Questions tagged [solution-package]
SharePoint solution is deployed to a SharePoint server by using a solution package (.wsp) file. You can use Visual Studio to organize your SharePoint Project Items into Features and to create a package to deploy your SharePoint Features.
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Getting AssemblyFileVersion of a wsp **without** a feature
I got a monitoring page where I show the version of all web parts, features etc.
If I use features with Event Receiver I can easily get the version. If the Feature has no event receiver I solved that ...
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Difference between Feature ID and Solution ID
Is there a difference between Feature ID and Solution ID for any WSP package?
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Deploying SharePoint 2010 WSP to MOSS 2007
Please help me on this. Is it possible to deploy a WSP solution developed in SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2007. I know this is very akward question, but right now I am asked this very same question ...
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How to generate a .wsp file for my Event Receiver using visual studio to be deployed inside my live environment
I have created an event receiver inside Visual Studio 2012. now i want to generate a .wsp file representing my solution to be deployed inside our live server. now i navigate to the following location ...
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How to export .wsp solution files from SharePoint 2007 Farm
I want to download/export all .wsp solution files from SharePoint 2007 farm in order to deploy them again on new environment. How can i export or download .wsp files? I don't want to extract .wsp ...
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Adding a WSP through the Management Shell?
I have a WSP that I am trying to install on my development SharePoint server. I used the Management Shell to do this:
Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath c:\temp\mySolution.wsp
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Install-...
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Retract solution in sharepoint 2010
How to retract a sharepoint solution without having remaining list intances, workflows, data etc?
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Solution deployment stuck on deploying SharePoint 2013
Those are the properties of my wsp :
I use SPSD to deploy my solution, there is no error on SPSD log and SP log .
I Restarted the SharePoint Timer service and the administration services on all my ...
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Renamed Project, WSP name doesn't change
I have renamed my SharePoint project "SolutionName.ProjectName" in Visual Studio 2013, but the wsp is still being generated as the "SolutionName". How do I ensure the wsp takes the name of the project
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Deploy to Style Library and Publishing Images using WSP from Visual Studio
Is it possible to deploy some default files to folders like Style Library and Publishing Images from a SharePoint project created on Visual Studio 2010?
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Possible to modify the contents of a WSP through code?
I have a base WSP and I would like to create an automated process to update one of the files that it contains (an XML file).
Is there anything in the Object Model that would allow me to do this? ...
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Import wsp with studio 2010
I imported a WSP that was in the gallery (put in there by the old developer) into a new studio wsp import project. It looks really noisy (too much stuff that we don't even use when creating a site ...
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How making changes to a third-party solution file.wsp
I have a third-party solution "file.wsp" that I don’t have the source code for it, I want to make a change to it, how can I tell it to tell me articles and examples? Thanks to all.
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How to Identify the WSP of the deploy webparts
I have a requirement, where i need to identify the wsp to which the webpart belongs.
Scenario: We are migrating from SharePoint 2010 to 2013. Existing Sharepoint has multiple WSPs and each WSP has ...
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Best approach to re-use an Event receiver among multiple subsites and multiple lists
I am working on SharePoint 2013 team site collection, and I have the following architecture -
A team site collection which contain 15 sub sites. Each subsite represents one of our customers.
On each ...
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Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Feature with Id 'xxxxxxxxxxxxx' is not installed in this farm
I am getting the below mentioned error when deploying my workflow project.
Error 1 Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Feature
with Id 'bfb411c4-b0f9-4ebd-9707-0c31ebd98553' ...
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Solution Deployment : Error occurred for solution solution.wsp - Error: The copying of this file failed: Telerik.Web.Design.dll
I am getting below error while deploying solution.
In Central Admin
Some of the files failed to copy during deployment of the solution.
In ULS
Solution Deployment : Error occurred for solution ...
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Retract solution (WSP) in Visual Studio 2013 - Delete Content Types
When I use Retract command in VS 2013 on my WSP, content types do not get deleted on the site. So whenever I want to update content types, I need to recreate the site. I've done some analysis on this ...
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Adding ScriptResx.ashx Compatible .Resx files to your SP Solution
I asked a question maybe yesterday or two days ago tops about using ScriptResx.ashx with custom resource files. I noticed that at first my custom file wasn't being rendered through the handler because ...
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SharePoint Farm feature not deploying to all members
I have a SharePoint 2010 farm solution (with some timer jobs tied to SPTimerV4 and a LockType of None) that is not deploying it's GAC'ed DLL to all servers in the farm. This timer job must run on ...
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Windows PowerShell Vs. SharePoint PowerShell for Deployments
I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 with SharePoint 2010.
I see two PowerShell tools on this machine: Windows PowerShell and the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.
Does anyone know the difference? Can ...
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How Visual Studio checkes that SharePoint has been installed on my local PC?
I want to build wsp file for SharePoint 2013, but it is not installed on my local PC. What should I do to make this thing possible? I guess that I need to tell Visual Studio somehow that SharePoint ...
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How do I Activate the Signatures Workflow?
After fixing the intranet site that was deleted, I am re-establishing some pages that were lost. I have a site template that I created and when I try to use it on the top level site, I receive the ...
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Iterative deployments using WSP in SharePoint2010
I am looking for best practices for deploying frequent custom code changes to SharePoint 2010 server, my changes include all kind of changes like web parts, content types, workflows, feature receivers,...
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Deleted Feature Receiver is Still Running
Here is a complicated one I have been banging my head against for months.
