Are we using SharePoint Enterprise Features?
Here’s a quick PowerShell script (actually two scripts) that will go through your web applications, site collections, and sites and tell you which ones are using Enterprise features. The first script...
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New-SPProfileServiceApplication -SiteNamingConflictResolution documentation bug
As of the writing of this post, there’s a weird discrepancy with the SharePoint 2013 New-SPProfileServiceApplication documentation and the actual expected values for the -SiteNamingConflictResolution...
View ArticleNew-SPProfileServiceApplication -MySiteManagedPath documentation bug
Hot on the heels of my previous post, New-SPProfileServiceApplication -SiteNamingConflictResolution documentation bug, the -MySiteManagedPath parameter also has inconsistent documentation with the...
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Script: Clearing the SharePoint configuration cache on all servers in the farm
Need to clear the configuration cache on all of your SharePoint servers but don’t want to take the time to do it manually? If you’ve configured PowerShell Remoting between the farm servers and are...
View ArticleAdd and remove MIME types from SharePoint (PowerShell)
Petro Margaritis has a PowerShell script for adding a MIME type to a SharePoint web application: Setting Trusted IIS MIME Types In SharePoint using PowerShell. I modified it to allow you to remove the...
View ArticleGet a list of SharePoint sites that allow anonymous authentication
For administrators who manage (usually) public-facing SharePoint farms, it’s good to keep tabs on the sites that allow anonymous users. Configuring anonymous access is a multi-step process — there are...
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Which server or farm is SharePoint using for Office Web Apps?
If you find yourself with an unfamilar SharePoint 2013 farm with a problem with Office Web Apps the first step you’ll probably take is to figure out where Office Web Apps is running. Finding this out...
View ArticleCan’t create My Site because user is ‘Enqueued’
Symptom A user’s personal site (i.e. their My Site) cannot be created. Looking at the ULS logs under the Personal Site Instantiation category, the creation failed because it is already queued. [Enque...
View ArticleClear the Configuration Cache in a SharePoint 2010, 2013, or 2016 farm
Here is a script that will clear the SharePoint Configuration Cache on all servers in the farm. This is a more compact script than the one I previously released. Simply copy to one of the servers and...
View ArticleAutomating a tedious task: Testing SharePoint page performance
Here’s a quick and dirty PowerShell script that hits a supplied SharePoint-related URL and outputs the correlation ID so you can check the ULS logs to further investigate why the page took longer than...
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