Have you ever needed to run a workflow against all items in a SharePoint list? If so, you know that using the web interface to do this is a slow tedious process. You can use the following script to programmatically run a workflow against every item in a list: [crayon-5f95515d0630b039269868/]
Introduction Let's face it, logs are everywhere. It seems like every piece of software creates log files these days. Unfortunately, not every piece of software cleans up after itself or allows setting limits on the amount of logging to create and retain. This can bring down a system if log file storage is not kept [...]
Introduction You may come into work one day and find that your workflows are failing. Examining the workflow details will reveal "Failed On Start" errors. Most likely this is due to a patch. The fix for the patch is to manually add several lines to the web.config file of your SharePoint web application servers. In [...]
Sometimes you just need to rebuild SharePoint 2010 search. It happens. Life happens. SharePoint 2010 Search poops the bed. This article will discuss how to remove a SharePoint 2010 search service application and clean up leftover search components. Search Service Application Removal So the first thing we need to do is remove the search service [...]
This article discusses how to configure an ESXi 6.7 host to synchronize time with an upstream NTP server and how to verify that it's actually working. NTP Configuration The first step is to configure time synchronization on the ESXi host(s). This can be done using the VMware Host Client, the vSphere Web Client or the [...]
If you would like to rename a service application or it's proxy, PowerShell can get it done! Let's say the Managed Metadata service is named "Managed Metadata" and the associated proxy is also named "Managed Metadata". To change the service name to "Managed Metadata Service" and the proxy name to "Managed Metadata Service Proxy", the [...]
Would you like to know how many workflows are in a given site collection? How many of those workflows are currently running? How many old versions of workflows you have laying around? The following PowerShell script will crawl a site collection and enumerate all lists/libraries for workflow associations and report back useful information such as [...]
Overview A daily Workflow Auto Cleanup job runs to permanently delete workflow instances and related task entries that still exist 60 days after a workflow is completed or canceled. Workflow history items themselves are not deleted, but the entry point to view them on the status page for a particular instance of a workflow will [...]
Introduction You may be asking yourself, what exactly are SharePoint role assignments?! This article will discuss the following role assignment topics: Definition Growth SharePoint Impact Discovery Maintenance Definition A role assignment is the relationship between role definitions, users and groups, and scopes. Let's break that down a little further! Role Definition Role definition is synonymous [...]
Introduction I was doing some site cleanup today and ended up with around 15,000 items in a site collection recycle bin. I started cleaning them out using the GUI. It was SLOW going. There is no way to "Delete All" for the second stage bin. Rather, you have to delete items from the second stage [...]