SharePains by Microsoft MVP Pieter Veenstra
Microsoft 365, Power Platform, SharePoint, Teams, Azure and Dynamics
All posts about PowerShell
Recently I wrote a PowerShell script to collect all Critical, Unexpected and Monitorable messages in the ULS logs. SharePoint ULS logs With this script I’m creating an item in a…
To get AD Group Members from a SharePoint group can be quite a task. In my SharePoint environment I like to use the security model where each SharePoint Group contains…
Failed workflows Using the SharePoint 2010 workflow engine, I have a list with many list items. Some of my workflows have failed and many workflows are showing an error status.…
Today I tried to start a workflow using PowerShell and I got this annoying error: Exception calling “StartWorkflow” with “4” argument(s): “” At C:\Users\spsetup\Downloads\StartDocumentLocksWF.ps1:38 char:9 + $wf = $wfm.Startworkflow($item,$association, $data,$true)…
Today I had an issue where a full crawl would take forever. I enabled continuous crawls after I first thought of adding an extra Search Server and to split Query and…
Update an External Data field using PowerShell The situation is as follows. I have created an external list (using BDC/BCS in SharePoint 2013). My external list is called “External Users”…
I created an external content type in SharePoint 2013 and now I’m trying to read the data from my external list using PowerShell. I am connecting to a SQL Server Database…
I tried to get to the my Taxonomy session through the client object model. Well if you Bing (I actually used google. But I’m Microsoft focussed so I thought I better…
Today I have a customer with users all over the world. Initially the time for everybody was the server time but now they needed to update the time zone. Update…