This script has already been produced in a previous post, but for convenience I thought I would replicate it here. #Get the Site Collection $SiteCollection = Get-SPSite http://%5BSharePoint Site] #Change to you site URL #Get the Term Store ID $TaxSession = Get-SPTaxonomySession -Site $SiteCollection $TermStore = $TaxSession.TermStores["Managed Metadata Service"] #Change to your service name $TermStore.Id... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010: Standard User Profile Properties
Recently I was asked by one of our developers to provide a list of the standard user properties; this took a bit of time to dig up, as the planning document is 300+ pages. So to save a bit of time in the future I thought I would replicate this information here. User Profile property... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010: Accessing the Managed Metadata Service via Code
I was recently asked to provide some code which could query the managed metadata service of a SharePoint 2010 implementation and extract the terms for use in a separate web site. This turned out to be a bit more complicated than I initially thought as the architecture called for use of the SharePoint Web Services,... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010: An Introduction to Content Types
Content types are a very useful feature of SharePoint 2010 (and earlier versions), especially in regards to organising your documents and content. In effect a content type is a type of generic SharePoint content for example when you click on the new document option in a document library, you are using a document content type,... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010 Upgrade: One or more field types are not installed properly.
Whilst working on a recently upgraded SharePoint 2010 site (database attach upgrade) I attempted to modify an existing web part. As soon as the page went into edit mode I was presented with the following SharePoint error: "One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these... Continue Reading →
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