Today i will talk about Publishing Features!!! During this afternoon I was trying to activate Publishing Features but i wasn’t having success because Page Library not was created on activation! So there are more than two Publishing Feature that we need have in consideration, it’s not enough Activate Publishing Infrastructure Feature and Publishing Feature. If you want activate all Publishing Features you can do it pragmatically or using Powershell script:

SharePoint Server – Powershell:

 
Disable-SPFeature –identity 'publishingSite' -URL http://server/ -force
Disable-SPFeature –identity 'PublishingResources' -URL http://server/-force
Disable-SPFeature –identity 'Publishing' -URL http://server/ -force
Disable-SPFeature –identity 'PublishingLayouts' -URL http://server/ -force
Disable-SPFeature –identity 'publishingweb' -URL http://server/ -force

Enable-SPFeature –identity 'publishingSite' -URL http://server/ -force
Enable-SPFeature –identity 'PublishingResources' -URL http://server/ -force
Enable-SPFeature –identity 'Publishing' -URL http://server/ -force
Enable-SPFeature –identity 'PublishingLayouts' -URL http://server/ -force
Enable-SPFeature –identity 'publishingweb' -URL http://server/ -force

SharePoint Online – Powershell:

 
Disable-SPOFeature –Identity "F6924D36-2FA8-4f0b-B16D-06B7250180FA" -Scope Site
Disable-SPOFeature –Identity "AEBC918D-B20F-4a11-A1DB-9ED84D79C87E" -Scope Site
Disable-SPOFeature –Identity "22A9EF51-737B-4ff2-9346-694633FE4416" -Scope Web
Disable-SPOFeature –Identity "D3F51BE2-38A8-4e44-BA84-940D35BE1566" -Scope Site
Disable-SPOFeature –Identity "94C94CA6-B32F-4da9-A9E3-1F3D343D7ECB" -Scope Web

Enable-SPOFeature –Identity "F6924D36-2FA8-4f0b-B16D-06B7250180FA" -Scope Site
Enable-SPOFeature –Identity "AEBC918D-B20F-4a11-A1DB-9ED84D79C87E" -Scope Site
Enable-SPOFeature –Identity "22A9EF51-737B-4ff2-9346-694633FE4416" -Scope Web
Enable-SPOFeature –Identity "D3F51BE2-38A8-4e44-BA84-940D35BE1566" -Scope Site
Enable-SPOFeature –Identity "94C94CA6-B32F-4da9-A9E3-1F3D343D7ECB" -Scope Web

Also that you can activate Programmatically:

 

        private void ActivatePublishingFeatures(SPWeb web, SPSite site)
        {
            // Publishing Site
            string sharePointPublishingSite = "f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa";
            Guid sharePointPublishingSiteGuid = new Guid(sharePointPublishingSite);

            if (site.Features[sharePointPublishingSiteGuid] == null)
            {
                site.Features.Add(sharePointPublishingSiteGuid, true);
            }

            // Publishing Resources
            string sharePointPublishingResources = "aebc918d-b20f-4a11-a1db-9ed84d79c87e";
            Guid sharePointPublishingResourcesGuid = new Guid(sharePointPublishingResources);

            if (site.Features[sharePointPublishingResourcesGuid] == null)
            {
                site.Features.Add(sharePointPublishingResourcesGuid, true);
            }

            // Publishing
            string sharePointPublishing = "22a9ef51-737b-4ff2-9346-694633fe4416";
            Guid sharePointPublishingGuid = new Guid(sharePointPublishing);

            if (web.Features[sharePointPublishingGuid] == null)
            {
                web.Features.Add(sharePointPublishingGuid, true);
            }

            // Publishing Layouts
            string sharePointPublishingLayouts = "d3f51be2-38a8-4e44-ba84-940d35be1566";
            Guid sharePointPublishingLayoutsGuid = new Guid(sharePointPublishingLayouts);

            if (site.Features[sharePointPublishingLayoutsGuid] == null)
            {
                site.Features.Add(sharePointPublishingLayoutsGuid, true);
            }

            // Publishing Web
            string sharePointServerPublishingWeb = "94c94ca6-b32f-4da9-a9e3-1f3d343d7ecb";
            Guid sharePointServerPublishingWebGuid = new Guid(sharePointServerPublishingWeb);

            if (web.Features[sharePointServerPublishingWebGuid] == null)
            {
                web.Features.Add(sharePointServerPublishingWebGuid, true);
            }
        }

Thanks

Fábio Carvalho
SharePoint Consultant
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Today i will talk about List and Library Alerts and how can you get all Active alerts for a specific list using powershell script and how can you disable all alerts.

