We recently did an in-place upgrade of our SharePoint servers (app and web) from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2. After the upgrade the UPS did not work and web applications failed with a message: Could not load user profile The SharePoint logs showed an issue with [...]
Useful SQL to check your indexes. If avg fragmentation is larger than 15% consider rebuilding the indexes: SELECT OBJECT_NAME ( object_id,database_id), * FROM [sys].dm_db_index_physical_stats, NULL, NULL, NULL, DEFAULT) AS ddips order by avg_fragmentation_in_percent desc [...]
This script will show you how many Workflow progress records each workflow in your environment has generated. SELECT i.WorkflowName, COUNT(p.InstanceID) [Number of WF Progress Records], i.siteid, i.webid, i.listid FROM dbo.workflowinstance i inner join dbo.workflowprogress p on i.InstanceID = p.InstanceID GROUP BY i.WorkflowName, i.siteid, i.webid, i.listid ORDER BY COUNT(p.InstanceId) DESC This [...]
If you experience it where you have customized the capture screen of a SharePoint list using Nintex Forms and the default SharePoint form still opens instead of the Nintex Form you might be using a custom New Item form. Open your list using SharePoint Designer and make sure the NewForm.aspx [...]
Typical issue here is the content access account and the DisableLoopback setting in the registery as per https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/25863.access-is-denied-verify-that-either-the-default-content-access-account-has-access-to-this-repository-or-add-a-crawl-rule-to-crawl-this-repository.aspx This did not solve it for us. Our environment is a full intranet and users login\authenticate via AD. To prevent auth popups on the site we add the intranet sites to the [...]
If you often create documents in Photoshop where the canvas is a certain size, it’s a good idea to save that size as a preset. A document preset in Photoshop can be used to quickly open a new file that has a few predefined basic features e.g., the canvas size, [...]
As you design your website, you might think that images are a “nice to have” element that don’t serve much of a purpose beyond looking good. But images on your website do so much more than paint a pretty picture. [...]
Here are eight tips for ensuring your passwords are as strong as possible. [...]
Have you ever noticed that some URLs start with “http://” while others start with “https://”? Perhaps you noticed that extra “s” when you were browsing websites that require giving over sensitive information, like when you were paying bills online. But where’d that extra “s” come from, and what does it mean? [...]
Your domain name is a key part of your online identity. At the most basic level, a domain name is a website address (such as http://clickatech.co.za), but it’s actually a little more complicated than that. Here are some commonly asked questions about domain names. What exactly is a domain name? [...]
