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New-SPProfileServiceApplication -SiteNamingConflictResolution documentation bug
As of the writing of this post, there’s a weird discrepancy with the SharePoint 2013 New-SPProfileServiceApplication documentation and the actual expected values for the -SiteNamingConflictResolution...
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Hot on the heels of my previous post, New-SPProfileServiceApplication -SiteNamingConflictResolution documentation bug, the -MySiteManagedPath parameter also has inconsistent documentation with the...
View ArticleLink Roundup 1
Here are some interesting links I’ve come across. Consider this a test of a future recurring feature. A lot happened at the SharePoint Conference 2014 last week. I wasn’t there, though between Yammer...
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New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication : Value cannot be null.
Got this exception when creating a search service application in a multi-server farm: New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication : Value cannot be null. Parameter name: indexLocation Found the resolution...
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Script: Clearing the SharePoint configuration cache on all servers in the farm
Need to clear the configuration cache on all of your SharePoint servers but don’t want to take the time to do it manually? If you’ve configured PowerShell Remoting between the farm servers and are...
View ArticleAdd and remove MIME types from SharePoint (PowerShell)
Petro Margaritis has a PowerShell script for adding a MIME type to a SharePoint web application: Setting Trusted IIS MIME Types In SharePoint using PowerShell. I modified it to allow you to remove the...
View ArticleGet a list of SharePoint sites that allow anonymous authentication
For administrators who manage (usually) public-facing SharePoint farms, it’s good to keep tabs on the sites that allow anonymous users. Configuring anonymous access is a multi-step process — there are...
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Missing Metadata
We had a customer call to report an issue in a demo site we have for Bonzai Intranet. There was a page that was supposed to display items from a document library based on the value of a managed...
View ArticleClear the Configuration Cache in a SharePoint 2010, 2013, or 2016 farm
Here is a script that will clear the SharePoint Configuration Cache on all servers in the farm. This is a more compact script than the one I previously released. Simply copy to one of the servers and...
View ArticleAutomating a tedious task: Testing SharePoint page performance
Here’s a quick and dirty PowerShell script that hits a supplied SharePoint-related URL and outputs the correlation ID so you can check the ULS logs to further investigate why the page took longer than...
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