Nose to the GrindStone
An IT guy who shares experiences (primarily Microsoft) as he fights through the rapidly increasing learning curve!
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Hi all and Happy New Year!! I hope all of your dreams come true and you are presented with...
Author: Brian Gregor Date: 01/15/2018
PowerAppsPuzzle: @ vs # == Cryptic Error
Hey folks! We are back with another PowerAppsPuzzle this week. This time we are trying to track...
Author: Brian Gregor Date: 10/27/2017
PowerAppsPuzzle: Sorting SelectedItems
Let’s take the scenario where you have a ListBox in a PowerApp that contains sorted information –...
Author: Brian Gregor Date: 10/04/2017
Friday Thought of the Week: Believe in Yourself
This is over a year old, but it was the first time I’d seen it… it’s a whimsical interview with...
Author: Brian Gregor Date: 03/24/2017
Implementing Managed Tabbed Navigation with SharePoint - Part 1
Recently, I changed roles and have more opportunity to work in areas that have more of a development...
Author: Brian Gregor Date: 02/13/2017
When using SharePoint, don't use $
Hey folks! I ran into an interesting issue while onsite with a customer the other week and I thought...
Author: Brian Gregor Date: 01/24/2017
Help! I need QuickEdit!!
Hi all! My latest scripting effort comes as a result of the 2010 –> 2013 migration from one of...
Author: Brian Gregor Date: 06/29/2016
Changing the Service Bus RunAs Account Password Changes VSS Credentials
Since I’ve been working in the area of Workflow Manager (WFM) as it relates to SharePoint and since...
Author: Brian Gregor Date: 05/21/2016
Test-SPContentDatabase Reports Valid Web Parts as ‘Missing’
While working on a migration for a customer we were combing through the results of...
Author: Brian Gregor Date: 05/19/2016
New phase of life/career!
I’m excited to start a new phase of my career at Microsoft and hopefully continue posting...
Author: Brian Gregor Date: 03/11/2016
Workflow Manager 1.0 Refresh Disaster Recovery (further) Explained
With the release of SharePoint 2013, Microsoft released a new platform for workflows called Workflow...
Author: BrianGre Date: 02/24/2016
Configuring UserPhotoExpiration for User Profile Photo Sync between Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013
Following on my previous post about different user profile photo options for SharePoint 2013, I...
Author: Brian Gregor Date: 07/20/2015
SharePoint 2013 Shredded Storage vs. RBS
THIS IS A REPOST It’s important to note that sometimes information needs to be re-posted.. This...
Author: BrianGre Date: 02/19/2015
Simplifying?? Provider Hosted Apps with SharePoint 2013–Part 1 of X?
From my own experience and most everyone I’ve talked with, if you’ve done anything with SP2013...
Author: BrianGre Date: 01/17/2015
Provided User Name was not Encoded as a Claim
So today's lesson is quite bizarre.. and I'm not sure where exactly the problem lies just yet. I...
Author: BrianGre Date: 01/08/2015
401 – Unauthorized Response to Register-SPWorkflowService
My previous post about configuring the Workflow Manager using least privilege is a great start;...
Author: BrianGre Date: 12/30/2014
HowTo Get the Raw LDAP Query from SharePoint’s User Profile Import
**WARNING: This article discusses modifications to default settings for your SharePoint...
Author: BrianGre Date: 10/21/2014
SELECT Permission Denied When Consuming User Profile Service Application
Updated to include the officially supported method While setting up a repro scenario a month or...
Author: BrianGre Date: 04/02/2014
Export-SPWeb Syntax Changes Between Root Site and Sub Sites
Working on a somewhat related issue today and needed to test something with Export-SPWeb. We were...
Author: BrianGre Date: 03/18/2014
Options for SharePoint User Profile Properties and Photos
As I’ve mentioned, most of these blogs are for my own benefit. My memory isn’t as good...
Author: BrianGre Date: 03/11/2014
SharePoint 2013 and 404 on Every Site
In my lab environment the other day I started receiving a 404 from all of my SharePoint sites. So...
Author: BrianGre Date: 02/05/2014
Getting a Lync Attendee List When Lync Web Access is the Client
When holding Lync meetings with customers who cannot join our meetings through the Lync client they...
Author: BrianGre Date: 01/31/2014
Least Privilege Remote Configuration of Search for SharePoint Server 2013
My customer was going through the process of creating scripts to configure their latest SharePoint...
Author: BrianGre Date: 01/29/2014
Expired Sessions are not being Deleted from the ASP.NET Session State Database
UPDATE Based on comments from readers I had to revisit this topic and admittedly I was confusing...
Author: BrianGre Date: 09/09/2013
Least Privilege Configuration for Workflow Manager with SharePoint 2013
I went about setting up Workflow Manager with SharePoint 2013 and found that there were plenty of...
Author: BrianGre Date: 02/20/2013
SP2013 State Service Required for Search
I had configured my farm without using the wizard – like any good SharePoint Administrator should...
Author: BrianGre Date: 12/28/2012
SP2013 Newsfeed/ActivityFeed … experience learned
One thing I continually re-learn in this business is that you cannot be too careful or too simple...
Author: BrianGre Date: 11/09/2012
SharePoint 2013 and the chrome control
I’ve been going through the new features in SharePoint 2013 – as most of us have been – and the...
Author: BrianGre Date: 11/09/2012
logparser for ULS reference post
Most of the time I try to write posts of issues that I’ve encountered or things that might...
Author: BrianGre Date: 07/02/2012
SSRS 2012 Cannot Create Managed Account
Synopsis: When preparing to perform an in-place upgrade of SSRS 2008 R2 SP1 (SharePoint Integrated...
Author: BrianGre Date: 05/14/2012
Why Foundation when you can Search?
I was helping to plan a migration for one of my customers from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to...
Author: BrianGre Date: 03/19/2012
Blob Size Never Reduces When Using RBS with SharePoint 2010
So last week I had a customer let me know that after configuring RBS (remote blob storage) with...
Author: BrianGre Date: 02/13/2012
Be Wary of Powershell Tab Complete!!
This post is just a quick warning to be wary – or at least aware of – the tab complete functionality...
Author: BrianGre Date: 01/20/2012
Broken trust after configuring ADFS v2 and a single DC
This is not a critical issue by any means as I doubt this will occur in a real production...
Author: BrianGre Date: 01/20/2012
Instead of the Default View 'All Site Content' links to List Settings
In Windows SharePoint Service v3 (WSSv3) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), there...
Author: BrianGre Date: 12/02/2011
"Drives are running out of free space"...but who cares?
SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 introduced a pretty cool new feature of...
Author: BrianGre Date: 12/01/2011
URLScan intereferes with WebDav
This is by no means an all-encompassing blog entry about trouble-shooting WebDav with SharePoint,...
Author: BrianGre Date: 11/17/2011
SharePoint Server 2010 and incoming email
I received a call from a customer last week stating that they were able to configure incoming email...
Author: BrianGre Date: 03/14/2011
FAST Search for SharePoint Configuration Failure
One of my good friends, Cory Roberts, pinged me the other day with a problem concerning...
Author: BrianGre Date: 02/24/2011
PowerShell caching leads to head-banging
I was attempting to repro a customer issue today and was growing more and more frustrated by the...
Author: BrianGre Date: 02/17/2011