Category Archives: PowerShell

Strange PowerShell behaviour when getting list content type’s ID

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Bernado

For some reasons when retrieving the ID of a content type at the list level in PowerShell, the ID of the parent content type (i.e. the one at the site level) is always returned. Below is my script: Running the … Continue reading →

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Merge-SPLogFile does not return any record for correlation ID

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Bernado

Given a correlation ID, Merge-SPLogFile is one of the best ways to track down a SharePoint error as this cmdlet searches for this ID across the ULS of all servers in the farm. You can even specify other filtering criteria, such … Continue reading →

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‘WARNING: Template is not found and is not applied’ when using custom WebTemplate with PowerShell

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Bernado

WebTemplate is the new way of doing site definitions in SP2010 (see this for a good overview: http://sharepointchick.com/archive/0001/01/01/site-definitions-vs.-webtemplates.aspx). Where you need to refer to the custom WebTemplate, you’d use the ‘{FeatureID}#WebTemplateName’ syntax, e.g: {56C8E551-565B-482A-A038-CCC18A878607}#MyWebTemplate I however have found that this does … Continue reading →

Posted in PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, WebTemplate | 4 Comments