SharePoint is a web-based collaboration and document management platform developed by Microsoft. It can be used to create websites, manage documents, and facilitate team collaboration. SharePoint comes in two main versions: SharePoint 2019 and SharePoint 365. SharePoint 2019 is the on-premises version of the software, which means it is installed [...]
Permission management in SharePoint is always a complex task, especially in large environments. Granting permissions in SharePoint becomes cumbersome when you are trying to clone an existing user’s access rights. Consider this scenario: You have an existing user in a department granted access to various SharePoint web applications, sites, lists, [...]
I have a process for our payroll department where I need to duplicate a SharePoint document library every month, keep the folder structure and permissions (permission set per folder) but remove all files. I achieved this using ShareGate and Powershell. I use ShareGate to copy the library and keep the [...]
We had an issue where the SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser.LoginName displayed the incorrect (old) login for a user i.e. user loginname was changed. In most cases it works to run the migrateuser command to link the old and new account. But in some cases this does not pull through correctly. The following solution worked [...]
This error usually comes up when you install and uninstall an App more than once on SharePoint 2013. There are some solutions online that relates to SharePoint Online and updating manifest files when developing your OWN apps. In our case this was a 3rd party app which caused the issue. [...]
Been facing an issue where the Search Service is not crawling a simple site collection in our SharePoint farm. Had a scratch through the crawl logs and found the following error: sts4://myintranetsite/siteurl=sites/finance/siteid={42461088-3f26-4c2d-937e-c630c7033307} The SharePoint item being crawled returned an error when requesting data from the web service. (The item was [...]
