday I wrote about “Exporting SharePoint 2013 Design Packages with PowerShell”. Today I’d like to show you the import function. This functions can be used to handle with…
SharePoint 2013 Design Packages: Export with PowerShell (Part 1 of 2)
Last night I search for “export import sharepoint 2013 design packages powershell”. No luck there. – So I created two functions for this purpose. It works nicely : ) The functions…
Gimmick: Write To SharePoint Log using PowerShell functions
In preparation for a deployment project I wrote some PowerShell functions to write messages to the SharePoint ULS. You can download the PowerShell script here:…
New Demo Project Released: SharePoint Web Change Log – An Alternate Notification Feature
I created an alternated notification feature for SharePoint 2010. It’s a demo project for SharePoint 2010. I’ve done it for some practice in SharePoint development and just for…
PowerShell Script “SPFolderImport” for import a whole file system folder to a SharePoint document library using the Content Migration API
The last days I’ve created a PowerShell script that enables you to import a whole file system folder into a SharePoint document library using the SharePoint Content Migration API.…
How to install SharePoint Server 2010 Language Pack SP1.
When you install SharePoint Server 2010 by using the official slipstreamed version that includes SP1 you may get an error while installing SP1 for several language packs. “The…
For MCTs: Classroom Setup Tools for MS Learning Hyper-V machines
(Download link below!) If you set up a MS Learning Classroom with Hyper V and the images provided by MS at the MCT download page you need to deploy the VHD files (and the other VM…
Create WSP (Cab) file on SharePoint Server using SharePoint Built-in functionality
SharePoint Server 2010 and Foundation too has a namespace “Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.Cab”. In this namespace there are all functions you need to create CAB=WSP files. I have…
Error in crawl log: "The SharePoint item being crawled returned an error when attempting to download the item"
Another error in the crawl log: Using Fiddler I figured out that the pages report an “incompatible browser” error if the SharePoint crawler opens that pages. It seems that the…
Demo: Generating Sandboxed Solutions Through Code for SharePoint 2010
Some weeks ago I startet a new private dev project. To reach one of the goals of the project I thought about the possibility to create Sandboxed Solutions at runtime. I’ve…
Minify JavaScript and PowerShell scripts by using PowerShell
There are several tools out there to minify JavaScript files. – You don’t know “minification”? Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minification\ (programming)) Common tools…
Walkaround for common "TaxonomyPicker.ascx" error in Windows Event Log: SharePoint Feature that renames the file
There is a common error in SharePoint 2010: On almost every (web frontend) server you can find this error in the Windows Event Log “Application”: Event Type: Error Event Source:…
BTW: A little trick for development in Visual Studio 2010 – Start PowerShell scripts that need to run in an x64 context by double click from Solution Explorer
For development and some related tasks I use PowerShell, of course. – I store the PowerShell scripts in my projects as part of them. They are part of the source code and they are…
Walkaround for problems accessing a diffrent web by “Linq to SharePoint” inside server code.
At the weekend I tried to access a diffrent SharePoint Web (SPWeb) from inside server code (ASPX application page). Before I created interface classes to the “diffrent SharePoint…
Walkthrough: Create simple WCF Web Service for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010
In this “Walkthrough” I’d like to show you how to create a simple WCF Web Service for SharePoint 2010. This Web Service will provide two methods: Ping = Just as test.…
PowerShell Script for Recreating the Server Cache (related to error in Windows Event Log, Event ID 6482: Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance)
Today I’ve had the error: Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (150CA1DD 02E3 47C0…
Deploying “Fantastic Fourty“ templates of MOSS 2007 on SharePoint 2010
There are the “Fantastic Fourty” templates you all now… They are create for MOSS 2007 and there are no update available for SharePoint 2010… Because of a migration of MOSS 2007 to…
PowerShell Tool to Enumerate the Content Type Usage in SharePoint 2010
A customer of mine has the problem that he wants to remove a Web Content Type but SharePoint says the content type is still in use. Therefore I created a tool for enumerating all…
“SPWebPSConsole”: Web based PowerShell Console for SharePoint (A new project on Codeplex)
This project is a stand alone clone of my project „Web based PowerShell Console” released on 2011 09 02 on Codeplex and in this blog article:…
Access Site Collection Settings of a SharePoint Online site.
