SharePoint 2010 - Missing Dropdown menu for choosing the views

When two or more web parts are added to the standard view page then the drop down menu for choosing view gets disappeared.

Resolution that worked for me is to edit the view Page in the SharePoint Designer advanced Mode

Look for the line,

<SharePoint:ListTitleViewSelectorMenu AlignToParent="true" id="LTViewSelectorMenu" runat="server" />

and replace with,

<SPAN id=onetidPageTitleSeparator><SPAN><SPAN style="POSITION: relative; WIDTH: 11px; DISPLAY: inline-block; HEIGHT: 11px; OVERFLOW: hidden"><IMG style="POSITION: absolute; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; TOP: -585px !important; LEFT: 0px !important" alt=: src="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>

<SharePoint:ViewSelectorMenu ID="viewSelectorMenu1" runat="server" />

Hope it helps someone !!

Creating a new permission level in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell

When the out-of-the-box permission levels do not meet your needs then SharePoint 2010 allows you the capability to create new combinations of permissions that can cater your needs.

There are two ways of creating Permission level

 - SP2010 GUI

 - PowerShell.

Using SP2010 GUI it is very easy to create permission level, if this is only needed for one or two Site Collections. Imagine you have 100 + Site Collections then this solution will not work, Obvious choice is to use PowerShell.

Here is the PowerShell script to create custom permission level

When

$webapp = Get-SPWebApplication http://xyz.com

foreach ($SPSite in $webapp.sites)

{

$OpenWeb = $SpSite.OpenWeb()

$spWeb = Get-SPWeb $OpenWeb.url

$spRoleDefinition = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRoleDefinition

$spRoleDefinition.Name = "Site Owner"

$spRoleDefinition.Description = "Custom Permission for Site Owner"

$spRoleDefinition.BasePermissions = "

ManageLists,

CancelCheckout,

AddListItems,

EditListItems,

DeleteListItems,

ApproveItems,

ViewListItems,

OpenItems,

ViewVersions,

DeleteVersions,

CreateAlerts,

ViewFormPages,

ManageSubwebs, 

CreateGroups, 

ManagePermissions,

ManageWeb,

ViewUsageData,

AddAndCustomizePages,

BrowseDirectories,

EnumeratePermissions,

ManageAlerts,

Open,

ViewPages,

BrowseUserInfo,

UseClientIntegration,

EditMyUserInfo,

UseRemoteAPIs,

AddDelPrivateWebParts,

UpdatePersonalWebParts,

ManagePersonalViews"

$spweb.RoleDefinitions.Add($spRoleDefinition)

$SPSite.Dispose()

$OpenWeb.Dispose()

}

Happy scripting J

The secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate sent by the server was invalid and this item will not be crawled

On starting the full crawl of the default content source I received the  error. “The secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate sent by the server was invalid and this item will not be crawled”

It was because one of the site was SSL enabled. 

Solved it in the following manner,
1. Navigate to Central Administration.

2. Go to Application Management > Manage Service Applications and click on your Search Service.

3. In the left Navigation, click on “Farm Search Administration”

4. Under the Farm-Level Search Settings, click on Ignore SSL warnings status “NO” (by default is No). Select the Ignore SSL certificate name warnings check box if you want to trust that sites are legitimate even if their certificate names are not exact matches

  

5. Restart Incremental or full crawl as needed.

OneNote Sync Error Code: 0xE4020005

We were noticing OneNote Sync issues with SharePoint 2010 and below workaround worked for us,

1. Right-click section in question, Move or Copy...

2. Select another Notebook beside the one it resides in, Move.

3. Sync the changes.

4. Move the section back to the desired Notebook.

5. Sync the changes.

Step-By-Step Provisioning the Web Analytics Service Application on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1

Web Analytics Service is a service application in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 that you can use to perform site usage statistics and reporting within a browser.

Provisioning the Web Analytics Service Application
Navigate to CA àManage Service Application

Click new and chhose "Web Analytics Service Application"

Specify the name for the Service Application. Choose or create new application pool.

Specify the default database for the SharePoint farm and provide the Staging and Reporting database name. You can also specify the Retention period.

Once Service application is created you can start the Web Analytics Data Processing Service and Web Analytics Service.

Services running on each server in a three tier SharePoint 2010 Farm

Last week I installed and configured SharePoint 2010 SP1 and not sure to enable which service in the farm. There is nothing right or wrong with the service configuration setup, so I decided to blog the list of services that I enabled in my SharePoint farm environment.

Front End Servers,

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Incoming E-Mail

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application

Search Query and Site Settings Service

SharePoint Server Search Service

Application Servers,

Access Database Service

Application Registry Service

Business Data Connectivity Service

Central Administration

Claims to Windows Token Service

Document Conversions Launcher Service

Document Conversions Load Balancer Service

Excel Calculation Services

Lotus Notes Connector

Managed Metadata Web Service

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Subscription Settings Service

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service

PerformancePoint Service

PowerPoint Service

Search Query and Site Settings Service

Secure Store Service

SharePoint Foundation Search

SharePoint Server Search

User Profile Service

User Profile Synchronization Service

Visio Graphics Service

Web Analytics Data Processing Service

Web Analytics Web Service

Word Automation Services

Word Viewing Service

I am sure that others may have different ideas on the service configuration and I would welcome any inputs/thoughts through comments

There were problems searching audience, please contact the system administrator

In SharePoint 2010, when I tried to add/set Audience to the Navigation links, I kept getting the below error,

There were problems searching audience, please contact the system administrator

After spending some time in trouble shooting I noticed “User Profile Service Application Proxy” is not associated with the web application

Followed below steps to fix the issue,
Navigate to CA àManage Web Application
Select  “Web Application” that you are noticing the issues with the audiences.
In the Ribbon, Under Manage section click on “Service Connections”
Make sure that “User Profile Service Application Proxy” is checked by selecting custom.

After the above configuration step error disappeared and I was able to set the audiences to the Navigation links.