This is a really tricky error I had when trying to deploy a Sand-boxed Solution using PowerShell on a new farm.  The error “Install-SPUserSolution : Sandboxed code execution request failed.”  happened with PowerShell, and with the GUI. I looked in the ULS log and found this: Sandboxed code execution request failed. – Inner Exception: System.InvalidOperationException    Server stack trace:...Read More

When you create a SharePoint site, it comes with the orange logo icon.   You can easily change it by using Powershell and an image that’s already on the site.  Here is how: Original Logo: The PowerShell Code:       $mainurl = “http://vlad.test.loc” $Web = Get-SpWeb $mainurl Write-Host -ForegroundColor White ” – Changing the...Read More

Here is how to Create a Record Center Sub Site , and add a Content Organizer rule to it. First, We need to Create the Subsite.  The Template “OFFILE#1” is the Template for Record Center.  You can find all Sharepoint Templates here. $mainURL = “http://vlad.test.loc” $RecordCenterURL = “http://vlad.test.loc/RecordCenter“ $web = New-SPWeb $RecordCenterURL -Template “OFFILE#1”   -AddToTopNav...Read More

I recently had to work on a project where I had to deploy a Site Collection, with the root web using a Custom Template.  It sounds easy to do with the GUI, “Select Template Later”, than you choose your template and that’s it.  If you want to script it, it’s trickier (until you do it the...Read More

I recently had to work on a project where I had to only let users create “New Site” with only a few numbers of Templates.  You can easily do it by the GUI, but how do we do it in PowerShell? Here is a picture of the “New Site” GUI before running the Powershell Script. Now here...Read More