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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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Error when i try to run a sharepoint 2016 solution from my VS 2015 Community Edition:- "Unable to load one or more of the requested types"

I have the following :- Windows server r2 2012. SharePoint server 2016. i download Visual studio 2015 community. i download Microsoft Office Developer Tools Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2015 . i ...
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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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Deploying Site Scoped solutions Farm wide (All Site Collections)

Is it possible to deploy & activate a site scoped wsp to every site collection in a Farm? I have a VS solution scoped to Site. It creates a pre-populated Choice column. I can build the wsp, Add-...
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Deploy a WSP solution from one farm to another

I have a WSP solution which is a subsite with all its content which I want to install on another farm. What are the implications? Is it possible, if so, is it advisable?
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Adding a 2010 .wsp file to SharePoint Online

Must one know and use code to upload and activate a 2010 SP .wsp file to SharePoint Online? I have a local server housed SP site I created at another location that I'd like to move to my Office365 ...
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Activating Site Template programmatically

I'm deploying a custom Site Template (wsp) through Visual Studio with the code shown below: <Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/"> <Module Name="IRBaseTemplate" List="...
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Supported way to configure the Authentication Provider Selection page in SharePoint 2016

We have a SharePoint 2016 farm with both form-based authentication (FBA) and Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) configured. This means that when unauthenticated users navigate to the site, ...
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Update WSP solution Compatibility mode

We migrated from SP2010 to SP2013. I installed and deployed a wsp without specifying the compatibility mode.Now after migration,visual upgrade is getting delayed because of which the wsp is not ...
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Sharepoint WSP deployment problem

Im working on a project that implements a solution for managing specific types of records for a client. The solution has two projects to it: a project containing the lists(1) and a project containing ...
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how i can break permission inheritance + remove some user groups from a newly created sub-site inside my event receiver

I am working on building a new event receiver which get fired when item is updated, inside my sharepoint enterprise server 2013. now inside the event receiver i am doing the following main steps:- ...
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Activate button is disabled for my new solution

I am facing a problem in activating a solution (.WSP) which represents a site template inside my solution gallery. here is the full senario:- i create a site collection , and for this site collection ...
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Error while deploying Timerjob WSP due to DLL wsp?

I have a timer job solution wsp, the name is alltimerjob.wsp, and my DLL solution name is DLL.wsp. We are trying to deploy both wsps in patch/batch. It will deploy alphabetical order.so all timerjob....
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How to modify a WSP file (convert .cab to .wsp)

I want to do some modifications to a site template, mainly to set its master page , same as mentioned here link so i did the following stpes:- i save a site as template. i went to "Site Settings">>"...
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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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Can a SharePoint Feature be part of multiple Solution Packages?

We have an existing Branding Solution Package (WSP) that contains multiple features for page layouts, list definitions, master pages etc.. Because of the number of files/features (dozens if not ...
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Custom WSP does not work after migrating SharePoint 2010 SP1 on Server 2008 to SP2 Server 2012 R2 / .net 3.5 and 4.0

We have recently migrated SharePoint 2010 SP1 from Server 2008 to SharePoint 2010 SP2 on Server 2012 R2. The SharePoint web application runs well but some of the wsp we deployed does not work which ...
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How to get subsite with custom template to inherit background from parent site without activating SharePoint Server Publishing in Sharepoint 2013?

When I activate SharePoint Server Publishing it takes away my ability to create new templates that would later be stored in my solutions as .wsp files. Is there a way to get a subsite to inherit from ...
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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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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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Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': The list "Lists/Issue Manage" doesn't exist. Please fix the ListUrl attribute

I am working on sharepoint server 2013. and i have developed an event receiver which fires when lists items are updated. now i define the following setting inside the elements.xml for my solution:- &...
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SP2013 - Site templates and design package's heritance

I have a blocking issue on SP 2013 (yes, I know we are now on the edge of SP2016, but that was a customer's choice...) What do we want : We would like to create 3 site templates (using team site, ...
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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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Fetch the source code from wsp in sharepoint 2010

I need to fetch the source code from wsp in SharePoint 2010. I am having the wsp file and i can converted it to a caqb file and opened this zip and extracted it. so i got the DLL. But how to see the ...
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Deployed wsp in SharePoint 2013

I created a wsp in Visual Studio 2012 in my Dev server, I copied the file in my Prod server (C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\BIN folder) and I ran ...
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Importing lists to site collection from a .wsp file

