About the report The below script will generate a detailed report of Content Databases and Site Collections in your Farm, send it in an HTML email to the recipients specified. The Content Database section reports on Size (GB), Database Status, current Site Collection count and Max Site...
UPS Stuck on Starting After installing the May 2018 CU on a SharePoint 2013 Farm the User Profile Synchronization Service (UPS) was stuck on starting. This farm had not had any CUs applied for a year. Starting the Sync service should upgrade the related databases and service as part of the...
This article describes the view constraint you get out of the box with a Document Set in SharePoint. How we can enable multiple views to empower our end users. And how we can set the focus on a Web Part within a page. Switching between views in Document Sets is particularly useful when the...
As with the Service Desk SharePoint System, there are better platforms to have a Shopping Cart on which are free and Open Source, however again, the business required this be set up in SharePoint, which was a challenge. The below Shopping Cart was created using OOTB SharePoint foundation...
SharePoint may not be the best platform to create a Service Desk type system on it as there are free systems out there you can use without much set up (i.e. Spiceworks). However anything can be set up in SharePoint, you just have to put the effort in to make it work. My business requirement...
Although I have disabled the loopback check on other SharePoint farms, in this case I forgot to do it. The problem surfaced in the User Profile Application that worked perfectly fine until I added a picture to my profile and tried to perform a sync. The FIM logs were showing...
This post is to showcase a SharePoint 2013 workflow that I deployed globally to document libraries in a Site Collection. The workflow, that can be run on any document, creates an ‘inwards mail’ process item on a list in the inwards mail site, it then triggers the workflow associated...
The workflow I have deployed/enabled globally is a SharePoint 2013 workflow. SharePoint 2013 workflows are hosted on the Workflow Manager platform. To add the workflow on all Libraries, we need to add a new workflow subscription to the workflow manager using the ID of our Workflow definition....
Use the below if needing to target each Web or List in a Site Collection
SharePoint Designer 2013 has a button to publish SharePoint 2010 reusable workflows globally so that they can be used in any library. This button is greyed out for the SharePoint 2013 workflow platform and so appears to not be supported. We can, however, get a similar result by saving the...