Microsoft Teams is creating a buzz right now, and this where you can manage all your conversations, files, and tools in one team workspace, with instant access to SharePoint, OneNote, PowerBI, and Planner. You can also create and edit documents right in the app! And as a good IT Pro, we want to automate things… So here comes PowerShell for…
In this blog post, we will put ourselves in the Power User’s shoes, and learn how to create calculated columns for a list in SharePoint. This is also applicable to SharePoint Online, only a different interface (at the time of writing: Dec. 2017) If you prefer to watch videos, you can browse my YouTube channel or specifically how to create…
When you think about it, having users licensed in Office 365, while they can’t login, it’s not a very good use of money. Maybe you need to keep the license for the mailbox/data not to go away, or maybe the user left the company and you blocked his/her access for security reasons (change the password for better security) while you…
In a previous blog post, I was using the Copy-SPSite cmdlet to duplicate a Site Collection to another content database, within the same Web Application. Today’s post will be about backing up a Site Collection & restoring it into another Web Application by using PowerShell. Minimum requirements: Permissions to run PowerShell cmdlets Web Applications (source & target) Site Collection to…
Managed paths in SharePoint Server are a way to differentiate your Site Collections with a chosen URL, and are created at the Web Application level. Those can be created via the SharePoint Central Admin (CA), but this blog post will focus on using PowerShell. You can create 2 types of managed paths: Explicit (create a single site collection with the specified…
It’s pretty common in the SharePoint world to move Site Collection(s) from one database to another. But there may also be some scenarios where you need to copy a Site Collection (SC) from one content database (CDB) to another. In this blog post, we will focus on that by using the Copy-SPSite cmdlet. If you prefer to watch a video,…
The creation of Site Collections in SharePoint Online (SPO) are a little bit different than SharePoint Server. There’s no access to SharePoint Central Admin (CA), nor to the Web Applications. However, the SPO interface is pretty straight forward for creating Site Collections (at the time of writing: Dec. 2017). Minimum requirements: SharePoint Online Admin credentials Site Collection Admin credentials (for…
Site Collections are “containers” in the middle of a Web Application & subsites. As an example, they are usually created to represent a Business Unit (bigger), and you create subsites for the departments (smaller). From a SharePoint perspective, it’s important to note that: a Site Collection can only reside in one content database. You cannot split the Site Collection into…
There are multiple ways to break permissions inheritance in SharePoint. You can do it while creating the subsite, or after the site has been created. But you want to be careful when assigning different permissions for different sites. This can become very messy! In this blog, we will focus on breaking inheritance after the site has been created. For those…
In case you need to delete a SharePoint site (and its entire content), the process is pretty straight forward. The same applies for SharePoint 2013/2016 and SharePoint Online (at the time of writing: Dec. 2017) Assuming you have the correct permissions to do so, simply follow these steps: Log into the SharePoint site you wish to delete On the top…