You can lock or unlock SharePoint Site Collections manually but it’s also possible your Site Collection gets locked by SharePoint. A Site Collection backup for example locks the Site Collection during backup and this lock will remain in place if the backup could not...
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PowerShellSet SharePoint cache accounts with PowerShell
The object cache stores properties about items in SharePoint Server 2010/2013. Items in this cache are used by the publishing feature when it renders web pages. The goals of the object cache are to reduce the load on the computer on which SQL Server is running, and to...
Renaming an AD group in SharePoint 2013
This post is part 3 of the guide to move Active Directory Groups in SharePoint 2013. We have gotten the identity claim in part 1 and migrated the AD group in part 2 but now we want to change the name for the SharePoint User Information List. We have seen that the Name...
Migrating AD groups in SharePoint 2013
This post is part 2 of the guide to move Active Directory groups in SharePoint 2013. Microsoft added the PowerShell command move-spuser to migrate a user account in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013. We can leverage this command to migrate AD groups in SharePoint....
Get identity claim for AD groups in SharePoint 2013
This post will show a couple ways to get the identity claim for Active Directory groups that are being used in SharePoint 2013. We are going to need this identity claim for migrating Active Directory groups in SharePoint 2013. This makes it easy to migrate the...
Get all SharePoint database sizes
SharePoint creates 15+ databases during installation and configuration and it’s possible you want to know the size of each database without connecting to the database server or manually checking each size. You can easily get the size of each database using the...
