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PowerShell script to update all Site Collection Owners

By On February 28, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Administration

Requirement

Update the site collection owners for all sites in your SharePoint farm. You normally wouldn’t do this too often, but this is helpful when you are doing things like migrations from old SharePoint installations.

Having a valid account with a working e-mail address is important especially when you use site collection quotas and warning [...]

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SharePoint Keeps Prompting for Credentials

By On February 8, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Administration

Problem

SharePoint keeps prompting you for credentials in the following scenarios:

You get prompted for credentials when you access the site in the browser. You get prompted for credentials when you open a document from SharePoint. You get prompted for credentials after you open a document from SharePoint and try to “Save As”.

Cause

The [...]

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The security validation for this page is invalid

By On August 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Administration

Problem:

After applying SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 and June 2011 Update, you start getting an exception “The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again.” in your InfoPath forms when you try to do certain actions like adding an attachment to [...]

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Powershell script to display unique permissions for all subsites and lists

By On August 11, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Administration

Requirement

Display security permissions for site collection, subsites, and lists/libraries in each site.

Solution

This can be achieved by a simple powershell script. To use it, you must modify the $site variable to point to your site collection.

Syntax: <script name>.ps1 | out-file c:\permissions.txt

#Add SharePoint PowerShell SnapIn if not already added

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