How to hide menu item in SharePoint 2013 ?

Lets take up the scenario to hide menu item TestLink which comes up on all the pages across the site under About us Menu section (as shown below)

steps 1:


Open your site and navigate to site settings as show in below screen shot







2. Click on Navigation link from Look and feel section

3. Scroll down on Navigation settings page till global navigation setting as shown below , select the TestLink which needs to be hided and click on Edit from top menu

4. a new pop up window called as Navigation Link is opened ( as shown below )  , at the end on Navigation link please add the group which can see the Link . here i had added viewers group so users belonging to viewers group can see this 

5. Click on Ok button on Navigation Link page and also on Navigation Settings page .

6. Now Navigate to Home page and test Menu item link using user account other than viewers group it should show as below.

Increase upload file size in SharePoint 2013

Hi All , this blog will talk about how to increase default upload file size for SharePoint Web Application using central admin configuration, this is one of the common issue while uploading video or any other large files to Sharepoint. 

Steps 1: Navigate to central admin and open “Manage web applications” link

Step 2: once web application management page is opened, select

https://downstream.petronas.com and click on general setting from ribbon button

As shown below

Step 3: Once general settings pop up window is opened, scrow down to Maximum upload size section and change the default 250 MB to 500 MB, scroll down to save the change by clicking on ok button.

The default maximum file size is 250 MB . This is a configurable up to 2 GB(2,0470 MB).

 Thanks !!