Had a bit of a scare during a maintenance window. Ran some updates on our SharePoint farm and after that one of the sites wasn’t coming up. Kept getting a 503 error. When I checked the event log, I found this error message: An exception occurred when trying to issue security token: The HTTP service… Continue reading Security Token Service
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SharePoint Documents are all checked out
I wanted to write a PowerShell script to check all the documents back in that had been checked out. Turns out that is not as straight forward as I had hoped. First search came up with this: Office Discarding Check Out Using PowerShell Then when I tried to run the command (from the server console,… Continue reading SharePoint Documents are all checked out
SharePoint Recycle Bin
I mentioned earlier (here) that we are clearing some old data out of a SharePoint site. Aside from the various client side issues with trying to do that, you also have to figure out how to clean up SharePoint. SharePoint has a multi-tier Recycle Bin. There is a pretty good article about how it works… Continue reading SharePoint Recycle Bin
Moving data out of SharePoint
We have a SharePoint site that we used to store some data. It was used at remote locations to be able to “map a drive” and interact with data. There is some old data in the site now, and we needed to move it off. I hadn’t messed with it in a while and forgot… Continue reading Moving data out of SharePoint
Restoring Deleted Items in SharePoint
We are using SharePoint Document Libraries for some projects now. The users are mapping the Document Library as a mapped drive. Users are also creating and deleting files. For the Projects site, the recycle bin settings are default: Items in the Recycle Bin remain there until you decide to permanently delete them from your Web… Continue reading Restoring Deleted Items in SharePoint