My SharePoint World! - Nishant Shah
How-Tos, Thoughts and Experiences with Microsoft SharePoint !
Migrate to SharePoint Online (O365–SPO) from On-Premise SharePoint or fileshare using new PowerShell migration APIs
**Updated to include SharePoint On-Prem to Office 365 SharePoint Online Scenario Important This...
Author: Nishant Shah [MSFT] Date: 07/18/2015
The mysterious issue of disappeared green ticks in OneDrive for Business
I use “OneDrive” for storing any personal documents / pictures and “OneDrive for Business” for...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 01/19/2015
How to host an existing on-prem SharePoint 2013 virtual machine environment onto Microsoft Azure IaaS step-by-step
I have a functional, on premise SharePoint 2013 Test / Dev environment. I now want to host this...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 08/11/2014
White Paper: Data Collection Process for SharePoint
Understanding the data-collection process in SharePoint: This white paper describes how to configure...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 07/08/2014
Detect and Repair Content DB orphans / Security Corruption (Missing ScopeID) in a SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Farm using Windows PowerShell (Updated!)
We have come across issues like unable to access / unable to delete / unable to change permissions /...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 03/23/2014
Total number of list items in a SharePoint Web Application
Ever wondered, how many list items you have in a Web Application?You can use this Windows PowerShell...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 05/04/2012
How to sync picture from SharePoint to Active Directory and hence to Outlook and Lync
Lets talk about how we can get a picture in user's My Site to be synchronized with Active Directory...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 02/21/2012
Troubleshooting User Profile Sync Issues in Office SharePoint Server 2007
In SharePoint Server 2007, we often run into situations where some attributes of a user is updated...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 08/23/2010
How to delete orphan configuration objects from SharePoint farm
The information in this blog is intended for orphan configuration objects and NOT orphan SharePoint...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 04/14/2010
Approve failed for the Distribution Group
I came across a scenario where we were using SharePoint Directory Management Service (just SMTP/POP3...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 01/08/2010
How does Audience Targeting in a List / Document Library work?
Often there is a misconception about how Audience Targeting in a List or Document Library works;...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 12/21/2009
SubSite to Site Collection
Lets consider a scenario where a subsite (web) becomes substantially larger and you wish you could...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 06/02/2009
How to configure Forms Based Authentication – Active Directory (LdapMembership)
Enable Forms Based AuthenticationThis process can be broadly divided into 3 sections: Extend the...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 05/22/2009
Setting up Managed Properties in SharePoint Server 2007
Let’s consider a scenario where your Active Directory administrator extends AD schema and adds /...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 05/22/2009
How to configure SSL with Host Headers on IIS 6
Open “Command Prompt” and run the following commandcscript.exe adsutil.vbs set /w3svc/<site...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 05/22/2009
How to setup variations in MOSS 2007
In this document I have covered an example of setting up the MOSS site in French. (Site variations...
Author: Nishant Shah Date: 05/22/2009