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Bulk delete items from SharePoint Document Library with Powershell – with filters

June 26, 2019 Matt Thornton 0

I recently posted some Powershell for bulk / batch emptying a SharePoint document library (http://www.matt-thornton.net/tech/sharepoint/bulk-delete-items-and-folders-from-sharepoint-document-library-using-powershell) which works nicely. (As long as you remember that the Batch Delete XML syntax is incredibly fiddly and sensitive! Case is important and backticks are required to escape stuff.) Anyway; it works great to empty […]

Troubleshooting Word Automation Services in SharePoint

June 19, 2019 Matt Thornton 0

Continuing the theme of obscure SharePoint issues; this one on a new topic – Word Automation Services. A client has a new requirement to automate some documents and using Word templates and converting them to PDF all from a Nintex workflow would be… nifty. So away we go. In Word, […]

Sharepoint – Open .eml files in Outlook

January 10, 2019 Matt Thornton 0

If you use email enabled document libraries or indeed any other method of storing email messages (commonly created in Exchange / Outlook) in Sharepoint document libraries then they are more than likely stored in .eml format (that first appeared in Outlook Express) as opposed to the more modern .msg format. […]

Installing SharePoint in standalone / single server mode

October 12, 2018 Matt Thornton 0

In SharePoint 2016, it’s no longer possible to use PSConfig / SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard to provision a single server SharePoint Farm. You’re likely doing this because you just want a single dev environment to… do some stuff. Strangely (more like typically) Microsoft don’t make this particularly easy for you. […]

Sharepoint 2010 – Access denied… even for farm admins

September 14, 2018 Matt Thornton 0

If you’re getting Access Denied for all users even after configured the Super User and Super Reader cache accounts… I recently deployed a new site collection into a new content database. As soon as I tried to hit it, I got unexpected errors. I checked the logs which revealed the […]

Sharepoint 2010 SP2 installation – variety of issues

September 13, 2018 Matt Thornton 0

I know. Sharepoint 2010. It’s not even. I mean. Just. Look let’s skip past any discussion about why this is happening in 2018, and just cover the issues, OK? So. You’re installing SP2 on a Sharepoint 2010 Farm. This may well apply to any CU in fact. And it possibly […]

Bulk delete items and folders from Sharepoint document library using Powershell

August 10, 2018 Matt Thornton 1

I’ll cut to the chase. A lot has been written about how to handle large lists and how to handle bulk deleting things. To summarise: getting all items and iterating one by one is *not* the way to do it. The right way to do it is to use the […]