• Hybrid Search with SharePoint 2013 and Office 365

    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!

    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

    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

    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).

    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...