PowerShell: Repairing SharePoint Content Databases
Introduction When you get a warning from SharePoint saying that a database has orphaned content, the message is not the most helpful. This is an example of health analyser message …
Empty SharePoint Recycle Bins Programmatically with PowerShell
Empty SharePoint Site Collection Recycle bin using PowerShell:Recycle bin in SharePoint is a container used to retain deleted items such as list items, documents, document libraries, lists, and sites to …
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Once in a while you may have a need to clear the outdated configuration cache in SharePoint 2010/2013/2016.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 …
Nintex DelegateAllTasks
Our environment runs a lot of Nintex 2016 Workflows, to ease support we separate each workflow solution’s history and tasks lists. For normal maintenance and finding issues works quite well. …
Nintex – Useful SQL Queries
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 …
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
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 …
[Me] filter not working
I have a SharePoint list that I populate everyday using C# code. In short I step through Active Directory to get all active users and then populate a SharePoint list. …
A different version of this App is already installed with the same version number
This error is show as a correlation error on SharePoint when trying to add your app to your site. This typically happens when you removed\upgrade a current app and reinstalled. …
Unable to obtain master key
Experienced this on SharePoint 2016 when managing the Secure Store Service. Service also show error when viewing Service Application list in Central Admin. To resolve just manage Service Application and …