FromTheField
Real world experiences of SharePoint engineers from Microsoft UK
Creating a Large Number of Users in AD for testing
I recently had to troubleshoot an issue with the User Profile Service Application and needed to...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 01/21/2014
Getting Started with Office 365 and the Client Side Object Model - CSOM
SharePoint 2013 included some huge improvements to the Client Side Object Model, as more and more of...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 10/25/2013
The Magically Disappearing "Destination Folder" Option
I recently investigated an interesting issue for a customer. As you may know, when uploading a...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 10/25/2013
Invalid field name {17ca3a22-fdfe-46eb-99b5-9646baed3f16}
Not the most descriptive title but basically summarises the issue. A customer contacted me as they...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 09/11/2013
Identifying Sites using the Publishing Feature
Below is a simple script that iterates through all Site Collections in all Web Applications within a...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 09/10/2013
Working with SharePoint list data - OData, REST and JavaScript
Working with SharePoint list data using OData, REST and JavaScript Recently I’ve been doing a fair...
Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 09/05/2013
The Magically Disappearing Sub-Site!
Working with a customer recently and a sub-site had magically disappeared in their SharePoint 2010...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 08/28/2013
Create a Site Structure using PowerShell
Updated to reflect feedback from Wes MacDonald -...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 08/22/2013
Determine Site Template
Another day, another PowerShell script! This time a script that will return details about the Site...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 08/20/2013
Using PowerShell to upload a scripts output to SharePoint
I often get asked to help customers write PowerShell scripts to aid with the reporting and...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 08/16/2013
Remove SharePoint 2007 Top Navigation using PowerShell.
Following on from Steve's great post yesterday about creating site Navigation from CSV it got me...
Author: Andy Day [MSFT] Date: 08/13/2013
List View Lookup Threshold
I was recently delivering a SharePoint Risk Assessment on a customers SharePoint 2010 environment,...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 08/13/2013
Build site navigation from CSV file
One of our customers needed some help to build out navigation from a .csv file in their Microsoft...
Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 08/12/2013
Automating Test-SPContentDatabase
The SharePoint Health Analyzer included in SharePoint 2010/2013 has a rule named "Missing server...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 07/29/2013
Audit settings in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
As you will have seen in some of our other blog entries here, we often get asked to assist our...
Author: Steve Jeffery Date: 07/25/2013
Windows PowerShell Script to Output Site Collection Information
Windows PowerShell is a fantastic tool; SharePoint 2010 has literally hundreds of different...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 07/25/2013
Current Storage Used Figure is Incorrect for a Site Collection
MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 keep a record of the total storage consumed by each Site collection;...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 07/25/2013
Community Sites - Where are my analytics reports!
Community Sites are a new type of site introduced in SharePoint 2013, if you are unfamiliar the...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 07/25/2013
Using PowerShell to Measure Page Download Time
I was recently working with a customer that reported some performance issues in their SharePoint...
Author: Brendan Griffin Date: 07/22/2013