(t&t) trouble & the troubleshooting

My recommended approach to manage SharePoint WSP solutions is; Powershell instead of GUI approach using SharePoint administration. Despite that, you can use the Central Administration to do that. Open SharePoint Powershell or windows Powershell using ‘Run as administrator’. If you open windows default Powershell , you need to load the SharePoint snap in explicitly, it auto loads in case of SharePoint Powershell . PS C:\Windows\system32> add-pssnapin Microsoft.Sharepoint.Powershell We will see some important Powershell cmdlet which are useful for solution management. (This article will be mainly focused on main parameters available with cmdlets, for all parameter details, please refer to Ms technet https://technet.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/ee906565.aspx . Add-SPSolution Add-SpSolution -LiteralPath [path of the wsp file with name and extension] Add a SharePoint WSP solution to the Farm. Build your solution in visual studio, ->Publish to a fo

SharePoint: PowerShell - BackUps and Restore Open Windows PowerShell using Run as admin PC> add-pssnapin Microsoft.sharepoint.powershell BackUp & Restore in SharePoint 2013 In SharePoint 2013, you can use Windows PowerShell functionality to perform a backup or restore process for the following items: Farm Site collection Configuration database Services List or document Farm BackUp Syntax: Backup-SPFarm -BackupMethod -Directory [-AssignmentCollection ] [-BackupThreads ] [-ConfigurationOnly ] [-Confirm [ ]] [-Force ] [-Item ] [-Percentage ] [-WhatIf [ ]] Another Syntax(This doesn’t backups actually, it shows the items to be backed up in this command): Backup-SPFarm -ShowTree [-AssignmentCollection ] [-ConfigurationOnly ] [-Confirm [ ]] [-Item ] [-WhatIf [ ]] Example: PS C:\Windows\system32> backup-spfarm -directory \\KSSHRPT01\FarmBackUp -backupmethod full PS C:\Windows\system32> backup-spfarm -directory \\KSSHRPT01\FarmBa

SharePoint PowerShell to Manage Term Store / Add Terms //get the term store $mysite = get-spsite “ http://yoursite:portnumber ” $taxonomySession = get-taxonomySession -site $mysite $termStore = $taxonomySession.TermStores[“Managed Metadata Service”] //now we will create the Term Store groups. Before we create any group we will check if the group already exists Example 1: if($termstore.groups["News Keys"] -eq $null) { $termstoregroup = $termstore.creategroup("News Keys");  $termstore.description = "News Group";  $termstore.addgroupmanager ("KS\spadmin"); $termstore.addcontributor ("ks\k.singh");$termStore.CommitAll();} This is not working as “ description ” is not an identified property. Example 2: if($termstore.groups["Main News Keys"] -eq $null) { echo "group is not there";  echo "group is there"; $termstoregroup = $termstore.creategroup("Main News Keys"); $terms