Today, I opened up my Central Admin on my test environment, only to be greeted by numerous web applications that…
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Quick tip: Troubleshoot “Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a server running the current version.”
If you’re trying to restore a SharePoint 2007 backup file of a site from one SharePoint installation to another, you…
How to: Deploy/Retract solutions to SharePoint through spsadm
So, everything is just fine when you use the DEPLOY command through Visual Studio to deploy your code to your…
Quick tip: Fix the missing Start Menu and taskbar icons
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where, although you can access your programs through the windows start menu,…
Basics: Enable/Disable features via the SP2010 Management Shell
There will be a time that because of your custom code or for any other reason, SharePoint will refuse to…
How to: Troubleshoot “Server Error in ‘/’ Application.” error after SP2010 SP1 update
In case you just installed SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1, or one of the new August/September 2011 updates is giving…
Quick tip: Add new property in SP2010 site collection property bag
The property bag of a site collection is a hashtable keeping key-value pairs. You can add as many as you…
How to: turn off SharePoint Custom Errors
When you deploy to SharePoint, you are likely to hit a page that informs you or an error pertaining to…
How to: Create “My Site” host
When you setup your SharePoint environment you will create an initial web application and site collection. Also, a “My Sites”…