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This Microsoft article provides guidance and analysis regarding the recently published vulnerabilities in the OpenMetadata platform. These vulnerabilities could potentially be used to access Kubernetes workloads and leverage them for cryptomining activity. Read the full article here….
Read articleI have been using Delve for a while now, and one thing has struck me as odd, and that is the image used as the thumbnail and how it was being chosen. As an example I was writing a document in Word and saved it to my OneDrive. Initially it displayed one image, however when… Continue Reading →
Read articleI have been having lots of discussions with my clients recently regarding whether to customise SharePoint 2013, especially SharePoint online and I thought I would document some of my thoughts in regards to this scenario. My thoughts on this subject have evolved over the last year or so. Having spent some time working directly for… Continue Reading →
Read articleThe OneDrive for Business Update KB2889866 has been pulled due to issues relating to Sync. It is replaced by KB2889931. Please see http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/arch… for more details.
Read articleI came across the below error when trying to create a new web application via PowerShell against a 2013 farm. “Specified value is not supported for the domainname parameter error when creating web apps” This appears to have been caused by the machine loosing connectivity to the domain so even though my server was domain… Continue Reading →
Read articleBy default deleting a site collection in Office 365 just moves the site collection to the recycle bin for 30 days, but there is not an option in the admin screen to remove it from the recycle bin. This is fine, unless you want to use the same url for a new site collection. In… Continue Reading →
Read articleAs of the 27th February existing Office 365 tenants are able to self-upgrade their sites to the updated wave 15 version of SharePoint online. Sites can be upgraded on an individual basis using the UI, but if you want to upgrade multiple sites as part of a process it is (in my opinion) easier to… Continue Reading →
Read articleThe following PowerShell can be used to create a publishing page and assign a page layout. #Get SPWeb $spWeb = Get-SPWeb(“Site URL”); #Get Publishing Web $pubWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($spWeb) #Finds the appropriate page layout $pl = $pubWeb.GetAvailablePageLayouts() | Where { $_.Name -eq “Page Layout Name”} $pages = $pubWeb.GetPublishingPages(); #Create the page; $page = $pages.Add(“Page Name”, $pl)… Continue Reading →
Read articleThe following PowerShell can be used to update a terms sets submission policy to open or closed. #Connect to Central Admin $Session = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.TaxonomySession(“Central Admin URL”) #Connect to Managed Metadata Service $Store = $Session.TermStores[“Managed Metadata Service Name”] #Get the group $Group = $Store.Groups[“Group Name”]; #Get the Term Set $TermSet = $Group.TermSets[“Term Set Name”]; #Update… Continue Reading →
Read articleI had just completed a PowerShell scripted deployment of a SharePoint farm and was just performing the final checks when I noticed the following error in the crawl logs. “The filtering process has been terminated” This turned out that because in the PowerShell script I had specified that the SharePoint installation location should be different to… Continue Reading →
Read articleI came across the following error in the crawl logs of a SharePoint 2013 instance. “The content processing pipeline failed to process the item. ( Object reference not set to an instance of an object. )” In my case this turned out to be because I had deleted the managed metadata service that had been… Continue Reading →
Read articleThe following script will iterate through all the user profiles and return the account name. Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell; #Load SharePoint User Profile assemblies [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.SharePoint”) [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles”) #Get Context $serviceContext = Get-SPServiceContext -Site “[Site Name]” #Instantiate User Profile Manager $userProfileConfigManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($serviceContext); #Get All User Profiles $profiles = $userProfileConfigManager.GetEnumerator(); #Loop through all user profiles and display account name… Continue Reading →
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