SharePoint 2013

In SharePoint 2013 we can have different DNS for each site collections using Host Named Site Collection feature, instead of following the same URL of the Web Application (Path-based site collection). Host Named Site Collections are the preferred method to deploy the sites in SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 as many features are optimized for this. Path-Based Site Collections : When we create a Site Collection in Central Administration under any of the web application default the base URL of the Web Application is prepended and we can add more managed paths as well from manage web applications in Central Admin. So how many numbers of site collections we are going to create under this web application the same path will be maintained. And to have the unique DNS for a site collection we need to use alternate access mappings which, which will not be optimum in certain scenarios .so We can go with creating Host Named Site Collection. As well as we ca...

In SharePoint 2013 we will be having requirements to assign unique permissions to a list or library in a site. This we can achieve from the list or Library Settings page Permissions for this list option through UI. Same functionality we can achieve through Powershell script as well which will help us to maintain it as a generic script so that we can use it in the future for the same kind of requirement. Here we are going to generate a generic script which will obtain the parameters like Site URL, List Name, Group Name and Permission level dynamically to assign the unique permission to the respective list. One more script which will get the parameters Site URL, Group Name and Permission Level and loop through all the lists and libraries in the site and assign the provided permission level to the List. Generating the Script: To generate the script we need to open the Windows Powershell ISE and write the Powershell commands to do the actions. Below is the script to assign...