Orphaned features in SharePoint Farm

While working for a client project and deploying existing SharePoint solution face issue about orphaned features which gives error a feature with feature id XXXXX already exist in farm.There are two solution either in feature set force install option or delete orphaned features using following powershell commands:Get-SPFeature | ? {$_.Scope -eq $null}$feature = Get-SPFeature | ? {$_.DisplayName -eq "FeatureToBeDeleted"} $feature.Dele...

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Solution: Datepicker not working within updatepanel

Problem Statement:Got chance to work on an existing project where in webform within update panel bootstrap datepicker control isn't working after callback/postback.Solution:Bind & Update datepicker controls at endRequest as follows: $(function () { bindDatePickers(); // bind date picker on first page load Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance().add_endRequest(bindDatePickers); // bind date picker on every UpdatePanel refresh }); function bindDatePickers() { $('#<%= txtStartDateFrom.ClientID%>').datepicker({ ...

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PowerShell: Migrate SharePoint list content from one farm to other farm using CSOM

Scenario:I met a scenario, where I need to migrate some list items (around 500+) from one farm (development) to another farm (Staging) and then to Production farm.Ideal scenario probably would be to create list schema with content. However, in my current scenario I used CSOM for copying list items. Also in my scenario I just can't replace current content of destinate list item. I must have to just copy/move list items which are required for newly developed components.Solution:First I save list as list template along with content...

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Export AD user to csv file

This blog post is kind of immediate requirement to import users from one dev AD to another testing AD. So it include of two parts. Part 1: To export users from Dev AD to csv file Part 2: To import users to testing AD from csv file In this post we will see how to export users from particular OU to a CSV file. Following is PowerShell script which I used: #OU Name/path whom users need to be exported $OUName = 'ou=OUName,dc=domain,dc=com' #Path where csv file will be created with OU users $ExportPath = 'c:\tmp\myOU_Users.csv' #command...

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