Dear All Here is the way that you can do the site collection backup and restore in to the another server site collection How to take a backup  Use Central Administration to back up a site collection You can use Central Administration to back up a site collection. To back up a site collection by using Central Administration Verify that the user account performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators group. Additionally, verify that the Windows SharePoint Services Timer V4 service has Full Control permissions on the backup folder. In Central Administration, on the Home page, in the Backup and Restore section, click Perform a site collection backup. On the Site collection backup page, select the site collection from the Site Collection list. Type the local path of the backup file in the Filename box. note Note: If you want to reuse a file, select the Overwrite existing file check box. Click Start Backup. You can view the general status of all bac...

INSTALLING SHAREPOINT 2013 WITHOUT A DOMAIN ACCOUNT I’m sure that at one point every person that is working with Sharepoint has cursed upon the impossibility to install SharePoint without a Domain Controler. Of course I’m not speaking of prod environment here. But on your virtual machines of any kind to try new functionality or to install new features. Lately – today actually – I installed SharePoint 2013 on a Windows Server 2008. One of the first step under installation is to choose if you want the standalone install or not. A good word of advice : Never choose the standalone installation as you will certainly regret it later on, and it will be too late. The problem being that when you run the SharePoint configuration wizard you need to specify a login name and password for the installation. If the account is not a domain account the wizard will refuse to take you to the next step with an error stating that the user  must be a valid domain account. You will get an...

Yes have been a while didn't have a post... It is getting harder to create post, because everybody is creating excellent posts on different areas and don't want to repeat info but... I was surprised by the quantity of persons that don't know and asking me how to configure the Document Library to have links, i know this not that hard topic and you already know some posts talking about this, so i will create this guide for this persons that are learning on SharePoint. To start we need to access our Document Library and select the Ribbon option Library Settings if you have the correct permissions. After you access the Library settings you will need to access Advanced Settings. On Advanced Settings you will have the option “content Types” you will need to select the option “Allow management of content types” as “Yes”, this will allow you to add more content types to your Document Library. After you accept this option you can add the Content types, there will be t...

Dear Readers I have a SharePoint notefield control(in my page layout) and trying to get the ID of the of the control using JavaScript. In ASPX: <SharePointWebControls:notefield FieldName="INFO_x0020_Document_x0020_Title" runat="server" InputFieldLabel="Enter a question. For example, FAQ: <Question>?" CssClass="notefieldStyle"></SharePointWebControls:NoteField> In HTML(after Rendering) <textarea name="ctl00$PlaceHolderMain$ctl00$ctl00$TextField" rows="2" cols="20" id="ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_ctl00_ctl00_TextField" title="INFO_Document_Title" class="notefieldStyle" dir="none">dfsdfdsfsdf</textarea> Here is a solution:  alert($("input[title='INFO_Document_Title']").attr('ID')); or this one // get the element with the title 'Info_Document_Title' var myspfield = $(" [title='INFO_Document_Title...