I have a SharePoint 2010 site feature with a custom navigation provider. I have created a feature receiver that will add the ...
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how to update wsp / solution programmatically
I am trying to find a way how to update a SharePoint solution programmatically with C#. (I already know how to do this with the powershell command Update-SPSolution).
I have tried using this code but ...
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Update-SPSolution & Items in a Document Library
I have the following situation:
solution1.wsp that has a document library with files inside (I use a module element for adding new files to the feature)
and solution2.wsp that has a document library ...
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Custom Workflow Activity - Solution does not exist
I've created a custom Workflow Activity, per the instructions at http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/Sandboxed-workflow-activities-in-SharePoint-2010.aspx.
I created my custom action, and I deployed it ...
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Where are deployed solutions being used?
I'm in a MOSS 2007 environment and am looking to find a way to see where solutions listed in the stsamd -o enumsolutions are activated in site collections. How would I go aout finding out where these ...
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wsp deployment sometimes doesn't update gac-ed assembly on all servers
We are finding recently, with our wsp deployments, that on some of the WFE/APP servers in our farm that the assembly contained in the WSP, which should be gaced, is updating some servers but not all. ...
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Deploying all components of an InfoPath form plus managed code as a solution
Has anyone successfully packaged up an InfoPath form solution with the following features?
Custom site columns for properties promoted from form
Custom content types to be associated with form
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Updating SharePoint artifacts declaratively
Content types cannot be updated declaratively. In other words, if a content type is a part of solution package, deploying new version of the content type will not make any changes to existing content ...
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Custom action in personal menu - language
I have created personal menu item for Sharepoint 2013. How to create personal menu that picks language automatically the same way as other SP menu items do?
I have this in Elements.xml:
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Can two site columns with same ID in two solutions, deployed to two site collections in same farm interfear?
I have found a weird behavior of SP2013:
I have 2 WSP solutions
In each, there is elements.xml file containing site column. In both solutions, ID and Name of columns is the same. Site column is of ...
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Uninstall and remove the solution from SharePoint Server 2010 thoroughly
I want to ask how to uninstall and remove the solution package from SharePoint Server 2010 thoroughly?
I have a problem when I deploy a solution in SharePoint Server 2010.
This solution had deployed ...
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Why does WSP Deployment Type 'ApplicationServer' require features to be manually installed?
When I create a WSP with Deployment Type set to WebFrontEnd and deploy, all of the features contained within are automatically installed. Features that are set up as ActivateOnDefault="TRUE" (Farm or ...
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How to avoid WSP deployment globally using Visual Studio 2010?
How can we avoid the Globally Deployment of a WSP using Visual Studio 2010?
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UAT and Production environment can use the same server?
I have custom SharePoint solution. I want to create UAT and Production environment on the same server. Is it possible to deploy the solution on a single server?
Scenario - I have one custom ...
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What is the recommended best practice for updating a SharePoint Solution (WSP)?
What is the best way to update a SharePoint solution in a multi-server production environment? We have 2 Web Front Ends which are hardware load balanced and 1 application server. I don't want to ...
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Update a existing deployed farm solution
I've deployed a farm solution to a test environment by following the Technet Deploy solution packages page - works well. But development continues, and I need to redeploy.
When I follow the process ...
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Deploying the same WSP file with a different name
I have created wsp file using Visual Studio 2010 that servers an application pages in site. My solution file name is "Portal.wsp".
I have already deploy this solution file on my server it running ...
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Extract Wsp solutions
Our dev team has developed SharePoint solutions, suddenly the source control is damaged and we don't have back up from the source code - Only the deployed wsp solutions.
Is it possible to reflect the ...
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Deploy Solutions to Application or Web Front End Server
My SharePoint environment consists of 3 servers: SQL, App, WFE. SharePoint Foundation Web Application service is running on WFE. Which servers in my environment do I need to deploy WSPs (WFE and/or ...
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.wsp/.cab file creation in SharePoint
So I had to dismantle a .wsp file to correct some pathing issues that wouldn't fix any other way in feature.xml (this is a site template), and now can't seem to find a decent utility to put the .wsp/...
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How can I make sure the features in my solution activate in the correct order?
I'm working on a fairly large SharePoint 2010 project. We have broken up the code into a number of solutions, each containing a number of features which we deploy via powershell and activate in the ...
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Export SPD List Workflow to Visual Studio 2010
is it possible to export a SPD List associated workflow into a .wsp-Package for further editing in Visual Studio 2010? Since it is possible with reusable workflows i wanted to know whether it is ...
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error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'DirectoryServices' does not exist in the namespace 'System'
I have deployed a feature (wsp) on our new production server but get the following error:
error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'DirectoryServices' does not exist in the namespace 'System'
The ...
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SiteCollection Feature Upgrade Access Denied for Farm Admin
My solution contains Site Collection scope features and has been deployed to Site Collections that the farm administrator has not been granted any explicit permissions.
If the farm administrator ...
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SharePoint Responsive Package PNP tools not able to enable feature in Package
I am trying to implement Responsive UI Package for SharePoint on-premises (2013 and 2016) from this link
http://dev.office.com/blogs/announcing-responsive-ui-package-for-sharepoint-on-premises-2013-...
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SharePoint .wsp retraction error
I am deploying a solution by Visual Studio.
I get the error during Retraction:
The solution does not have a WSP file associated with it.
I tried to do IISRESET and also to restart the server.
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