We are using the default AD import for an environment to crawl user profiles. The customer requested the ability to exclude some users from the search results. This can be done by changing the search web part to exclude these users or by changing the user profile...
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SharePointSorry, something went wrong while browsing to the Central Administration: Parameter name: encodedValue
We encountered the "Sorry, something went wrong" while browsing to the Central Administration of a SharePoint 2013 environment. We analyzed the logs using the ULSViewer and found the following errors referenced by the correlation ID. Application error when access /,...
Grant user account Farm Administrator permissions with PowerShell
We had an "unexpected" issue at a customer which I troubleshooted. I was unable to connect to the Central Administration and I tried to add my account to the Farm Administrators group using PowerShell as a possible solution. The issue occurred on a SharePoint 2013...
Using on-premises data gateway with SharePoint 2019 and Microsoft Flow
I wanted to create a working environment with the on-premises data gateway in combination with SharePoint 2019. The scenario I configured is a simple one as it only sends a mail when a new item has been added to a library in my SharePoint 2019 farm. This scenario...
Create SharePoint service accounts with PowerShell
There are a few of these scripts around to create SharePoint service accounts with PowerShell but I decided to create a new one as SharePoint 2019 is coming with a bit more functionality and error handling. A good blog about the different service accounts needed can...
Hide / Disable Export to Spreadsheet
I got a question from a colleague where the customer has added an out of the box survey in SharePoint and granted the required users permissions to respond. The scenario has been recreated on my environment and the issue is that visitors/members can read other...