To Remove a bad Web Part – SharePoint

When we develop a web part, we definitely face errors, but this error may be prevent you from loading the page and all you can see is an error! Helpful I know!

Anyway the problem is want to remove the web part from the page, but we can’t even edit the page at all.

Solution:

Add to the URL this QueryString ?Contents=1

If this is your URL http://servername/pages/home.aspx then add to it the QueryString to be http://servername/pages/home.aspx?contents=1

You will then see the page as below: now you can close or delete the bad web part.

I haven’t specified the SharePoint version is it works from SharePoint 2007 .. 2010 & 2013 but not sure about more previous versions but who still uses it anyway !

Hope that helps.

SharePoint 2013 Default Team Site Elements

SharePoint 2013 Default Team Site Elements by Veronique Palmer

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NOW SP 2 Supports SharePoint 2010 to run on Windows 2012

Actually I knew about Service Pack by luck while talking to a coworker, we just discovered it in the morning J

And while reading this article: http://redmondmag.com/articles/2013/07/23/office-2010-sp2.aspx

Really MS finally Service Pack 2 is here that supports to run SharePoint 2010 on Windows 2012.. OMG finally.. Wow I had an article on blog on 25 September 2012 http://maiomardesouki.com/2012/09/25/windows-server-2012-does-not-support-sharepoint-2010-for-now/ when I was trying to install SharePoint 2010 on Win 2012.

Let me get this straight when I say “Support” means there is a workaround which I posted links for other bloggers who made that workaround to run SP 2010 on Win 2012 but Remember
was not supported so definitely there is no way you can do that workaround in a production environment. That’s the point.

Download SharePoint 2010 SP 2 from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39672 which was published on 21 July 2013.

Unfortunately MS haven’t yet did ISO for SharePoint 2010 with SP2 so we need to do the slipstream, the same thing we did for SP1, example here: http://www.mice-ts.com/slipstreaming-the-sharepoint-2010-rtm-iso-with-service-pack-1/

Enjoy SharePointing & SlipStreaming!

SharePoint Newsfeed App for iPhone & iPad

I just saw this now and I was really excited, SharePoint to going this time sooo much socialing right.. 🙂 sweet times.

Here is the link: https://itunes.apple.com/ae/app/sharepoint-newsfeed/id595847617?mt=8 

Description
SharePoint Newsfeed lets you stay connected to your organization’s social pulse while on the go. You can easily navigate your feeds and interact with the conversations from SharePoint sites you are following. Use this app to:

• Keep up with your colleagues’ latest posts and comments

• Create new posts to share updates or ask questions

• @mention a colleague or include #hashtag in your posts

• Upload pictures

• Discover the profile of anyone from your feed

• Access followed documents.

Note: The SharePoint Newsfeed app works with SharePoint 2013 and the new SharePoint Online. Previous versions of SharePoint are not supported.

When you are signing in, you will need your username, password and the proper SharePoint personal site URL. For example:

• Sample SharePoint Online URL (https://contoso-my.sharepoint.com)

• Sample SharePoint On-Premises URL (http://contoso/my)

If you are having issues signing in, please contact your company’s SharePoint administrator to inquire about the proper URL and credentials.

Below how it looks like in iPhone:

 

and this is for the iPad:

EnjoOOOOoooooy SharePointing!

Automate Variations in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell & C#

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C-sharp, Microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, Multilingual, Multilingual sites, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2013, Variations, Windows PowerShell

“Thanks to Waldek Mastykarz for his post, he posted about it but for SP 2010 and only in C#” but then I was able to convert it to Powershell, also thanks to “Eric Soo” for his reply but I was done already but thank you both.”

Let’s Start.. Automating variations settings and configuration so whenever a deployment is needed, you will be ready with your PowerShell scripts.

Manual deployment is time consuming as it is repetitive task, in this post I will let you know how to automate one of those many tasks when it comes to deployment.

SharePoint Variations has a UI which I will show you its steps now;

The steps in this post is for automation of variation in UI, in C# & finally in PowerShell.

1. Go to “Site Actions” à“Site settings”;
   
2. Under “Site collection administration”, click “Variation Settings”,
   

   

3. The code below is in C# for the page above to change or update the “Variation Settings”;
   

   
   
   

4. The same code but this time in PowerShell,
   

   
   

5. Now we need to create labels; go back to “Site Settings”, under “Site Collection Administration” click “Variation Settings”;
   

   

6. I have 2 labels, currently if this is your first time, it will be empty, click now “New Label” (as if you are telling SharePoint List to create new item) since we will do this in the code 😉
   

   
   

7. Now same code but PowerShell for creating variation labels;
   

   
   

   
   

8. Now to create hierarchies; you should see the labels added as below, click above them “Create Hierarchies”, before creating hierarchies, the values for the labels are “No”,
   

   

9. After creating hierarchies, the values should be yes under “Hierarchy is Created”,
   
10. To create Hierarchies in C#,
    

    
    

11. Now let’s create hierarchies in PowerShell,
    

    
    

     

    Thank you and please write your comments or in case you have any questions.