New CAML Designer is released !

All of us know U2U CAML Builder and all of us encountered on bugs of it.

So, Karine Bosch noticed on release of new version of CAML Designer.

I hope it will help us - SharePoint Developers

Enable/Disable feature - SharePoint 2010 PowerShell

Some times you need just enable /disable feature .
So for me the good way is doing by PowerShell :

1. Get all installed features to the text file:

Get-SPFeature | Sort -Property Scope,DisplayName | FT -GroupBy Scope DisplayName,Id > c:\AllInstalledFeatures.txt

2. Go to the c:\AllInstalledFeatures.txt and find the relevant feature. Copy the guid.

3. Enable Feature:

Enable-SPFeature -identity "cdd0d039-d2d2-40c8-81fc-0d5657fc2962" -URL http://contoso.com

4. Disable Feature:

Disable-SPFeature -identity "cdd0d039-d2d2-40c8-81fc-0d5657fc2962" -URL http://contoso.com

Backup - Restore Content Database to another farm SharePoint 2010 Power Shell

We need few steps to do it:

1. Backup data from source.

For this we need check which database we use for this web application

and backup the database:

From the SQL Server that your SharePoint farm users and where the instance of DB resides, backup the database.

2.Restore the database to the destination :

Take the backup file to the target SharePoint Farm's SQL Server (where we want to restore it to) and restore the database

Now we have a new content database, but we need to connect it to our SP.

Therefore we open SP Powershell :

3. Dismount old database:

Dismount-SPContentDatabase "Contoso_PortalContent_Old"

4. Mount new :

Mount-SPContentDatabase " Contoso_PortalContent_New" -DatabaseServer "contoso_db" -WebApplication http://contoso.com

SharePoint Power Shell Commands for adding solutions

Adding Solution:

Add-SPSolution "C:\WebPart.wsp"

Installing Solution:

Install-SPSolution –Identity WebPart.wsp –WebApplication http://contoso.com -GACDeployment

Update Solution if exists:

Update-SPSolution –Identity WebPart .wsp –LiteralPath “C:\WebPart .wsp” –GACDeployment

Show Created Date in a result of search center

One of my customers asked me to put created date instead of modified. The solution which I wrote below , maybe is not beautiful, but it works.

First of all, I needed to map managed property in the Central Administration:

Search Service Application -> Metadata Property Mappings :

"New managed property" , for me it was ''CreatedDate" and I needed to map it.

I found some answer in the internet : Article ,

but in my situation it returned 1/1/1601. Therefore , mapped all of the fields from the article separately. So, for me it was Basic:15 - the right result. But for everyone it differences.

And, of course, after do it, I had to run full crawl.

When I did all these things, I needed to edit the search results web part :

1.Insert to "Fetched Properties" new Column "CreatedDate"

2.Insert to the "XSL Editor" new template for CreatedDate

It's all for this time.