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Delete and Recreate a SharePoint Online Root Site Collection

In Office 365 SharePoint Online we haven’t had a need to delete and recreate any root site collections yet.  Mainly because we have been working with clients from the moment they begin their journey to the cloud and are able to advise them to create a separate /SandboxSite Collections instead of testing in the root. …

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Resolving Content Databases are Full Error

The Problem Error messages in SharePoint can be scary, but sometimes they’re actually quite useful. Take this one below for example. At first glance, it would appear something is wrong with your databases, and/or you’ve run out of disk space. Error message: The content databases in this cluster are full. You cannot add more Web …

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SharePoint Centered Layout in Wiki Pages

In a recent project, we were working with a customer who was using a fixed width centered design in their corporate intranet (using the Publishing feature’s “/Pages” library and the Site Master Page), but the System Pages of the site were still full width. Since wiki libraries use the System Master Page, they were full …

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3 Ways to Improve SharePoint Quick Launch Style

In our last couple of SharePoint branding projects here at itgroove, we’ve added a little bit of sparkle to SharePoint’s left navigation, or “Quick Launch”. Here’s how we added some style with a bit of CSS and jQuery. First, we wanted each site’s OneNote Notebook to pop, as it’s different from a list, library or …

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Detecting Edit Mode with JavaScript / CSS

One challenge we often need to overcome working with Publishing mode in SharePoint is quickly and effectively knowing if a page is in edit mode. This lets us apply different CSS styles or quite often disable functionality that is not needed in Edit Mode. (Especially surrounding Responsive Design). While SharePoint gives some great MasterPage level …

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SharePoint Web Part Style

Looking to add a bit of sass to your web parts? With this bit of jQuery and CSS, we’ll take control of the display of SharePoint web parts and their titles and icons. Here’s an example: In the script below, we’ll target the icon <img> that SharePoint allows you to set via the Web Part …

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The Little JavaScript Gifts from SharePoint

Ever needed to quickly figure out what web application you are in using JavaScript? Or get the site collection URL? SharePoint has a fantastic somewhat little know JavaScript object declared in the MasterPage. _spPageContextInfo This object contains a ton of useful contextual information that can be accessed simply by referencing it: <script type=”text/javascript”> var loginName …

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How to Get the SharePoint Farm Build Version Using PowerShell

This is surprisingly easy to do actually, it’s just 2 simple lines of PowerShell. $farm = Get-SPFarm$farm.BuildVersion The result will be something like this below. Then all you need to do is take that number and you can look at the version numbers over at Todd Klindt’s blog. He always keeps these lists up to …

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How to Determine Your SharePoint 2013 Search Index Location (and Default Search Index Location)

During the setup of your Search service application, if you created your search service using PowerShell, you’re be able to specify a default search index location similar to the lines below. $NewIndexPath = “D:\TOP\SearchIndex” New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent –SearchTopology $newtopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostWF1 -IndexPartition 0 -RootDirectory $NewIndexPath However, believing that you’ve set it properly, and actually being able to …

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