FromTheField
Real world experiences of SharePoint engineers from Microsoft UK
I'm Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Cambridge!
I'll be speaking at SharePoint Saturday in Cambridge on 12th September. My session will be on...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 08/11/2015
SharePoint 2013 and SCOM Management Pack Ranking the Rules
-As SharePoint evolves with new features, the foot print for on-premises customers grows and more...
Author: Yusuf Moraby Date: 08/06/2015
SharePoint Roles and Responsibilities (SharePoint Online)
Further to my blog regarding SharePoint Roles and Responsibilities (On-Premises and Azure IaaS) this...
Author: Yusuf Moraby Date: 08/03/2015
SharePoint Roles and Responsibilities (On-Premises and Azure IaaS)
SharePoint is a platform that I have found to be surrounded by a lot of misconception. Many people...
Author: Yusuf Moraby Date: 08/03/2015
SharePoint - Determining Network Usage in Preparation for a Migration to Office 365
One of my customers is in the process of migrating their SharePoint On-Premises environment to...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 07/31/2015
OneDrive for Business FAQ from the field (July 2015)
I have been getting a lot of questions recently about OneDrive for Business from the field....
Author: Yusuf Moraby Date: 07/29/2015
SharePoint - Automating web.config Changes for Proxy Server Settings
One of my customers recently needed to provide the ability for end users to access external RSS...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 07/01/2015
Office 365 / Azure AD - Identifying Disabled Users
If you need a quick way to identify users in Azure AD that are sync'd from On-Premises AD whose...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 06/19/2015
SharePoint Online - Usage Reporting
I recently stumbled across this article that discusses the Office 365 Reporting Web Service which is...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 05/28/2015
SharePoint Online - Blocking Sandboxed Solutions that contain Custom Code
The SharePoint Online Management Shell has recently been updated. This update includes the ability...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 05/15/2015
Hosting SharePoint in Azure - Creating Resources in Resource Groups
I was recently helping a customer to deploy SharePoint into Azure IaaS, one of their requirements...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 05/07/2015
SharePoint 2013 & SQL AlwaysOn - SharePoint Evolution Conference 2015
Here are the slides (including recordings of the demo's) from my session earlier this week at...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 04/23/2015
Office 365 - Change the Locale of all OneDrive for Business Sites using PowerShell
The SharePoint Online CSOM package has just been updated to include some additional functionality,...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 04/13/2015
Office 365 - Create Permissions Level and Groups using CSOM
I was recently helping a customer to deploy the OneNote Class Notebook App (which is really cool) to...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 04/02/2015
Office 365 - Identify External Users
Here is a quick script that can be used to identify external users that have access to each Site...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 03/13/2015
Office 365 - Create a List and Add Custom Fields using CSOM
I previously Blogged about creating a List and adding Site Columns using CSOM and PowerShell -...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 03/03/2015
Office 365 - Upload and Set a Master Page
We all know that Custom Master Pages for SharePoint Online are not recommended, right? I had a...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 03/03/2015
Increasing verbosity of ULS logs during a known error
I had a question from a customer recently about increasing the verbosity of their SharePoint ULS...
Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 02/20/2015
Office 365 - Deleting a Web Part using CSOM
I was recently assisting a customer to automate the creation and customization of their SharePoint...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 02/20/2015
PowerShell Web Access - a walkthrough.
PowerShell Web Access Recently on a customer engagement, I was asked to help out with a solution to...
Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 02/18/2015
Office 365 - Identify how much storage a OneDrive site is consuming with PowerShell
UPDATE: It now appears to be possible to use Get-SPOSite to bind to a OneDrive site (I'm sure...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 02/17/2015
Office 365 - Creating a Subsite (Web) using CSOM in SharePoint Online
SharePoint Online has a number of PowerShell Cmdlets -...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 01/26/2015
Flush the SharePoint Configuration Cache
From time to time you may need to flush the SharePoint configuration cache on servers within your...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 01/20/2015
SharePoint Update Deployment - Automating Parallel Content Database Upgrades
I recently helped a customer to deploy a Cumulative Update to their SharePoint environment, due to...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 01/13/2015
SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 Hybrid
I recently presented a session at SharePoint Saturday UK on Configuring SharePoint 2013 and Office...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 11/29/2014
Hybrid Search with SharePoint 2013 and Office 365
I recently presented a session at the Yorkshire (UK) SharePoint User Group on Hybrid Search with...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 11/04/2014
Backup/Restore-SPSite and the Missing Term Set!
