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How to Get the SharePoint Farm Build Version Using PowerShell
This is surprisingly easy to do actually, it’s just 2 simple lines of PowerShell. $farm = Get-SPFarm$farm.BuildVersion The result will be something like this below. Then all you need to do is take that number and you can look at the version numbers over at Todd Klindt’s blog. He always keeps these lists up to …
Read onHow to Determine Your SharePoint 2013 Search Index Location (and Default Search Index Location)
During the setup of your Search service application, if you created your search service using PowerShell, you’re be able to specify a default search index location similar to the lines below. $NewIndexPath = “D:\TOP\SearchIndex” New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent –SearchTopology $newtopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostWF1 -IndexPartition 0 -RootDirectory $NewIndexPath However, believing that you’ve set it properly, and actually being able to …
Read onHow to Filter a SharePoint Date Column by a Specific Value
Adding a date filter is usually a fairly trivial task, and using the [Today] technique is a great way to get dates in and around today ([Today]-1 for yesterday, [Today]+1 for tomorrow, etc.). But what about when you want to filter against a specific date? As it turns out the date format in a filter …
Read onThe Reality of Connecting SharePoint to Oracle using BDC
What? A while back I had a customer ask about connecting SharePoint together with an Oracle data source, and using the BDC service to act as the intermediary in that exchange. So What? The reality is that unfortunately connecting SharePoint to Oracle isn’t as simple as connecting SharePoint to a SQL Server data source. In …
Read onHow to Resolve Failures in the SharePoint Product Config (psconfig) Tool
One night recently I was trying to install a whack load of new SharePoint updates, and I was having major pains trying to get the psconfig tool to run (both the UI tool and the command line version). I finally came up with a series of steps that works for both SharePoint 2010 and 2013. …
Read onOffice 365 – Subscriptions and Housekeeping
Office 365 lets you add and change subscriptions at will (well, pretty much). This is all fine and dandy but you can start to make a real hash of things if you are not careful. As an example, consider the following: This is a customer of ours and their subscription listing is not atypical, many …
Read onSharePoint and the User Interface Video Presentation
Finally I was able to get a copy of the video (with audio) we recorded from my presentation back in March (2015) available publicly. Please see below a link to my presentation on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/126519910 Enjoy!
Read onMicrosoft MVP Virtual Conference
Join me and piles of others in the MVP vConference (online). See below for more details. Here is a high level overview of the event: World-class free online conference that features technical content presented by Americas’ region MVPs that is open to the public More technical content (Level 200, 300, 400), less marketing 5 tracks: …
Read onThanks, MVP’s! 2015 Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference
Long before I became an MVP and long before I even knew what an MVP was I relied on the sage advice of a number of MVP’s to help me solve many vexing IT headaches. People like Susan Bradley (the former SBSDiva), Philip Edler (MPECS) and many others helped me slog through the intricacies of …
Read onOffice 365 – Uncle Rob Explains Exchange Migration Options
I’m going to go out on a limb, here, and try to cut through some of the “fog” that surrounds email migrations to Office 365. While there are all sorts of scenarios based on individual situations, there are really only two ways that migrations happen from on-prem Exchange to O365; 1) use Microsoft tools with …
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