Wondering mind
The thoughts of a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer on anything and everything SharePoint.
Azure Tidbit - Big data analyzing
Hello All, Saw this and thought everybody might find this of interest....
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/30/2017
O365 Tidbit - Collaboration tools in SPO have you figured out who is in your Inner loop?
Hello All, I don't know if you had an opportunity to see this session at Ignite, but if not I...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/28/2017
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving, I Hope your table is full of food and laughter, enjoy the time with family. Pax
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/23/2017
O365 Tidbit - Governance guidance for O365
Hello All, With new features being introduced to O365 and the growing foot print you have in O365 it...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/23/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - Enabling license enforcement
Hello All, I have a customer who recently wanted to create a mixed license farm, and here are the...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/21/2017
How to build a SharePoint farm using DSC...my first Github project
Hello All, Based on feedback I’m providing some more information for my scripts. So first I’ve...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/16/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - What WFE am I connected to
Hello All Recently got into a discussion around how to figure out which WFE a user is connected to...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/13/2017
O365 Tidbit - Adding a disclaimer to your login page
Hello All, Recently a customer asked how to add a disclaimer to their login page and i found that...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/09/2017
Working with SharePoint and DSC - Configuring your nodes
**UPDATE: I have modified the script and provided better how to steps, follow these links How to......
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/07/2017
Working with SharePoint and DSC - Generating the MOF files and letting it all just happen
**UPDATE: I have modified the script and provided better how to steps, follow these links How to......
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/06/2017
Supportability article that pertains to anybody performing a Domain migration
Hello All, If you have the configuration as expressed in the article where you have two domains, and...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/03/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - Quick write-up on monitoring SharePoint Distributed Cache
Hello, Here is some quick information around how to monitor the Distributed Cache Service, and...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/02/2017
Microsoft Teams - Security and Compliance
Hello All, Question about Teams retention police came from another customer and I thought it might...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/31/2017
SharePoint Tidbits - OneDrive sharing improved
Hello All, This just came across my inbox and I thought I would share it with you, I thought that...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/27/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - The future of Office Mix Add-in and Mix.Office.com
Hello All, On October 20, 2017, Microsoft announced Office Mix is becoming a part of PowerPoint and...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/25/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - The unofficial RSS for O365 Roadmap
Hello All, Let me say this again this is unofficial and not maintained by Microsoft, but has a nice...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/23/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - MaxTotalSizeInBytes and SharePoint 2016
Hello All, Recently while helping a customer with a SharePoint 2016 install I discovered a change...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/05/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - How to redirect sites for the breakup of a web application
Hello All, I worked on figuring out what I believe is the best way to redirect Site Collections as...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/02/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - SiteMaster and provisioning MySites in SP2016
Hello All, Recently working with a customer as we build out the SharePoint 2016 farm we hit an issue...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/29/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - Changing farm default document behavior for the farm
Hello All, These days I am working with one of my customers to deploy/migrate to SharePoint 2016....
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/26/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - Customizing SPO Sites
Hello All, It took some digging and discussion but here is some general info/rules I've put together...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/25/2017
Teams tidbits - Creating team sites programmatically
Hello All, I love automation so I thought this might interest you. First of all the Product group is...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/21/2017
Working with SharePoint DSC - Part Deux
**UPDATE: I have modified the script and provided better how to steps, follow these links How to......
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/13/2017
Working with DSC and SharePoint
**UPDATE: I have modified the script and provided better how to steps, follow these links How to......
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/31/2017
SharePoint Online and Private CDN
Hello All, Recently was working with a customer and Private CDN's, when the customer mentioned how...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/17/2017
Lesson learned playing with DSC and SharePoint
Hello All, It has been a while since i last wrote you, and for that i apologize but these days i am...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/10/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - SharePoint 2016 and Zero Down time simplified
Hey Guys, Hopefully you have read about Zero downtime in SharePoint 2016 it is quite simple and...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 02/23/2017
SharePoint Tidbit - SPO with Power Pivot and other BI stuff
Hello All, Recently I was asked the question “How do you use Power Pivot with SharePoint Online" and...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/01/2016
Removing permissions from a list in MOSS 2007 using PowerShell
Hello Guys, Recently my customer asked me to create a script to remove permissions from a list,...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/29/2016
SharePoint 2016, SQL 2016 and licensing
Hello All, This is currently not meant to be an exhaustive article, but more of a foot note in my...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/25/2016
SharePoint Tidbit - Better way to setup Perfmon tracing
Hello All, Was working with a platform PFE and he provided me with the script that he uses to have...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/05/2016
SharePoint Tidbit - GUI for PowerShell commands
Hello All, Earlier this week I was going thru my RSS feed and found an article about the cmdlet...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 08/04/2016
SharePoint 2013 - Unable to manage User Profile Connection
Hello All, Recently working with a customer on an issue and since we found the solution, I want to...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/27/2016
SharePoint Tidbit - SharePoint 2013 Crawl is getting the error "Sandbox worker pool is closed"
Hello All, As a customer of mine stands up there SharePoint 2013 farm, they are using least...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/25/2016
SharePoint Tidbit - SharePoint Hybrid book now available
Hello All, A book was just recently released titled “Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/20/2016
SharePoint Tidbit - Getting the error "Failed to use non CLS compliant type"
Hello All, My customer is currently running MOSS 2007 and as we prepare for there migration, we have...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/18/2016
Published to HeyScriptingGuy - 7/15/2016
Hello All, Watch for an article I published to HeyScriptingGuy on using PowerShell and SPO. It is...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/13/2016
SharePoint Tidbit - SharePoint 2013 and Kerberos
Hello All, Been a while since I wrote anything, had some personal stuff I was taking care of, but...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/13/2016
Setting up remote PowerShell for SP Raas
Hello All, Lately when I setup remote PowerShell to run the Raas tool (For more info about the...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/18/2016
Blast from the Past
Hey All, One of my customers has a MOSS 2007 farm and we started having some problems with User...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/14/2016
SharePoint Tidbit - Making Graceful shutdown actually work in SharePoint 2013
Hello All, We have discussed Distributed Cache in SharePoint 2013, and I believe we discussed...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 06/25/2015
SharePoint 2013 Site Collection Permission
Hey Y'all, First of all some of the bland off the shelve information. Security model has several...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 02/26/2015
Information about Office Web Applications
Hello All, Here are some thoughts on Office Web Apps (OWA) for SharePoint 2013. Scalability –...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/29/2015
What to do once you have disabled the Workflow Cleanup Timer Job
Sooooooo you have figured out that you disabled the Workflow History Cleanup timer job, and now...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/22/2015
SharePoint Upgrade and database growths
Hello All, I have been working with customers on upgrades and figured I would provide you with some...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/21/2015
Stress testing SharePoint 2013
Hello All, A customer of mine wanted some high level information on stress testing SharePoint as...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/15/2015
Auditing and the WorkFlow history list in MOSS 2007
Hello All, Recently I was working with a customer who has MOSS 2007 and as we are making...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/14/2015
My List of SharePoint troubleshooting tools
Netmon or your favorite Network Sniffer SharePoint is a website, and there is lots of communication...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/30/2014