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Create a Site Structure using PowerShell
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
3
Comments
Updated to reflect feedback from Wes MacDonald - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/wes%20macdonald/ Another day, another excuse to write a PowerShell script! This time I was working with a customer who needed to create a Site Collection for...
PowerShell Snippets
Posted
10 months ago
by
Steve Jeffery
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Current Storage Used Figure is Incorrect for a Site Collection
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 keep a record of the total storage consumed by each Site collection; this is presented in Central Administration within the Site Collection Quotas and Locks page and also the Storage Space Allocation page within each Site...
Backup/Restore-SPSite and the Missing Term Set!
Posted
3 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
One of my customers recently wanted to move a Site Collection into a new Content Database, however instead of using Move-SPSite to do this they decided to use Backup/Restore-SPSite and here is where the fun began! One of the key differences between...
Creating a Large Number of Users in AD for testing
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
I recently had to troubleshoot an issue with the User Profile Service Application and needed to build a repro environment, as part of this I needed to create a large number of users in AD to import into the UPA (too many to do manually using AD Users...
Automating Test-SPContentDatabase
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
The SharePoint Health Analyzer included in SharePoint 2010/2013 has a rule named "Missing server side dependencies" . This rule reports details of all artifacts that are referenced within a content database that are not installed within the local farm...
Hybrid Search with SharePoint 2013 and Office 365
Posted
2 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
I recently presented a session at the Yorkshire (UK) SharePoint User Group on Hybrid Search with SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 , as promised to the attendees attached is the presentation (including demo videos). Brendan Griffin - @brendankarl
The Magically Disappearing "Destination Folder" Option
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
I recently investigated an interesting issue for a customer. As you may know, when uploading a Document to a Document Library you are presented with the option to select which folder within the library to upload the document to, if the document library...
Who are Global Business Support? What Do They Do?
Posted
9 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
It's been nearly three weeks since my last post, how time flies! I'm back with a slightly different post, the contributors of this Blog are from the PFE and CTS teams within Microsoft UK, these teams are part of a larger team known as Global Business...
SharePoint Evolution Conference Roadshow - SharePoint Online Administration with PowerShell
Posted
7 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
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SP2010 workflow performance
Posted
2 months ago
by
Hatzi74
SP2010 and
Export Members of a SharePoint Audience
Posted
6 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
Here is a quick PowerShell script that I put together for a customer to enable them to export the usernames and e-mail addresses of all users that are members of a specific SharePoint Audience to a CSV file. Please update the three highlighted values...
BI Virtual Labs for customers to have a dabble
Posted
7 months ago
by
Zaheer Hussain (MS)
Are you curious about Business Intelligence and want to have a little bit of a dabble on some VMs to understand the possibilities better? V-Lab Central are now hosting some fully loaded BI Demo VMs with a walkthrough script which you can quickly spin...
Office 365 - Creating a Subsite (Web) using CSOM in SharePoint Online
Posted
2 days ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
SharePoint Online has a number of PowerShell Cmdlets - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp161374(v=office.15).aspx, these Cmdlets include New-SPOSite which provides the ability to create a Site Collection, unfortunately it's not possible...
The Magically Disappearing Sub-Site!
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
Working with a customer recently and a sub-site had magically disappeared in their SharePoint 2010 environment, it wasn't available to recover from the Site Collection recycle bin so they had to use their 3rd party backup tool to recover the sub-site...
Flush the SharePoint Configuration Cache
Posted
8 days ago
by
Brendan Griffin
From time to time you may need to flush the SharePoint configuration cache on servers within your farm, my colleague Joe Rodgers blogged about this many moons ago - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/josrod/archive/2007/12/12/clear-the-sharepoint-configuration-cache...
SharePoint Update Deployment - Automating Parallel Content Database Upgrades
Posted
14 days ago
by
Brendan Griffin
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Audit settings in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Jeffery
As you will have seen in some of our other blog entries here, we often get asked to assist our customers in creating PowerShell scripts. I've recently been working on a script to help ensure that a client is able to set site collection auditing. For...
Build site navigation from CSV file
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Steve Jeffery
One of our customers needed some help to build out navigation from a .csv file in their Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment. PowerShell seemed to be the most simple option for them; so my colleague Andy and I created the following script...
Identifying Sites using the Publishing Feature
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
Below is a simple script that iterates through all Site Collections in all Web Applications within a farm and outputs a list of Site Collections that have the Publishing Feature enabled, I needed this recently during a customer engagement to help them...
Remove SharePoint 2007 Top Navigation using PowerShell.
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Andy Day [MSFT]
Following on from Steve's great post yesterday about creating site Navigation from CSV it got me thinking, what If I want to use this to create the Global Navigation on a farm that already has a hotch-potch TopNav structure? If this is the situation...
Determine Site Template
Posted
over 1 year ago
by
Brendan Griffin
Another day, another PowerShell script! This time a script that will return details about the Site Template that a SharePoint site is using. A customer of mine has a large number of custom site definitions and regularly needs to determine the template...
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