On a SharePoint Online site there is no “official” link to the Site Collection Administration page. But you can access them by typing the URL in the browser: http://<your.domain…
“WebPSConsole”: Web based PowerShell Console (A new project on Codeplex)
Starting at 12th of September 2011 I'll be freelancer. – In August I had some vacation days to spend. – So I created a new project for me – and for you. I call it "Web based…
Walkthrough: Deploy ClickOnce Application as SharePoint 2010 Solution Package
In some projects there was a need to run code on the client machine for interaction with SharePoint. If’ve realized this kind of applications as “ClickOnce” apps. It’s possible to…
SharePoint PowerShell Timer Jobs: Run PowerShell scripts in SharePoint Timer Service context.
I’ve created a new project that combines my two primary technical passions: SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell. The project “SharePoint PowerShell Timer Jobs” lets you create, modify…
SharePoint Warm Up – Now with “Timeout”
In January 2011 I published a SharePoint Warm Up script based on PowerShell. Some days ago blog reader Tamas published an comment: https://blog.kenaro.com/2011/01/27/sharepoint…
Walkthrough/Solution for Workflow Error in SharePoint 2010 State Machine Workflow: Event "OnWorkflowActivated" on interface type "Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.ISharePointService" for instance id "<guid>" cannot be delivered.
Today I got the following error and did not find a clear description and solution for it: Error message: “Event "OnWorkflowActivated" on interface type…
Walkthrough: Add List Event Receiver dynamically at runtime in SharePoint 2010
This time a tiny neat walkthrough of how to add an Event Receiver at runtime in SharePoint 2010. Let’s say you have a SharePoint site that your colleagues already use. In this…
PS2EXE: Tool for “converting” PowerShell scripts to “standalone” EXE files
In the last days I created the tool “PS2EXE”. It is able to “convert” PowerShell scripts to “standalone” EXE files. Project site here: http://ps2exe.codeplex.com – It’s ALPHA in…
Walkthrough: Create SharePoint 2010 Workflow Association Form and Initiation Form in Visual Studio 2010 by using Application Pages (Part 2 of 2)
This is Part 2 of 2 that describes the steps 18 to 27 . You will find Part 1 here: https://blog.kenaro.com/2011/04/24/walkthrough create sharepoint 2010 workflow association form…
Walkthrough: Create SharePoint 2010 Workflow Association Form and Initiation Form in Visual Studio 2010 by using Application Pages (Part 1 of 2)
Because of some requests by my blog readers I’d like to show you how to create Workflow Association and Initiation (“Instantiation”) forms in Visual Studio 2010 for use with a…
Walkthrough: Creating a simple Sequential Workflow with a custom Task Form in SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010 (Part 3 of (2+1))
This article belongs to these previous posts: Part 1 Part 2 You should read this article if you have problems to deploy my sample project on Codeplex…
Walkthrough: Deploying a InfoPath 2010 List Form in a Visual Studio 2010 solution package
This is not easy. It took me some days. – Now it works! Here I’ll show you how to create a List Form for a SharePoint List using InfoPath 2010. Therefore you need SharePoint 2010…
Walkthrough: Creating a simple Sequential Workflow with a custom Task Form in SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010 (Part 1 of 2)
In this walkthrough I want to show you how to create a Sequential Workflow with Visual Studio 2010 for use in SharePoint 2010. – I will show how to create a custom Task Form for…
Walkthrough: Creating a simple Sequential Workflow with a custom Task Form in SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010 (Part 2 of 2)
In this walkthrough I want to show you how to create a Sequential Workflow with Visual Studio 2010 for use in SharePoint 2010. – I will show how to create a custom Task Form for…
Error while creating a Enterprise Wiki sub site in SharePoint 2010
A customer of mine had a problem in a it’s SharePoint 2010 farm. An error occurred while creating a sub site of type Enterprise Wiki. The user that tried to create the sub site…
Walkthrough: Create a simple BCS connection with SharePoint Designer 2010
First: You need a SharePoint 2010 platform. You can use Foundation because BCS = Business Connectivity Services former BDC = Business Data Catalog in SharePoint 2007 – included in…
Walkthrough: How to move or copy a SharePoint Designer 2010 List Workflow to another list on the same site or another site.