I have created a few lists in an empty site collection, now I would like to save/export this site collection (So I went to the site settings, and exported the site collection under "Site Actions" into ...
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Powershell run error: the term is not recognized

I want to run sharepoint powershell script, but I have this message error: the term '.\DeployPackages' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program... same ...
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SP - Package directory is missing from my Visual WebPart Solution

How to resolve package directory ? Error is this: Error 1 Error occurred in deployment step 'Recycle IIS Application Pool': Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I'try to ...
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"The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation" error while deploying a solution in SharePoint

I am getting following error while trying to deploy solution from SharePoint Central Administration: The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation It happened ...
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Div gets added automatically for a sharepoint note field (multiple lines of text)

I have two columns of note type, GreetingMessage and PopupMessage I have built ascx pages to save and edit it When I save it, I attached to the process and checked the data, For both the columns ...
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Suggested way to deploy Moss 2007 custom solutions in SharePoint 2010

I am working on Moss 2007 to SharePoint 2010 Migration. We have a custom master page deployed as feature. We are using database attach-detach method for migration. 1. How do I deploy custom solutions ...
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How to deploy solution to other applications which is already existing in the farm?

I have a solution already deployed in farm for an application. Now I have added new application in the farm and I would need to use the same solution for the newly added web application as well. Is ...
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Deploying a WSP package

Hi I developed a SharePoint application in Visual Studio targeting our online development site ... http://arpcdev/sites/ipsc/. I cannot target our staging site remotely. This is farm solution which ...
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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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Getting content type not found error in Visual Studio 2013 when deploying SharePoint 2013 solution

I am deploying a SP2013 solution, and there is some custom content types to add. But I get the error: Error 4 Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Specified argument was out of ...
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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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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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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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Wait for retraction of each WSP before proceeding with the next in PowerShell

I am trying to create a PowerShell script for Adding and Deploying WSPs. I have multiple WSPs. Initially, I have to Retract and Remove existing WSPs, before I Add and Deploy them. As we know, the ...
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how to completely remove .wsp solution

how to remove a .wsp solution i try from central admin>system settings>manage farm solution selected a solution and selected Retracting still this status shown Restract. how to completely remove ...
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what is the difference between Retract wsp solution and remove wsp solution in sharepoint 2010

what is the difference between Retract wsp solution and remove wsp solution in sharepoint 2010. i want to remove a wsp solution from our sharepoint 2010 environment completely.
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WSP and SPWebTemplate in CA

I deployed a wsp solution to SharePoint which adds a new web template to the list of available templates. The template shows up when I do Get-SPWebTemplate so I'm able to create a new site collection ...
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Automatically update a list column based on specific criteria (change the item Status if the Item Review Date is met)

I am working on an issue tracking list inside SharePoint server 2013. And I have two columns as part of the list:- Review Status. with these choices; New, in-progress, Need Review. Review Date, of ...
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Store data in the list - save it to list itsef for CSR to read

I would like to ask if somebody has an idea how I can store formatting data for particular list/webpart on a page. My concept: I would like to create JSlink that would be attached in masterpage file. ...
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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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Client Side Rendering deployable via Sharepoint solution package

I would like to create a sharepoint 2013 solution (.wsp) that could be easily deployed and would contain a basic CSR(JSlink) that would modify all views in the site collection. I have been able to ...
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Method of comparing and finding out the difference between two wsp files

Is there any way of finding out the difference between two wsp files that are created using the package option in visual studio, including the parameters like the change-set version , check-in and ...
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.sln or .csproj which one do I turn into a .wsp?

I am wanting to create a wsp from my solution but I am wondering which one I turn into the wsp, the .sln or the .csproj?
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Powershell: Is there a way to extract the Identity from a WSP file?

I want to automatically add and install some wsp files. To check if the file is already installed I (think I) need the identity of the solution that I am about to deploy. How can I extract the ...
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How to rename the site column's field title within a list definition?

I am trying to rename a field title from a list definition. I have the following schema.xml: <List ...> <MetaData> <Fields> ... <Field ID="{2684f9f2-54be-429f-ba06-...
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WSP solution not working properly in NLB environment

We have one exisiting SharePoint project which was created few years ago. Now we have updated the code and created a WSP solution. After deploying the WSP solution in the development environment (...
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