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 in SharePoint Central Admin There is no information on which content database is affected, although you can click on the [...]
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 a number of days defined by the SharePoint administrator. Deleted items in recycle bin can be restored if needed. Here [...]
Once in a while you may have a need to clear the outdated configuration cache in SharePoint 2010/2013/2016.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 the cache helps in that situation. You can either clear the SharePoint configuration cache manually or use a PowerShell script. [...]
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 so much closer than Excel. However it looks like to functionality has been watered down and limited a bit more [...]
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. But as always there always pros and cons. One of our senior executive recently resigned with immediate effect leaving quite [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. One of the fields is a Person column and I use the command below to get the user account: userprofile [...]
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. SharePoint is supposed to CLEAN up after an uninstall but this usually fails so when trying to add the new [...]
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 REFRESH key using your original Secure Store passphrase [...]
