FromTheField

Real world experiences of SharePoint engineers from Microsoft UK

Test-SPContentDatabase : Automating missing feature removal

Recently I've been working with a customer to help them with a SharePoint migration project. One of...

Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 08/26/2017

SharePoint Saturday Cambridge

I was fortunate to speak at SQL/SharePoint Saturday Cambridge last weekend, this was an absolutely...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 09/12/2016

Removing Multiple Site Collections from Search Results in SharePoint Online

I recently blogged about a scenario that my customer was having whereby they needed to temporarily...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 07/28/2016

Removing a Site Collection from Search Results in SharePoint Online

One of my customers presented me with an interesting scenario recently, their security team were...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 07/20/2016

Export-SPWeb - exporting lists

Hi. Recently I've been working with the Export-SPWeb Cmdlet, helping out a customer who needs to...

Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 07/14/2016

Site collection provisioning and customisation scenarios for SharePoint online

Site collection provisioning and customisation scenarios for SharePoint Online I’ve worked with a...

Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 07/06/2016

Cloud Search Service Application - No Results Returned from On-Premises Search Center

The Cloud Search Service Application is a brilliant new-ish feature of SharePoint 2013 and 2016 that...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 06/21/2016

Outputting SharePoint Online Tenant Settings using CSOM

Here is a quick script that outputs the current SharePoint Online tenant settings using CSOM with...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 06/01/2016

SharePoint Saturday Paris

I had the pleasure of speaking at SharePoint Saturday Paris yesterday (28th May), this was an...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 05/29/2016

SharePoint Responsive UI Package - Issue with JQuery

I've been having a play around with the fantastic SharePoint Responsive UI package that was recently...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 05/04/2016

SPUpgradeException - Error message when you run the "SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard" when you create a New SharePoint 2016 Farm

SYMPTOMS On a Windows Server 2012 R2 server that has SharePoint Server 2016 installed, when you run...

Author: Godwin Tenzing Date: 04/15/2016

I'm Speaking at the Collab365 Summit

I'll be speaking at the Collab365 Summit about SharePoint Hybrid, this event will be held...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 04/12/2016

Changing the Time Zone of a Site using CSOM with PowerShell

Here is a quick example of how you can change the time zone of a site using CSOM with PowerShell, in...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 03/16/2016

For the GUI people

Hi. I'd like to share a new site with you. It's something I've been working on as a...

Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 03/03/2016

Measuring latency for stretched SharePoint farm topologies

This blog post focuses on measuring latency for SharePoint stretched farm topologies. As per this...

Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 02/23/2016

February CSOM Update for SharePoint Online - Deleting Items from the Second Stage Recycle Bin

The February CSOM update for SharePoint Online which is now available provides the ability to empty...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 02/18/2016

O365 - Enable Deprecated Managed Metadata Terms from a CSV file using CSOM in PowerShell

The tenth post in a series of blog posts that walk through the process of performing configuration...

Author: pete williams Date: 01/19/2016

O365 - Deprecate Managed Metadata Terms from a CSV file using CSOM in PowerShell

The ninth post in a series of blog posts that walk through the process of performing configuration...

Author: pete williams Date: 01/19/2016

O365 - Delete Navigation Hover Text on Managed Metadata Terms from a CSV file using CSOM in PowerShell

The eighth post in a series of blog posts that walk through the process of performing configuration...

Author: pete williams Date: 01/19/2016

O365 - Enable and Configure Navigation on Managed Metadata Terms using CSOM in PowerShell from a CSV file

The seventh post in a series of blog posts that walk through the process of performing configuration...

Author: pete williams Date: 01/19/2016

O365 - Configure Tagging on Managed Metadata Terms using CSOM in PowerShell

The sixth post in a series of blog posts that walk through the process of performing configuration...

Author: pete williams Date: 01/19/2016

O365 - Update Managed Metadata Term Set Description using CSOM in PowerShell

Perhaps not the most sophisticated of scripts but, a valuable one nonetheless. The example...

Author: pete williams Date: 01/19/2016

O365 - Delete Labels on Managed Metadata Terms from a CSV file using CSOM in PowerShell

The fifth post in a series of blog posts that walk through the process of performing configuration...

Author: pete williams Date: 01/19/2016

O365 - Create Labels on Managed Metadata Terms using CSOM in PowerShell from a CSV file

The fourth post in a series of blog posts that walk through the process of performing configuration...

