It is a very common task to truncate log files. You don't notice them and they reach the limit size always not in the appropriate time. And when this moment occurs, it's much better to have a quick solution to decrease the size of log files. But even much better to clean logs automatically on the schedule.
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You cannot move SharePoint wiki library from one SPWeb to another even inside the same site collection through web interface. Also you have no opportunity to save wili library as a template with data. The only solution is to move SharePoint wiki library with PowerShell.
Sometimes you need to make some not common things with data in SharePoint site. Today one girl asked me if I can modify date of creation or modification date of a file in document library. Of course, there can be other cases, for example, you need to save creation date information for data in migration process.
SPWeb object has 2 different properties for work with groups. There are Grops and SiteGroups. Inspite of the fact that they look very similar, they are different.
Once I had to add about 3 thousand users to SharePoint group. Usually when I have to add about 100 users, I use Excel function 'CONCATENATE' to add user login and ";" separator to generate a list of users. And then I manually enter them. But 3 thousand users – it's too much for manual.
You can initialize and fill multidimension hashes (arrays) in powershell this way:
This is an manual how to work with arrays in PowerShell - how to create them, fill and read.
You can initialize array this way:
I'm preparing to install Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 to machines in the VLAN without access to Internet. All the distibutives of SharePoint ask for prerequisites which must be downloaded and installed. Unfortunately, you should get them by yourself. If you have internet access, than it's not a problem. But if you don't have it?
There are at least 2 ways to find physical path of shared folder in Windows (server or client OS – not important) – from command line console or from Snap-In "Shared Folders" in MMC.
Managed metadata is very good and powerful tool in SharePoint. But it has some not very comfortable specialties during migration data from one farm to another, for example, from test environment to productive. You can export your managed metadata from one site and import it into another one. But here's the problem that each termset and term has its own GUID. After you import managed data into the new farm, new GUID’s will be assigned to managed data items.
