Marj Palmer, Premier Field Engineer
Sharing nuggets of wisdom about Microsoft products and services gleaned from the field
What is Hidden User Information (Userinfo) List in SharePoint 2010/2013 and how to fix when it causes a site collection to show old User metadata properties in People Picker control or in a Person or Group column?
What is the User Information List in SharePoint? The User Information List...
Date: 03/14/2016
How Does Renaming an Active Directory Group Impact User Access, People Picker, and Audience Targeting in SharePoint 2010?
I've done some research and testing to determine how rename of a Group in Active Directory...
Date: 11/20/2015
Monitoring SharePoint Distributed Cache Service for Scale-Up (memory) or Scale-Out (add cache host)
What are recommended procedures for monitoring the Distributed Cache Service on SharePoint 2013 for...
Date: 10/07/2015
Reconciling SharePoint 2013 Content Database Size to Total Size of Site Collections
Have you ever looked at the total physical size of content database (DB) files in SQL Server and...
Date: 08/12/2015
SharePoint Slowness/Latency Troubleshooting Questions
Following is a list of questions which can be useful aid for investigating SharePoint...
Date: 08/12/2015
SharePoint 2010 Workflows Best Practice - Purge Workflow History List Items
BEST PRACTICE: Define requirements for when SharePoint 2010 Workflow History list items can expire...
Date: 08/07/2015
How to Run CSOM-EnumerateSiteUrls.ps1 Using CSOM and Search to Gather List of Personal Sites in SharePoint Online
This post provides step-by-step instructions to help you understand how to successfully run the...
Date: 07/10/2015
Pros/Cons of 3 Options to Change URL and Bindings for a Web Application in SharePoint Server
In this post I discuss pros and cons of 3 options to change a URL for a SharePoint Server web...
Date: 07/06/2015
Supported Way to Configure Additional URL for a Web Application in SharePoint Server
Example Scenario: You want to add another user-friendly URL (https://inside.contoso.com) to an...
Date: 07/06/2015
Recommendations for SharePoint Setup User Account and SharePoint Farm Administrators Group
SharePoint Setup User Account Per Microsoft published TechNet guidance for SharePoint...
Date: 07/06/2015
Security Best Practices for Project Online & Project Server 2013 in Project Permissions-Mode
What are best practices for setting up and administering security in Project Online and Project...
Date: 07/05/2015
Best Practices for Authorizing User Access to SharePoint Sites Using SharePoint Groups/Permissions/Inheritance
The Office support topic “Introduction: Control user access with permissions” explains...
Date: 07/05/2015