I had to develop a Holiday Approval Workflow with SharePoint Designer 2010. – I used a “List Workflow”. – Bad mistake! – It’s not possible to copy this kind of workflow to another…
SharePoint Warm Up with PowerShell
Every SharePoint farm needs a warm up After giving the IIS 7.5 Application Warmup a chance… I had to do it in another way… I created a warmup script in PowerShell. Here it is……
Walkthrough: Create custom SharePoint 2010 list form for deployment in a Visual Studio 2010 project – PART 2
This is part 2 of my demo project about “How to create a custom list form…” – See this post for part one: https://blog.kenaro.com/2010/12/29/walkthrough create custom sharepoint…
(Another) error opening a document in a Office Web App of SharePoint 2010: “PowerPoint Web App encountered an error. Please try again.”
… on the SharePoint 2010 with german system language of my customer the message text was “Fehler bei PowerPoint Web App. Wiederholen Sie den Vorgang.” In the SharePoint log I…
Sample Visual Studio 2010 project for creating a custom SharePoint 2010 Ribbon tab on runtime (!)
The related articles on my blog are: Part 1: How To Activate SharePoint Ribbon Tab by JavaScript Code Part 2: Sample Visual Studio 2010 project for creating a custom SharePoint…
How to upload user profile pictures in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell
I’ve created a script for uploading user pictures to the SharePoint 2010 User Profile system. For me it worked very well. But: Use it at your own risk! Here is the script:
How to have a look behind the data source of the XsltListViewWebPart of SharePoint 2010
I want to create a custom field type in a SharePoint 2010 development project (which I want to publish as as “walkthrough” on this blog ) Therefore I need to inspect the source…
Walkthrough: Create custom SharePoint 2010 list form for deployment in a Visual Studio 2010 project
(This is part 1 of 2. See link below.) Today I want to show you how to create a custom list form for deployment within a custom list template developed in Visual Studio 2010.…
Read and write User Profile Properties of SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service Application with PowerShell
I needed to change some properties of user profiles of my SharePoint 2010 farm. Of cource I wanted to do this with PowerShell! Before you can execute the following script, be sure…
Create tool for Visual Studio 2010 to extract the full qualified public assemby name with PowerShell
I created a simple tool extension for Visual Studio for extracting the full qualified name of an .NET assembly. Like this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en us/library/ee539398.aspx…
Walkthrough: Create Form with InfoPath and use it in a SharePoint 2010 Form Library
In this walkthrough I want to show you the steps for creating a InfoPath form and use it with InfoPath Forms Services of SharePoint 2010. 1\. First I downloaded a downloadable…
Error while enabling Session State Service on SharePoint 2010
There are some mysterios errors on my SharePoint farm. After reading tons of log files I found some hints to problems with the “Session State Service” of SharePoint 2010. I found…
How to create an instance of an generic class in PowerShell
Sometimes you may need to create instances of generic classes in PowerShell. Like this (in C ): There is a generic class used in the code above: System.Collection.Generic.List. If…
Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint–Error “The SharePoint service is running but the Forefront VSAPI Library is not registered”
I got this error in the config tool of Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint: “The SharePoint service is running but the Forefront VSAPI Library is not registered” Here is what…
How to embedd compressed scripts in other PowerShell scripts
For a current project I want to create a “master script” that contains another compressed PowerShell script. This compressed script contains some informations server names,…
“Passphrase” error while creating a new SharePoint 2010 farm with PowerShell cmdlet “New-SPConfigurationDatabase”
I tried to create a new SharePoint Server 2010 farm by using PowerShell cmdlet “New SPConfigurationDatabase” in one of the first steps. I got this error: New…
PowerShell: Cast Object Type
If you load an CSV file with import csv you will end up with an object of type System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject . It’s an array. In such a case I liked to use such an…
FileNotFoundException while developing an external SharePoint application
If you develop a SharePoint Application with Visual Studio 2010, e.g. a Console Aplication, you may get an FileNotFoundException. For example in this code (program.cs): I’ve maked…
"TaxonomyPicker" failed to load - Error in Event Viewer
After updating the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Server of our company to SharePoint Server 2010 I got this error in the Event Viewer: I could solve this error by re enabling the…