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SharePoint 2013 Site Collection Export - String or binary data would be truncated
Problem: During a site collection export, we received the nebulous SQL Server error “String or...
Date: 01/11/2018
Patching AppFabric (Distributed Cache) for SharePoint 2013
Patching App Fabric on a SharePoint 2013 Farm Introduction The Distributed Cache is a new feature in...
Date: 08/18/2017
Consolidate SharePoint Content Databases
When managing a SharePoint environment, there are times when the number of content databases grow,...
Date: 04/28/2017
Nintex To-Do Task - First Response Applies
When creating a Nintex workflow, one of the actions you can add is a "to-do task". You are...
Date: 08/07/2015
C# .NET version of SharePoint 2010's Add-SPShellAdmin
When you need a user or group to have PowerShell access to a SharePoint content database, you simply...
Date: 06/15/2015
Differences in Email Attribute Between UPA and Active Directory
There may be times when you receive a report where a user's email address in Active Directory...
Date: 01/20/2015
Getting Current List of Users Who Have Permissions to a Site/Web
I ventured out on the task this week of trying to generate a list of users who currently have some...
Date: 11/11/2014
ULS Logs Not Consistently Being Written to Usage Database
SharePoint gives you the option to write ULS logs to the Usage database. In order for this to work,...
Date: 10/23/2014
PowerShell Script to Find Site Collections not Using a Storage Quota
You may come across situations where you need to know which site collections in your farm are not...
Date: 09/18/2014
Changing Site Owner and Secondary Owners in a SharePoint Farm
Sometimes a user who is a site owner or secondary owner across many SharePoint sites leaves the...
Date: 08/08/2014
User Profile Application - Looking Past the 2 Million Limit
Introduction This post takes a deep dive into the databases that support SharePoint’s User...
Date: 11/11/2013
Regular Expression for a SharePoint Correlation ID
As someone who is horrible with regular expressions, it took me longer that it should have to figure...
Date: 10/14/2013
Sandbox Quota on Site Not Matching Central Administration
I have not been able to determine the reason why, but sometimes you will find that your sandbox...
Date: 09/13/2013
LoopbackCheck and Scheduled Tasks
I came across a scenario where the same scheduled task would work on some servers, but not on...
Date: 04/26/2013