There are few ways to get FARM server where SharePoint Central Administration site is hosted. Using PowerShell cmdLets:- 1- Get-spwebapplication -includecentraladministration | where {$_.DisplayName -match “SharePoint Central Administration*”} | select DisplayName,Url The above cmdLet is good while you are trying to retrieve url of the CA either it is hosted on same machine or on different one (during n-tier farm architecture) But suppose, I

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Get SharePoint Central Administration site url

I already have wrote about the design of the Document Management using SharePoint in my previous post. You can see the links below. Now I will go through the steps of how to create Document Center and Record Center and how they will be connected. Design: http://mysplist.blogspot.com/2014/03/sharepoint-2013-document-management.html Implementation: Go to SharePoint Central Administration and create a separate Web Application and

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SharePoint 2013 – Document Management – II

In this post I will explain how a Document Management System using SharePoint 2013 can be designed for an Enterprise. I had a requirement at my work for designing a Document Management using SharePoint 2013 and here is my proposed design. Ref: http://mysplist.blogspot.com/2014/03/sharepoint-2013-document-management.html Background: Document Center Document Center site is designed to managed an enterprise’s live

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SharePoint 2013 – Document Management

Hi fellow SharePointers, In my time being a SharePoint administrator, I have wondered if it was possible to create personal sites for users on the fly using PowerShell. This could be for any reason. Here is the TechNet gallery link: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Create-personal-for-4a70e4ad If you have any questions, or improvement recommendations, please let me know!

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Create a personal site for a specific user using PowerShell

Use this script to map AD attribute to SharePoint user profile property for specific synchronization connection in UPA (User Profile Application). This is useful to remap ‘proxyAdresses’ attribute for WorkEmail property if you changed to ‘mail’ and trying to change it back or other scenario. If mapping already exists it will be remapped to new

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Change or add UPA user property mapping for specific synchronization connection via PowerShell

Send mail using PowerShell cmdLet. I generally use these cmdLet to verify outgoing email settings.  Using smtp address (Hardcoding the SMTP address)      function send-notification($subject, $detail) {     $message = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage     $message.Subject = $subject     $message.Body = $detail     $message.To.Add(“recipient1@domain.com”)     $message.To.Add(“recipient2@domain.com”)     $message.Cc.Add(“cc1@domain.com”)     $message.Bcc.Add(“bcc1@domain.com”)     $message.From =

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How to send an email using PowerShell (SMTPClient and MailMessage)