The most common examples for metadata are “data about data“, or “info about info“. And that’s obviously true 🙂 In a way, you give more info on the data you have. I see that as some kind of “drill down a bit further” in the information. In SharePoint words, we are talking about taxonomy and folksonomy. For more information please…
One thing that’s frustrating when you do testing, or studying with SharePoint, is having to enter your credentials every time you hit a Web Application… Well, that’s actually coming from a security feature introduced wayyyyy back in Windows Server. And as it says, it’s a security feature, and it’s called LoopBackCheck. Meaning what? Meaning you can disable this feature in…
The Usage and Health Data Collection Service Application might be “quiet”, but don’t be fooled, it is a very important for your SharePoint Farm. Once created and configured, you can access reports and logs, to make sure your SharePoint environment is healthy, and setup for optimal performance. The Usage and Health Data Collection service application cannot be created directly from…
The State Service Application is used to store the status of some of the SharePoint components. This service application can be created via SharePoint Central Admin when running the Configuration Wizard, but you’ll end up having the GUID alongside the database name, and that’s not nice! With only a few PowerShell cmdlets, you can create the State Service Application, and…
PowerShell makes it easy to backup your SharePoint farm. And combined with the Task Scheduler, it makes you even more productive! In today’s blog post, we’ll use PowerShell to create the SharePoint Farm backup scripts, and automate them with the Task Scheduler. We’ll create 2x backup scripts: Full backup > will run weekly Differential backup > will run daily The…
For the first post of the year, we’ll learn how to assign only specific services (ServicePlan) to users in Office 365, and for efficiency as always, we’ll use PowerShell to do so! 🙂 You may have some O365 users in your organisation where, you only wish to give them access to Exchange Online, or SharePoint Online, and so on. Be…
If you’re like me and like to have “clean” names for your SharePoint databases, then you’d want to rename the Admin Content database in your SharePoint Server 2016 if you haven’t used a scripted installation. The first time I installed SP2016 and used my script for SP2013 to rename the Admin Content database, I was faced with a strange red…
Today, we’ll look at creating documents libraries & folders, then upload documents into those folders using PowerShell PnP. For more info about the Practices & Patterns (PnP), refer to the official documentation, and/or download the modules from hard workers in GitHub – SharePoint PowerShell PnP. Connect to the SPO Site Collection First things first, let’s connect to the SharePoint…
This is no secret that Search is very important in SharePoint. Creating a thesaurus file, and uploading it to SharePoint Server, will provide synonyms results to users when they perform a search. This is not applicable to SharePoint Online (at the time of writing: Dec. 2017). Let’s get started! Minimum requirements: Search Service Application created Search Service Application Admin…
The way you use PowerShell for SharePoint Online (SPO) is a bit different than with SharePoint Server. You don’t have access to the SPO servers, and you have way less cmdlets available compared to SharePoint Server. But thanks to very nice people out there, we can now use SharePoint PnP (Patterns & Practices) to create or retrieve things easily. For…