One of my customers recently wanted to move a Site Collection into a new Content Database, however...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 10/13/2014
Export Members of a SharePoint Audience
Here is a quick PowerShell script that I put together for a customer to enable them to export the...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 07/24/2014
SharePoint Maintenance
From time to time you may need to temporarily make SharePoint unavailable due to applying a CU,...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 07/04/2014
SharePoint 2010 Organization Browser - Expose more than just User, Title and About Me (Sort Of).
One of my favourite customers was very keen to display the OOB Organisation Browser web part on...
Author: Andy Day [MSFT] Date: 07/04/2014
SharePoint Evolution Conference Roadshow - SharePoint Online Administration with PowerShell
I recently presented a session at the SharePoint Evolution Conference Roadshow -...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 06/18/2014
BI Virtual Labs for customers to have a dabble
Are you curious about Business Intelligence and want to have a little bit of a dabble on some VMs to...
Author: Date: 06/05/2014
Creating custom display templates
Custom Display Templates / SharePoint 2013 Recently I have been working with display templates and...
Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 05/14/2014
SharePoint: Planning for the Future - PowerShell Scripts
I recently presented a session on planning for the future with SharePoint, as promised to the...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 04/28/2014
Who are Global Business Support? What Do They Do?
It's been nearly three weeks since my last post, how time flies! I'm back with a slightly...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 04/17/2014
Sizing SharePoint - The 2nd stage Site collection recycle bin
One of my customers asked me about the impact about the 2nd stage recycle bin on sizing a new farm....
Author: Hatzi74 Date: 04/03/2014
Create a SharePoint Application Pool using PowerShell
As you may know there isn't an out of the box PowerShell cmdlet available in SharePoint 2010 or...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 03/26/2014
Office 365 - Exporting Site Collection Search Configuration using CSOM with PowerShell
Chris O'Brien has a fantastic Blog post - Using CSOM in PowerShell Scripts with Office 365:...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 03/21/2014
Office 365 - Automating the Creation of a Design Manager Package using CSOM with PowerShell
One of the really cool features in SharePoint 2013 is the Design Manager, further information on...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 03/14/2014
Office 365 - Automating the Creation of Managed Metadata Groups, Term Sets and Terms using CSOM with PowerShell
I've previously written a Blog post on how to output MMS Term Sets and Terms using CSOM -...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 03/07/2014
SharePoint 2013 - December CU - Exception: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done
I was recently helping a colleague to troubleshoot an issue that he was running into whilst...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 03/06/2014
Office 365 - Create Managed Metadata Terms using CSOM with PowerShell
In a follow up to my previous post - "Office 365 - Output Managed Metadata Term Sets and Terms...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 03/05/2014
Office 365 - Output Managed Metadata Term Sets and Terms using CSOM with PowerShell
This PowerShell script will connect to an O365 SharePoint tenant and output the following...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 03/03/2014
PowerShell Snippets
PowerShell Snippets As Premier Field Engineers, we often find that our customers need assistance...
Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 02/28/2014
Office 365 - Retrieve User Profile Properties using CSOM with PowerShell
Update 12/04/14 - I have added an example that demonstrates how to export User Profile Properties to...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 02/27/2014
Office 365 - PowerShell Script to Upload Files to a Document Library using CSOM
UPDATE: My colleague Roger Cormier has created a far superior version of this script that is able to...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 02/19/2014
Office 365 - PowerShell Script to Create a List, Add Fields and Change the Default View all using CSOM
I'm my continued quest to get to grips with the Client Side Object Model (CSOM) in SharePoint...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 02/18/2014
Download language packs for SharePoint 2013
Hi all, I've been working with a customer recently to help them deploy a multi-lingual...
Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 02/14/2014