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SharePoint 2013 Site Collection Export - String or binary data would be truncated

Problem: During a site collection export, we received the nebulous SQL Server error “String or...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 01/11/2018

Patching AppFabric (Distributed Cache) for SharePoint 2013

Patching App Fabric on a SharePoint 2013 Farm Introduction The Distributed Cache is a new feature in...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 08/18/2017

Consolidate SharePoint Content Databases

When managing a SharePoint environment, there are times when the number of content databases grow,...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 04/28/2017

Nintex To-Do Task - First Response Applies

When creating a Nintex workflow, one of the actions you can add is a "to-do task". You are...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 08/07/2015

C# .NET version of SharePoint 2010's Add-SPShellAdmin

When you need a user or group to have PowerShell access to a SharePoint content database, you simply...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 06/15/2015

Differences in Email Attribute Between UPA and Active Directory

There may be times when you receive a report where a user's email address in Active Directory...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 01/20/2015

Getting Current List of Users Who Have Permissions to a Site/Web

I ventured out on the task this week of trying to generate a list of users who currently have some...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 11/11/2014

ULS Logs Not Consistently Being Written to Usage Database

SharePoint gives you the option to write ULS logs to the Usage database. In order for this to work,...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 10/23/2014

PowerShell Script to Find Site Collections not Using a Storage Quota

You may come across situations where you need to know which site collections in your farm are not...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 09/18/2014

Changing Site Owner and Secondary Owners in a SharePoint Farm

Sometimes a user who is a site owner or secondary owner across many SharePoint sites leaves the...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 08/08/2014

User Profile Application - Looking Past the 2 Million Limit

Introduction This post takes a deep dive into the databases that support SharePoint’s User...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 11/11/2013

Regular Expression for a SharePoint Correlation ID

As someone who is horrible with regular expressions, it took me longer that it should have to figure...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 10/14/2013

Sandbox Quota on Site Not Matching Central Administration

I have not been able to determine the reason why, but sometimes you will find that your sandbox...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 09/13/2013

LoopbackCheck and Scheduled Tasks

I came across a scenario where the same scheduled task would work on some servers, but not on...

Author: Ambergahill Date: 04/26/2013