Adding an Email Link in SharePoint site page

There was a requirement raised by one of my user to add Email lnk to the SharePoint site page, I followed below steps to achieve this

 

Add Content Editor Web Part on the page and in source editor insert following code

<a href="mailto:abc@xyz.com">Email Us</a>

or 

open a site page in SharePoint Designer, select the location where you have to put the link and then insert above code

or 

if you want users to directly open email link on a page when they click on "Email Us / Contact Us" button then assign "OnClick" event to Contact Us button / tab with above code 

<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Email Us" onClick="parent.location='mailto:abc@xyz.com'">

hope this helps

The following users do not have email address specified

Problem Description:
Unable to set alert on a List for single or multiple users

Error Message:
The following users do not have email address specified: <Username>

Probable cause:
The user’s profiles are not updated in SharePoint even though everything is setup up correctly in Active Directory and in Exchange.

What are the accounts used in SharePoint Foundation 2010 for a least privileged configuration

In Many Organization while Implementing  SharePoint 2010 . the first question which may arise is What are the account we need to create and what are the permission levels it should have . I have tried my best to collate the things together and text it in my Blog .

Error 503 and unable to access the MOSS site

Problem Description:
Gets error 503 and unable to access the MOSS site anymore after installing a German language pack

Error Message:

503, service is unavailable

Farm Configuration:

Product / Version / Bit: SP2010/14.0.6335.0000/X64
Operating System / Service Pack/Bit: Win 2k8 R2 /SP2/X64
Farm Configuration: 3 WFE
Hardware (Physical/virtual): Hyper-V
Database Used: SQL server 2008 R2

Troubleshooting Done:

1.   Tried accessing all the sites, just to make sure that the problem is restricted to one site or across the whole farm

2.   Reviewed SharePoint logs

3.   Checked event logs

4.   Checked the connectivity between SQL and SharePoint

5.   Checked the application pools are running or not

Cause:

Found out that the applications pools are all stopped and that’s why the sites not running.

It looks like when the language pack is installed and then the issue started happening.

Resolution:

Started the application pool one by one and tried accessing the sites

All sites are accessible now without any issues…

Additional Notes:

Noticed that one of the content DB (WSS_content_ABC) shows that a few sites are not upgraded to SharePoint 2010.

Detached the content Database and attached it back to the same web application, just to make sure that the DB gets upgraded.

Product Applies To:

SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2007

Failed to open a connection to the Nintex Workflow configuration database

Here we go with another new issue and easy resolutions & workarounds

This time, the issue was with Nintex workflows at the time of activating a site collection feature. Let me describe the details in step by step so that it will be easy recognize as well as understand

Problem Description:

Problem activating Site Feature. While activating the ‘Nintex workflow 2010’ at the site collection level, we faced the following error message:

Error Message:

An unexpected error has occurred.

Troubleshoot issues with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.

Correlation ID: XXXXX

Troubleshooting Steps:

1)    Most imp regarding any exceptions: SharePoint logs (\14\logs)-specifically if we face “unexpected error”

2)    Windows event logs

3)    If we have a correlation id then it’s very easy to find out the exact error message

After reviewing the SP logs, this is what I found:

Exception was thrown while ensuring dependencies met for feature 'NintexWorkflow' (id: 0561d315-d5db-4736-929e-26da142812c5): Nintex.Workflow.NWFeatureActivatingException: Nintex.Workflow.NW2007DatabaseConnectionException: Failed to open a connection to the Nintex Workflow configuration database. ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot open database "NW2007WFDB" requested by the login. The login failed.  Login failed for user 'Contoso\Administrator'. 

What we need to target first in such conditions:

1.    What exactly the app pool identity is used by that web application? Does it have sufficient rights/not?

2.    The Nintex database has a role called WSS_Content_Application_Pools. This is the group that we need to add the app pool identity to

• SQL SERVER
• SharePoint_Config
• Security
• Users
• The account which is running the app pool of the web application
• Right Click-Properties
• General
• Database role membership

Resolution:

I have added this group named as WSS_Content_Application_Pools to the APP POOL identity and that it. It worked and issue has been successfully resolved

Disabled accounts in AD show up in SharePoint as active profiles

Problem Description:
If the proper filer is not applied in import connections then it can lead to hundreds of unwanted / disabled profile in ssp database. Sometimes due to IT audits we want to get rid of those profiles from SharePoint.

Product Applies:
1.    MOSS2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007)
2.    WSS3.0 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

Error Message: N/A

What exactly I did? How exactly I configured and came to know about the issue?
1.    In AD, I have created lots of user and disabled few of them.

2.    Configured SSP to import user profile by using the default filter
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user).

3.    That’s it-Problem started and found lots of profiles in view user profile.

How to Block SharePoint 2010 Installation ?

 

If you want to block users from installing SharePoint Server 2010 and related products, set the following registry key by using Group Policy in Active Directory directory services:

HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\ SharePoint\DWORD DisableInstall

To block installations, set DWORD DisableInstall=00000001.

When this registry key is set, users who try to install SharePoint Server 2010 receive the 

following error message:

SharePoint installation is blocked in your organization. Please contact your network administrator for more details.

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Find IT pro-focused how-to training and walkthrough videos with this interactive course about SharePoint 2013 including changes and new features for search, social, plus deployment and performance/scalability.


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Sharepoint 2010 development

If you want to start on SharePoint development and don’t know where to start form then you might want to try the SharePoint virtual labs

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc707678.aspx 

Topics Covered are:

SharePoint Server 2010 Virtual Labs

Introduction

Getting Started

Connectors & Using the Business Data Connnectivity (BDC) Service

Advanced Search Security

Configuring Search UIs

Content Processing and Property Extraction

Developing a Custom Connector

Fast Search Web Crawler

Federated Search

Linguistics

People Search Administration and Management

Relevancy and Ranking

Customizing MySites

Designing Lists and Schemas

Developing a BCS External Content Type with Visual Studio

Developing a Sandboxed Solution with Web Parts

Developing a Visual Web Part in Visual Studio

Developing Business Intelligence Applications

Enterprise Content Management

LINQ to SharePoint

User Interface Advancements

Visual Studio SharePoint Tools

Workflow

You get a downloadable manual and a 90-minute block of time for each module. You can sign up for additional 90-minute blocks at any time.

Generating a File Plan Report

You can also choose the option to Generate a File Plan Report from the Records Center Management

interface, as shown in Figure 8. This option allows you to create an Excel file that outlines your file plan as

currently configured in your Records Center. To create the file plan, you need to specify a location to store the

plans. Each new report will be stored in this location separately, in the folder specified.

After you generate the file plan report, you can obtain detailed information on many aspects of the configured

center file plan, such as

Site details such as Declaration settings and number of items on hold

Content types used in the policies

Policy names associated with the content types

Policy description details

Description

Versioning options

Date the report was generated

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2010.aspx