Category: SharePoint 2016
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Terminate SharePoint 2013 Workflows with PowerShell
Let’s admit it. Sometimes things just go wrong and you need an easy or straight forward way of cleaning it up and starting over again. An example of this happened to me the other day where I had a bad workflow that went unnoticed and started suspending. By the time it was noticed there were…
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How to Auto-Generate SharePoint Audit Reports: The GUI
A question I get often, especially around solutions where security is a big concern is “how can we see who looked\opened\updated\deleted an item in our document library. Updates, are easy if you have versioning enabled as it tracks each update in the version history, but what if you don’t want versioning enabled or you need…
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Business Connectivity Services – It’s Not Dead… Yet
I had a great time recently presenting at CalSpoug’s SharePoint Saturday. The first session I presented was on SharePoint Business Connectivity Service. I have done this session quite a few times and I always have at least one attendee state they have never heard of BCS before. This session was no different. One of the things I…
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Setting Item Level Security With SharePoint Designer Workflows
Something that I have come across a lot is solutions that require setting item level security after a particular occurrence on the list item (or in some workflow process). Specifically what I wanted to look at was how to do it using SharePoint Groups as opposed to AD users, though I will probably cover that later. …
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Email an External User in a SharePoint 2013 Workflow
I am sure we can all agree that at some point or another we had a need to email a user that did not have an account within our domain via a SharePoint Designer (SPD) 2013 workflow. And while attempting to set it up we were surprised to find out it wouldn’t work. Not only…