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Create SharePoint Service accounts through PowerShell script.

You need to domain admin or have permissions to create user in Active Directory.  Need to log in in...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 08/03/2017

Restrict people picker to get users from a particular domain.

  We had a request from client to allow to pick up users in a people picker on a site from...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 03/05/2016

No trusted providers were found while creating new User Profile Sync Connection

  In my last post Sync FBA user profiles I discussed how to synchronize Form based...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 07/22/2015

SharePoint database machine running out of disk space.

This is a common problem.  The first thing you might want to inspect is the database size....

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 05/28/2015

Cannot add the specified assembly to the global assembly cache: Microsoft.Practices.SharePoint.Common.dll.

  Had this issue for a while.   Some said restart IIS, Powershell etc I closed Visual...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 05/26/2015

Access denied with SPSecurity.RunWithElevated privileges

A fellow colleague was trying to do something in web part that required more privileges So as all of...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 05/12/2015

Confirm delete with Ajax

  Normally we would like to provide a confirmation dialog to the user before deleting something...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 05/07/2015

Sync LDAP users with SharePoint site for Forms Authentication

  In my earlier post Getting Updates to User profile in SharePoint, I wrote about AD updates...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 04/10/2015

Updates in AD not reflecting in SharePoint

  Whenever user properties are updated in Active Directory, following needs to be done to have...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 04/02/2015

Cannot recognize the XML namespace of this Web Part

In my earlier post Provisioning webparts through feature, we saw how can custom or out of the box...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 02/23/2015

Provisioning page with configured web part from Visual Studio

It is very convenient and very elegant solution to create and deploy page using wsp.  Manual...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 02/23/2015

Where is Workflow History List

  Well the Workflow History list is hidden. Where to find: But many times we want to go there...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 01/23/2015

Visual studio stuck "Waiting for parse to complete" - Resolved

  I tried all sorts of things including machine restart but did not work. I realized the issues...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 11/26/2014

The type or namespace name 'SharePoint' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly reference?) inspite of correct references set.

Are you facing this? and the reference is already referred properly still getting this? The issue...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 10/27/2014

Exception Trying to use an SPWeb object that has been closed or disposed and is no longer valid.

  Have seen many developers struggling with this exception and its a common mistake that people...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 10/03/2014

Enable Debugging and set custom errors off in SharePoint

Posting this snippet so that I can always find it when I need it. To debug a SharePoint solution you...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 09/02/2014

Localization / Using Resources in SharePoint

  Working with people who are new to SharePoint can be very enriching as we come across lot of...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 08/29/2014

Remote Event Receivers in SharePoint 2013

  A new concept of remote event receivers have been introduced in SharePoint 2013.  These...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 06/11/2014

Request Management in SP2013

  Why Request Management SharePoint 2010 had request throttling.  That is let us say been...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 06/11/2014

Caml Queries to Remember

  Everytime I start writing CAML I fall back to U2U. Wanted to keep few queries handy so here...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 06/09/2014

Setting up Workflow in SharePoint 2013

https://www.codeproject.com  Workflow in SharePoint 2013 lies outside of SharePoint. ...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 04/29/2014

Extend web application, AAM and public and internal URLs

  Extending web application When a web application gets extended, new SharePoint site is not...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 04/27/2014

Host named site collections in SharePoint 2013

What are HNSC Traditional site collections that we create in SharePoint are Path based site...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 04/27/2014

Page cannot be displayed error while creating Web application

While creating a new web application, a 404 'Page not found' error is displayed and the web...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 06/19/2013

Strategy Pattern

Some time back I gave a session on Strategy pattern. There were variety of feedback saying creative,...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 06/03/2011

Ajax Library – Event Handling

System.ComponentModel.EventHandlerList - to add custom events to an object To add custom events to...

Author: Deepa Lakhani Date: 06/03/2011