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 [...]
Introduction If you want to find and remove SharePoint user accounts, this can either be a trivial task or a rather cumbersome endeavor. If your portal only has one site collection and a small number of users, the GUI is probably the easiest method. However, if your portal contains multiple site collections and thousands of [...]
Overview This article discusses ways to modify list permissions, such as breaking list inheritance, resetting inheritance, resetting list item permission inheritance and removing all list permissions with PowerShell. Break Inheritance Let’s say you create a shiny new custom list without changing any of the defaults. Later, you realize that you wanted unique permissions on the [...]
Introduction If you work in a large organization with multiple domains and/or high turnover, you may run into issues where duplicate user accounts start stacking up in your SharePoint User Information List. Examples Let's say Joe Dirt works at your company and his Active Directory account is corp\joe.dirt. When Joe Dirt accesses the portal for [...]
When attempting to add a summary links web part, you may receive the following 0x80070002 error: Unable to add selected web part(s). Could not load XSL file. The system cannot find the file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070002) There are a few possible solutions to this problem. Let's start with the simplest! NOTE: The information [...]
CrashOnAuditFail Defined The purpose of the CrashonAuditFail registry key is to configure a server so that end users are not permitted access to the computer when the security logs reach the configured size limit. Disallowing access to the computer ensures that audit information that would otherwise be logged is not missed. The system also uses [...]
Overview In a security conscious environment, it may be necessary or mandated to archive the Windows security event log. By default the security log is configured to overwrite events as needed. Here is a screenshot of typical security event log settings: Event Log Settings To check or modify your security event log settings, launch Event Viewer. [...]
Once a user logs onto SharePoint or is granted access to a site collection, their information is stored in the site collection user information list. You can view the list by accessing site_collection_url/_catalogs/users. Unfortunately, if the user’s information is updated in Active Directory the changes are NOT updated in SharePoint. Update Single User With Active Directory [...]
Introduction There are lots of resources available online that discuss SharePoint database mirroring. In this article I will mention a few of these resources, toss in my own personal experience and leave you with a few T-SQL scripts that may prove useful in your mirroring efforts. Resources Here are two TechNet articles that I found useful [...]