Author: pete williams Date: 01/19/2016

O365 - Update Default Labels on Managed Metadata Terms using CSOM in PowerShell from a CSV file

The third post in a series of blog posts that walk through the process of performing configuration...

Author: pete williams Date: 01/19/2016

O365 - Delete Managed Metadata Terms using CSOM in PowerShell from a CSV file

The second blog post in a series of blog posts I am going to publish that walk through the process...

Author: pete williams Date: 01/19/2016

O365 - Create Managed Metadata Terms from a CSV file using CSOM in PowerShell

This is the first in a series of blog posts I am going to publish that walk through the process of...

Author: pete williams Date: 01/19/2016

Revoking a Users Sessions from SharePoint Online

A new PowerShell Cmdlet was released with the latest version of the SharePoint Online Management...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 01/08/2016

Quickly Verify the Version of a SharePoint Online Tenant

I have put together a quick script that can be used to confirm the version number of a SharePoint...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 01/07/2016

SharePoint Online - Identifying the Correlation ID for a Request

If you ever need to raise a support case with Microsoft relating to an issue that you are...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 12/11/2015

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in SharePoint 2016 Beta 2

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) has been available in Office 365 (including SharePoint Online) for some...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 12/04/2015

Streamlined Topologies and MinRole in SharePoint 2016 (Pt2)

Following on from part 1 of this blog around the concepts of MinRole and Streamlined topologies. In...

Author: Yusuf Moraby Date: 11/20/2015

Introduction to Streamlined Topologies and MinRole in SharePoint 2016 (Pt1)

Traditional SharePoint Server deployments from 2007 – 2013 all had the three main tiers: Web...

Author: Yusuf Moraby Date: 11/20/2015

Measuring Upload and Download Performance of SharePoint Online

One of my customers are in the process of moving to Office 365, they are a global customer with...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 11/13/2015

For those who attended my session at the European SharePoint Conference (10th November 2015) will...

Author: Yusuf Moraby Date: 11/13/2015

Forecast Content Database Growth

One of client requested PowerShell script to forecast content database growth with following...

Author: zahed hussein Date: 11/13/2015

My PowerShell Scripts for SharePoint are now Available on GitHub

As you may have noticed from my previous Blog posts, I love PowerShell! Over the past few years...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 11/06/2015

Finding in-place records in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell

Discovering in-place records. Records management in SharePoint (2010 and 2013) is a great feature....

Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 11/04/2015

Automating deployment of complex search service application topology

Recently my client expressed a desire to automate deployment of search service application with not...

Author: zahed hussein Date: 11/03/2015

Create a SubSite (Web) using a Custom Template in SharePoint Online using PowerShell and CSOM

Earlier this year I wrote a Blog post that demonstrated how to create Sub-Sites (Webs) within a...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 10/21/2015

Collab365 Global Conference - SharePoint Online Administration with PowerShell

I have (literally) just finished delivering a session at the Collab365 Global Conference. I have...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 10/08/2015

Office 365 - Tracking OneDrive for Business Adoption

I was recently asked by a customer to assist them analyse their OneDrive for Business adoption,...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 09/23/2015

Office 365 - Automating the Configuration of Information Rights Management (IRM) using CSOM

Yet another post about Office 365 and PowerShell - I'm sure I'll run out of topics soon! One...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 09/07/2015

No non-security fixes for SharePoint 2010 after October PU

Just a heads-up that the SharePoint 2010 October PU will be the last PU containing non-security...

Author: Dima Chernov Date: 09/07/2015

Scaling out/ provisioning a SharePoint '20XX' testing environment

Something I am particularly fussy about is test environments... As an engineer, whenever I start...

Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 09/01/2015

Office 365 - Moving and Merging Managed Metadata Terms using CSOM with PowerShell

I've previously posted about using CSOM to automate the addition and management of Managed...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 08/28/2015

SQL Best Practice for SharePoint 2010 and 2013

Over the past few years I have delivered a number of SharePoint health checks, and one of the most...

Author: Yusuf Moraby Date: 08/25/2015

I'm speaking at the European SharePoint Conference 2015

In case you missed it, the European SharePoint Conference 2015 programme...

Author: Yusuf Moraby Date: 08/25/2015

I'm Speaking at the Collab365 Global Conference

I'm pleased to announce that I will be speaking at the Collab365 FREE virtual 24-hour conference...

Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 08/18/2015

Uploading reports (.csv) to a SharePoint site.

This is something that I run into very often. Administrators running scripts that provide insight...

Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 08/17/2015

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