This is very useful script, when you need move a large list of items on a maintenance routine and you don’t want send a large number of emails/ notifications for users who subscribe alerts, this script help you disable and enable them.

This first PowerShell Script get all SharePoint list alerts with state active.

 

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell –ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

#Variables
$WebURL = "http://YourWebUrl"
$ListName="YourListName"

#Function to Get All Active Alerts on a Given List
Function Get-ListAlerts($WebURL, $ListName)
{
  #Get the Web and List objects
  $Web = Get-SPWeb $WebURL
  $List = $web.Lists.TryGetList($ListName)

  #Get All Alerts created in the list - Which are Active
  $ListAlerts = $Web.Alerts | Where-Object {($_.List.Title -eq $List.Title) -and ($_.Status -eq "ON")}

  foreach($Alert in $ListAlerts)
  {
          write-host "Alert' - $($Alert.Title)' Created for User - '$($Alert.User.Name)'"
  }

 #Dispose web object
 $Web.Dispose()
}

#Call the function Appropriately to Disable or Enable Alerts 
Disable-ListAlerts $WebURL $ListName

 

If you want disable all alerts on this specific list you just need run the following script.

 

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell –ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

#Variables
$WebURL = "http://YourWebUrl"
$ListName="YourListName"

#Function to Disable All Active Alerts on a Given List
Function Disable-ListAlerts($WebURL, $ListName)
{
  #Get the Web and List objects
  $Web = Get-SPWeb $WebURL
  $List = $web.Lists.TryGetList($ListName)

  #Get All Alerts created in the list - Which are Active
  $ListAlerts = $Web.Alerts | Where-Object {($_.List.Title -eq $List.Title) -and ($_.Status -eq "ON")}

  Write-host "Total Number of Active Alerts Found in the list: $($ListAlerts.Count)" 
 
  #Iterate through each alert and turn it OFF
  foreach($Alert in $ListAlerts)
  {
     $Alert.Status="OFF"
     $Alert.Update()
     write-host "Disabled the Alert' $($Alert.Title)' Created for User '$($Alert.User.Name)'"
  }
 
 #Dispose web object
 $Web.Dispose()
}

#Call the function Appropriately to Disable or Enable Alerts 
Disable-ListAlerts $WebURL $ListName

Thanks

Fábio Carvalho
SharePoint Consultant
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Today i will talk about Storage Metrics in your SharePoint Site Collection!!!

Everyone knows what is the main feature on SharePoint that you could interact with and Structure of SharePoint Site Collections! right!? Site Content and Struct (/_layouts/sitemanager.aspx)!!!

Site Content and Structure page, give you a great overview about all your Site Collection structure. This feature, available since Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, give the capability to navigate dynamically on your site collection hierarchy, it is familiar to Windows Explorer in fact. You can see the site collection hierarchy in the navigation pane as a tree view on the left of the Site Content and Structure page.

But, if you need know more details about storage, probably don’t help you as you expect, so in this case you case access to Storage Metrics (/_layouts/storman.aspx).

Storage Metrics underneath Site Collection Administration, access to your all sub-sites and libraries in SharePoint Online ( also available for SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016) and give you the information about how much storage they are consuming.

It is great!!! Because Storage Metrics allows you to drill down to each site, library and even folder to show a very granular report on your storage consumption, this is very important if you need migrate a large lists or even you are planning an migration between SharePoint Versions without any 3rd Party tool.

Take a Look:

Thanks

Fábio Carvalho
SharePoint Consultant
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Today i will show you how can you create SharePoint 2016 Service Accounts using PowerShell script following the Best Practices.

The script not only create all the accounts but also create the respectives OU (Organizational Unit):

• SharePoint Accounts
• SQL Accounts

Service Accounts:

Script:

 

$mydom = (get-addomain).distinguishedname 
$password = "pass@word1" | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force 

$ouNameSP = "SharePoint Accounts"
$oudnSP = "OU=$ounameSP,$mydom" 

$ouNameSQL = "SQL Accounts" 
$oudnSQL = "OU=$ounameSQL,$mydom" 

#----------------------------> Organizational Unit <---------------------------- 

New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Name $OUNameSP -Path $mydom 
Write-Host "OU $OUNameSP Created" -foregroundcolor green 

New-ADOrganizationalUnit -Name $OUNameSQL -Path $mydom 
Write-Host "OU $OUNameSQL Created" -foregroundcolor green 

