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Create SharePoint Site (SPWeb) using Custom Template and PowerShell

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I got a task to setup company’s hierarchy using our own custom created site template. My first priority is to achieve this task through PowerShell. Creating site collection or sub site through PowerShell is fairly a simple task, the command for creating sub site is New-SPWeb http://sharepoint/subweb1 -Template “STS#0” Ref: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607579(v=office.15).aspx I tried to replace …

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SharePoint – Setting up a new production server by restoring the Content database

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I had a requirement in which I had to build a new SharePoint server and migrate the current data to the new server. The current production server ran into many system level issue and the company who setup the server couldn’t be approached. After nailing down almost all the major issues which included lot of …

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