SharePoint Gen
The official blog of Chandrasekar, Microsoft SharePoint Consultant
SharePoint Online - Site Collection External Sharing Settings App
Summary SharePoint Online provides an ability to share contents to external users. This is a great...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/30/2016
SharePoint Online - Change Site Collection Ownership App
Summary The Change Site Collection Owner application is used for changing the Site Owner of a site...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/30/2016
SharePoint Online : Securing Add-in Principals
For the remote components of a provider-hosted SharePoint Add-in to interact with SharePoint using...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/27/2016
SPO : PowerShell to get Custom Actions in a Site Collection
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/27/2016
SPO : PowerShell Script to get report of all subsites for a given site collection
In SharePoint Online, most of the times, a Site Owner would like to get subsites report of their...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/23/2016
SharePoint Online - Setting custom home page in Site Collection and in Sub-Sites
In SharePoint Online, using PNP’s Remote Site Provisioning approach you can request and create...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/03/2016
SharePoint Online - Securing Add-in Principals
For the remote components of a provider-hosted SharePoint Add-in to interact with SharePoint using...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 03/03/2016
SharePoint Online–CSOM Change Access Requests Settings
The Access Request in the Site settings > Site permissions is a feature which allows people to...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 12/31/2015
SP 2013 – PowerShell to Modify Help Setting on Site Collection
Let’s say we want to enable/disable any of the help collection options available under Site...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 06/14/2014
SharePoint 2013 : Manage Other User Profiles
SharePoint gives an option in UPSA to manage the user profiles of other users (like editing basic or...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 12/10/2013
Document Follow option missing in Custom Document Library
In SharePoint 2013, you can Follow people, documents, sites, and tags. Out of the box when you...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 12/04/2013
SharePoint 2013 Web Analytics Report - Where is it?
I get lots of questions regarding Web Analytics and its report in SharePoint 2013. As...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/31/2013
Analytics Component disk location in SP2013
Analytics processing component in Search for SP2013 requires additional 300 GB disk space (apart...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/14/2013
Visual studio 2012 Workflows Document Set
In one of my blog, I talked about options to create document set through visual studio...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/14/2013
SP2013 : Search Components design
In one of my previous article, I talked about Search topology configuration in SP2013. In this...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/10/2013
SP2013: Creating Document Set using Workflow
In SharePoint 2010 workflows you can create a Document Set using CreateListItem action in SharePoint...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/10/2013
SP2013 : Multi-Farm environment and Social features - A word of caution
If you are designing Multi-farm environments with social feature capabilities, I strongly encourage...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 08/08/2013
LookUp Activities in Visual studio for SP 2013 Workflows
In Visual studio 2012, for SharePoint 2013 Workflows there are list lookup activities...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 07/09/2013
SP 2013 - Configure Usage and Health Data collection using PowerShell
The Usage and Health Data collection can be configured using PowerShell using Set-SPUsageService and...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 04/14/2013
Stretched Farm support in SP 2013
Initially when SharePoint 2013 was released the stretched farms were unsupported. After continuous...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 04/14/2013
SP 2013 Search Box WebPart configuration using PowerShell
Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" $spsite = Get-SPSite...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 04/14/2013
Upgrading SPD 2010 Workflows to SPD 2013 Workflows
The SharePoint 2010 Workflow platform has been carried forward to SharePoint Server 2013. SharePoint...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 04/13/2013
SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflow Deployment Issue
In SharePoint Designer 2013 when you create and deploy a workflow to a SharePoint site, you might...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 04/13/2013
SharePoint 2013 - New Baseline to apply fixes
A new baseline has been established for future SharePoint 2013 fixes. This means that you will have...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 04/07/2013
SP15 Organization Chart in MySites
The Web Part, “Org Chart”, that was visible under the About Me section of MySites in previous...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 04/01/2013
SP15 Web configuration and IIS 7.5 PowerShell
SharePoint 2013 runs on ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5. The Web.Config has been substantially...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 03/02/2013
SP15 Workflow - New error logging feature
SharePoint15 workflows are now powered by Windows Workflow Foundation 4, which is...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 03/01/2013
Using Web Services in InfoPath Forms in SP15
If you were using InfoPath forms to connect to a data source like web service in SP2010 and it was...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 02/25/2013
Removing LinksStore Database in SP2013
When you create a new Search Service Application in SP2013, four databases are created - Search...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 02/23/2013
SharePoint 2013 - Configuring Search Service Application and Topology using PowerShell
The core search architecture of SharePoint 2013 has a more complex and flexible topology that can be...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 02/18/2013
Manage Web Part Permissions using PowerShell
PowerShell script to manage permissions of web parts in Web Part gallery. # Get Web Object...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 04/06/2012
List of securable objects (sites and lists) that have unique permission
In SharePoint, a securable object is a site, list, library, folder, document, or item for which...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 03/31/2012
Analyze Test-SPContentDatabase Output
Windows PowerShell Test-SPContentDatabase cmdlet is used to test a content database against a Web...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 03/11/2012
Managing User Profile Service Application permissions using PowerShell
When User Profile Service application is configured in SP 2010, by default NT...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 01/22/2012
Setting Managed Metadata Service Connection Properties using PowerShell
In SharePoint 2010 service applications, the managed metadata service connection properties...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 01/22/2012
PowerShell script to create a new User Profile Property
#Load SharePoint User Profile assemblies...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 09/17/2011
Configuring Farm Account for PerformancePoint Service Application
It’s been quite sometime since I’ve written blog articles. This post talks about setting farm...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 09/07/2011
SharePoint 2007: GetWebCollection (Webs.asmx) does not return webs based on a user permission
Supposedly in Webs.asmx web service we pass on the user credentials and then call GetWebCollection...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 10/15/2010
Visual Studio 2010 F5 solution deployment
Create a content type project in Visual studio 2010 and then create some custom content types with...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 09/06/2010
Transforming BDC Models to BCS in SharePoint 2010
Upgrading BDC to BCS: Due to certain changes in SharePoint Server 2010 Business Connectivity...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 09/06/2010
Using Word Automation Services in a Workflow custom activity for SP Designer Workflows
It has been quite sometime since I wrote any blog article. What a way to start SharePoint 2010...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 09/03/2010
CAML Query to change list fields schema through Web service
The UpdateList method of lists web service takes few parameters, out of which newFields,...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 05/26/2010
Changing navigation drop down menus speed in SharePoint
In a SharePoint site, when we take the mouse pointer on the top link bar we get the drop down menu...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 03/12/2010
Sending customized email from SharePoint Workflow
I recently got a requirement from a customer asking for a solution that will send a customized email...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 03/09/2010
Understanding UpdateAllTasks activity in SharePoint Workflow
I recently got a case from a customer complaining that the UpdateAllTasks activity fails to change...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 02/11/2010
Customize “Sign in as Different User” for an expired Active Directory password
Here is the scenario. Supposedly a password in AD is expired and we try to log in into the...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 12/11/2009
SharePoint SendEmail Activity “Go to My Tasks”
In Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.SendEMail Acitivity, there is a property called...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 12/04/2009
Remove duplicate Workflows displayed on the existing sites
Let us consider the following scenario. You have a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site that...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 10/08/2009
Add custom columns in document content type by default when MySite is created and also for Existing MySite
I recently got a requirement asking how can we create Mysite for new users(also existing users) so...
Author: ChandrasekarN Date: 09/18/2009