Moving a SharePoint 2010 Web using PowerShell
One of the tasks I have at my workplace is to “migrate” SharePoint sites from one parent site to another as projects are closed out. I wanted a solution to keep all of the business’s active project sites separate from their “archived” ones. The problem arose when that “archive” has to happen. You can’t just “move” a website in SP2010 (or at least, not in any way I’ve found or researched). You can, however, export and import the site, so…
Removing a user from a WSS 2.0 server (not just a site)
Yeah, I know, they’re still running WSS 2.0 at my employer. I’m just here to help, not judge. = ) So I get the request (and I got it before and forgot how I did it) from a site admin that they can’t add a user to their new website they created. It says they already exist when clearly they do not in the Manage Users screen. This is generally because the SID of the existing user account doesn’t match…
Restore detached content DB list data to another SP 2010 instance
Had quite a scare today, when one of our business users asked why he couldn’t get to his SharePoint 2010 library. It’s because we blew away that box due to configuration issues, and didn’t realize he was using it. Oops! Fortunately, our Sr. Network Admin (also the DBA) was smart enough to detach the DB (not drop it). I looked at the content in SSMS and sure enough, that was where his data was. Here’s what I did to restore…
Save Site as Template not available in SharePoint 2010
For some reason or another I’ve been able to creat a new site then save it as a template in both SP2010 and SP Designer 2010…except all of a sudden. Not sure why, but when I exported an existing site from another farm (identical SP2010 installation), then imported it into another SP2010 farm the option is gone. This also happened when I tried uninstalling the template from the Solution Gallery then redeploying it into the same farm. Fortunately, I happened…
Bad webpart causing SharePoint site to break
I ran across a discussioni online today (can’t recall where it was, unfortunately) that mentioned what to do when you put a SharePoint web part (2007 or higher) on a site and it breaks, or the web part itself is faulty. You’ll usually get an error page that you can’t get past. The solution is rather easy…append “?Contents=1” to the end of the site url. For example, if your site that you put the web part on is “http://server/path/site/subsite/SitePages/Home.aspx”, your…