#-----------------------------> SharePoint 2016 <-------------------------------

$usersArraySP = @("SP_Farm","SP_Admin","SP_Pool","SP_Services","SP_Crawl","SP_Search",
                  "SP_UserProfiles","SP_PortalSuperReader","SP_CacheSuperUser","SP_VisioUser",
                  "SP_PerfPointUser","WF_Service","SP_MySitePool","SP_PortalSuperUser")

foreach ($usp in $usersArraySP) {
        New-ADUser -Name $usp -DisplayName $usp -SamAccountName $usp -AccountPassword $password 
        -ChangePasswordAtLogon $false -PassThru -PasswordNeverExpires $true -Path $oudnSP 
        Write-Host "$usp Created" -foregroundcolor green
 }

#----------------------------------> SQL <--------------------------------------
$usersArraySQL = @("SQL_Admin","SQL_Service")

foreach ($usql in $usersArraySQL) {
       New-ADUser -Name $usql -DisplayName $usql -SamAccountName $usql -AccountPassword $password 
       -ChangePasswordAtLogon $false -PassThru -PasswordNeverExpires $true -Path $oudnSQL
       Write-Host "$usql Created" -foregroundcolor green
 }

Thanks

Fábio Carvalho
SharePoint Consultant
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Today i will post a script very helpful when you are on Migration steps and you need export all wsp solutions.

 

$dirName = "C:\WSP"
if (!(Test-Path -path $dirName))
{
New-Item $dirName -type directory
}
Write-Host Exporting solutions to $dirName
foreach ($solution in Get-SPSolution)
{
    $id = $Solution.SolutionID
    $title = $Solution.Name
    $filename = $Solution.SolutionFile.Name
    Write-Host "Exporting ‘$title’ to …\$filename" -nonewline
    try {
        $solution.SolutionFile.SaveAs("$dirName\$filename")
        Write-Host " – done" -foreground green
    }
    catch
    {
        Write-Host " – error : $_" -foreground red
    }
}

Thanks

Fábio Carvalho
SharePoint Consultant
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Today i will talk about SharePoint Migrations, a complex process that requires an extra efforts depending the version of SharePoint.

Why should I upgrade or migrate to SharePoint 2016?!

1.SharePoint Farm of company is old! If it’s SP2003, SP2007 or SP2010, Microsoft do not give more support and updates for that versions, so you can’t expect more features our updates for your infrastructure.

SharePoint Product Lifecycle

2.SharePoint 2016, it’s more stable and fast than the other version even is a version more close to the cloud, all the innovation and experience hosting SharePoint Online brought that knowledge and innovation to SharePoint 2016, also that, new version use MinRoles a significant improvement in terms of infrastructure.

3.FIM is no more a component of SharePoint, it was replaced by Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM).

4.Data Loss Prevention is now part of SharePoint.  You can now identify, monitor for, and protect sensitive data across SharePoint 2016, SharePoint Online, and One Drive for Business using SharePoint 2016.

5.Hybrid Solutions between SharePoint 2016 and Office 365,  now you can easily integrate with Office 365 using SharePoint 2016. Taking the advantage of Cloud Hybrid Search, Delve, Hybrid Sites, Groups, Profile Redirection and more running SharePoint in hybrid mode.

6.Durable Links,move files wherever you like and your link remains valid. It may seem like a small thing but to end users this is a big deal.

7.Cloud Hybrid Search in the cloud you can display all of your results from O365 and on-prem will be listed happily together, by relevancy, and it’s all encrypted by the crawler.

There are many other new features offered by SharePoint 2016 you can read more about in this link.

Which approach should I take, to upgrade or migrate?!

What questions should I ask before upgrading or migrating?

It’s important understand what is the main processes and data that you what migrate for your new version of SharePoint, this will be essential to define the process and success of the operation. Ask questions about the current solution and success criteria you can define the scope of the migration or upgrade, this type of process not is fast but is really importance is be precision.

Are you now ready to migrate or upgrade?

The  success of  migration or upgrade is planning, then some more planning, and organizational buy in. Moving to SharePoint 2016 will deliver better security, collaboration, content management, mobility, compliance and cloud connectivity features. But the migration or upgrade warrants a much more care and attention to detail in planning, you need to lay out every step needed to get there and  engage all the stakeholders in your organization in all aspects of the selected process.

New and improved features in SharePoint Server 2016

Create the SharePoint Server 2016 farm for a database attach upgrade

Thanks

Fábio Carvalho
SharePoint Consultant
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