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A Worldmap list visualization for SharePoint (Online)

I really like the way you can use SharePoint's Client Side Rendering to alter the way list data is viewed. Earlier posts featured a notice board and jQuery DataTables, but this time I'd like to pre...

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Pretty cool.

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Nice.

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Very useful.

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This article contains links that enable you to browse topics about the settings in the SharePoint admin. The SharePoint admin center that is part of SharePoint Online in Office 365 Enterprise and Midsize plans.

Nice all-in-one site with useful links on many SharePoint Online topics.

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Brief overview of what is available in SharePoint Online Central Administration site.

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Blog featuring useful tips for SharePoint 2013, Office 365, SharePoint Online, ASP.NET, and Visual Studio 2013.

I found this post useful.

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SharePoint 2016 deprecated features... - TechNet Articles - United States (English) - TechNet Wiki

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This setup guide walks you through the steps to install and configure a SharePoint 2013 farm and an Office Web Apps 2013 farm. I have included a range of topics from preparing for the farm deployme...

While searching for something else, I found this nice installation guide. Having a checklist is always helpful.

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BRK2188 In this session, we have a lot of new information for admins, sharing what's new and coming in the next on-premises version of SharePoint - SharePoint Server 2016 - with insights on hybrid, too. More

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Managing Search Relevance in SharePoint 2013 and O365 (Channel 9)

Useful video.

SPC382 Improve the value of search results by managing Relevance. SharePoint 2013 and O365 provide a comprehensive set of tools to manage Search Relevance. SharePoint 2013 and O365 combine and improve upon t

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How to source your PowerShell Profile

So, you have edited your PowerShell profile, saved the changes, but you cannot use the new alias you just created.  How do you save the changes without re-launching PowerShell?  Source your profile. 

. $profile

There you go. 

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Running stsadm commands from a PowerShell script

I use PowerShell pretty heavily for my administrator tasks.  However, there is one stsadm command that does not have a PowerShell equivalent - at least to my satisfaction.  Stsadm -enumsites.  This command allows you to pipe out a list of site collections in your farm to an XML file.  From there, I open in Excel and I have a nice table with all my site collections - very useful.  

Well, what if you want to run this stsadm command via a PowerShell script.  No problem.  

First edit your profile to create an alias for stsadm, so PowerShell knows where to find stsadm.exe:

psedit $profile (PowerShell ISE)

notepad $profile (PowerShell)

Set-Alias -Name stsadm -Value $env:CommonProgramFiles”\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN\STSADM.EXE”

Save and source your profile and now you can run stsadm commands from PowerShell.

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Viewing Eventvwr items with PowerShell

I wanted to capture items from Eventvwr with the level Warning, Error, and Critical.  No problem.  Get-EventLog can return these items.  Wait! Not all of them.  Get-EventLog does not return the Critical items.  Well, that's the most important one!  It turns out Get-WinEvent will give you what you need, including items flagged Critical.  Export to CSV, open in Excel, create a pivot table and you are all set.  Beautiful.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849682(v=wps.620).aspx

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Sometimes only VIM will do.  Installing on Windows is easy.  Here is a useful tutorial. 

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Which site template does this site use?

This is the easiest way I've found.  View the HTML source of the page and search for SiteTemplateID.  Very easy. 

Source: SharePoint Tips by Nick Hobbs

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Merge-SPLogFile Cmdlet in SharePoint

This is one of those cmdlets that makes your life a lot easier.  Rather than logging in on each server to search for a correlation ID, just use this cmdlet.  It searches the logs on each server and returns those items relevant to the parameter you used.  In the case below, the correlation ID. Merge-SpLogFile -StartTime "10/22/2014 9:49 AM" -EndTime "10/22/2014 9:57 AM" -Path D:\UPA.log -Correlation ID

Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607721(v=office.15).aspx