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Office 365 - Creating a Subsite (Web) using CSOM in SharePoint Online
Posted
2 days ago
by
Brendan Griffin
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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...
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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SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 Hybrid
Posted
1 month ago
by
Brendan Griffin
I recently presented a session at SharePoint Saturday UK on Configuring SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 Hybrid , as promised to the attendees attached is the presentation (including demo videos). This is an updated version of my previous session at the...
SP2010 workflow performance
Posted
2 months ago
by
Hatzi74
SP2010 and
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
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...
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...
SharePoint Maintenance
Posted
6 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
From time to time you may need to temporarily make SharePoint unavailable due to applying a CU, Service Pack etc. One of my customers places an App_Offline.htm file at the root of the IIS Virtual Directory for each Web Application on each WFE server within...
SharePoint 2010 Organization Browser - Expose more than just User, Title and About Me (Sort Of).
Posted
6 months ago
by
Andy Day [MSFT]
2
Comments
One of my favourite customers was very keen to display the OOB Organisation Browser web part on several of their pages but they wanted to expose more than the default values against the user. I know this can be done by clicking across to the users profile...
SharePoint Evolution Conference Roadshow - SharePoint Online Administration with PowerShell
Posted
7 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
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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...
Creating custom display templates
Posted
8 months ago
by
Steve Jeffery
3
Comments
Custom Display Templates / SharePoint 2013 Recently I have been working with display templates and the Content by Search web part on a customer engagement. I thought I would write up some ‘how to’ type material for you all in case you are...
SharePoint: Planning for the Future - PowerShell Scripts
Posted
9 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
2
Comments
I recently presented a session on planning for the future with SharePoint, as promised to the attendees, below are two of the scripts that I used in my demonstrations to audit Content databases and Site Collections. Content Database Inventory This...
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...
Sizing SharePoint - The 2nd stage Site collection recycle bin
Posted
9 months ago
by
Hatzi74
One of my customers asked me about the impact about the 2nd stage recycle bin on sizing a new farm. They were concerned that the default value of 50% of the current site quota could have a negative impact on sizing the farm and could influence the expected...
Create a SharePoint Application Pool using PowerShell
Posted
10 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
4
Comments
As you may know there isn't an out of the box PowerShell cmdlet available in SharePoint 2010 or 2013 that can be used to create an Application Pool for a Web Application, New-SPServiceApplicationPool ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607595...
Office 365 - Exporting Site Collection Search Configuration using CSOM with PowerShell
Posted
10 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
Chris O'Brien has a fantastic Blog post - Using CSOM in PowerShell Scripts with Office 365: http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2013/12/Using-CSOM-in-PowerShell-scripts-with-Office365.html. One of the examples that he provides is how to import search...
Office 365 - Automating the Creation of a Design Manager Package using CSOM with PowerShell
Posted
10 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
One of the really cool features in SharePoint 2013 is the Design Manager, further information on this feature can be found here: Overview of Design Manager in SharePoint 2013 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj822363.aspx. Design Manager provides...
Office 365 - Automating the Creation of Managed Metadata Groups, Term Sets and Terms using CSOM with PowerShell
Posted
10 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
I've previously written a Blog post on how to output MMS Term Sets and Terms using CSOM - http://blogs.technet.com/b/fromthefield/archive/2014/03/03/office-365-output-managed-metadata-term-sets-and-terms-using-csom.aspx. This next script example can...
SharePoint 2013 - December CU - Exception: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done
Posted
10 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
I was recently helping a colleague to troubleshoot an issue that he was running into whilst deploying the December 2013 CU for SharePoint 2013, the following error was being logged in the upgrade log. Exception: No mapping between account names and...
Office 365 - Create Managed Metadata Terms using CSOM with PowerShell
Posted
10 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
1
Comment
In a follow up to my previous post - "Office 365 - Output Managed Metadata Term Sets and Terms using CSOM with PowerShell" - http://blogs.technet.com/b/fromthefield/archive/2014/03/03/office-365-output-managed-metadata-term-sets-and-terms-using...
Office 365 - Output Managed Metadata Term Sets and Terms using CSOM with PowerShell
Posted
10 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
2
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10 months ago
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Steve Jeffery
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Office 365 - Retrieve User Profile Properties using CSOM with PowerShell
Posted
11 months ago
by
Brendan Griffin
13
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Update 12/04/14 - I have added an example that demonstrates how to export User Profile Properties to a CSV file at the end of this post. The example PowerShell scri pt below can be used to retrieve all user profile properties for all users within a...
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