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A customer ran into this issue a while back a couple of times and I wanted to document it for others. The customer was using their SharePoint environment normally throughout the day when all of a sudden their Office Web Apps stopped working. As it turns out, the ultimate problem ended up being related to …

I was working with a client recently and after running some OS updates on their SharePoint servers, I tried to run the Product Config wizard (PSconfig).   The command I was running was as follows. PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures   Unfortunately, at one point (later in the sequence …

If you’ve deleted a site collection (anytime as of or after SP1 in SharePoint 2010 – note prior to 2010 SP1, you’re out of luck), and you want to recover the site collection, it’s actually quite simple. Note that in Office 365 simply go into the admin interface for SharePoint, in the section where you …

The following blog post saved our farm.  Well, maybe not quite that dramatic, but it certainly saved me a lot of time.  Essentially, the only thing I had to do was run the suggested PowerShell, and everything worked perfectly afterwards. “Try running the command Get-SPProduct –local on the server that says it’s missing the required …

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The following PowerShell can be used to take a subset of files from a document library in SharePoint and output them to the file system.  Note, this will need to be executed on the SharePoint server. [code language=”PowerShell”] $spweb = get-spweb -identity "http://yourdomain/yourweb" # Use the "pretty name" of your library below $list = $spweb.lists["Your …

The following is a great post by Tobias Zimmergren about how to change the text in the upper left of the 2013 branding very easily via PowerShell. http://zimmergren.net/technical/sp-2013-tip-change-the-sharepoint-text-in-the-top-left-corner Thanks Tobias, I’ve used this several times (including in our own Portal – seen below).  [code language=”powershell”] $webApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://[your SharePoint web application] $webApp.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml = "Awesome …

I was recently asked to remove a Quick Launch item in all quick launch menus across an entire web application.  The following PowerShell will iterate over all webs in all sites in a web application searching for the menu item labelled “BAD Quick Launch Item” and will delete that node from each location. $FindString = …

I was recently asked to enable and disable certain features across an entire farm that were activated by virtue of having upgraded to the SharePoint enterprise license.  The key is that to do this effectively, I wrote some PowerShell, and I needed the Feature ID.  The table of features with their IDs is below. Short …