Transform the “SharePoint” Suite Bar Text into a Breadcrumb with PowerShell

March 11, 2013

Where is the breadcrumb in SharePoint 2013? There isn’t one out-of-the-box, but this post helps you to get one back. The out-of-the-box Seattle or Oslo master pages don’t have a breadcrumb located in their HTML markup. That makes navigating from sub-sites to their parent site difficult, if you have not set a good global navigation structure.

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Provisioning Site Columns and Content Types via a SharePoint App

March 6, 2013

Now that sandbox solutions with code behind are deprecated in SharePoint 2013, we need to find new ways to provision content types and site columns to a site. One way to do it is to provision them via a PowerShell script, which is not a bad idea. Another way could be to provision them via a SharePoint app.

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