Clearing the SharePoint Configuration Cache
Once in a while you may have a need to clear the outdated configuration cache in SharePoint 2010/2013/2016. For example, sometimes the timer job tends to get stuck and clearing …
Quick Edit Mode in SharePoint 2013 and “Unable to communicate with server” Error
Quick Edit Mode in SharePoint 2013 and “Unable to communicate with server” Error – I love the Quick Edit mode in SharePoint, it really expands the functionality and makes it …
This User Profile Application’s connection is currently not available. The Application pool or user profile service may not have been started
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 …
An error occurred while processing the incoming e-mail – unknown alias
Error can occur when upgrading SharePoint to 2013/2016. Even though the aliases are set correctly in the content DB and on the actual library the primary alias is kept in …
Duplicate Accounts in People Picker
We experienced an issue where the people picker showed user accounts that were removed from AD and the UPS. This cause issues with our workflows etc as users would select …
Lists.UpdateListItems and Person Field
The Lists.asmx web service enables you to CRUD items on a SharePoint list (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/lists.lists.updatelistitems(v=office.12).aspx) The default options for the person field however does not work e.g: i:0#.w|domain\username Display Name domain\username …
SharePoint is currently configured to block intranet calls
Quick fix: $farm=get-spfarm $farm.properties.disableintranetcalls=$false $farm.properties.disableintranetcallsfromapps=$false $farm.Update()
Slow People Picker
We recently updated our AD configuration to include a 2-way trust with a number of other AD domains. Since the change our People Picker has been extremely slow (up to …
Unable to retrieve all data
We recently ran into some issues where we could not export a Sharepoint 2010 list OR successfully edit it in datasheet view. Even though the list is fairly big we …
SPList.GetItemById() and SPList.Items.GetItemById()
When using code to access a specific item in a SharePoint list there is a big difference between the following 2 lines of code: SPList.GetItemById() SPList.Items.GetItemById() The first line is …