SPWakeUp version 1.3.0 has been released. This version includes the ability to run on a non-SharePoint server to wake arbitrary URLs. Use the ‘-NotASharePointServer’ command line parameter to specify that SPWakeUp should not check for the presence of SharePoint and should not attempt to evaluate a list of web …

Collaboration has been and will continue to be one of the important business advantages that the Cloud can deliver to an organisation. Collaboration can be thought of as not just connecting people to one another and improving their day to day working practices, but also enabling and encouraging collaboration between …

SPWakeUp version 1.2.0 has been released. This version includes the ability to import a list of additional URLs to be woken from a file instead of providing a series of URLs to be included individually on the command line. Use the ‘-IncludeFile:’ command line parameter to specify the full path to the file containing …

I’ve implemented something that I’ve wanted to for a long time on SPWakeUp: The ability to wake additional URLs. Version 1.1.0 allows the use of the ‘-Include':’ command line parameter to specify additional URLs that will be woken once the detected site collections and subsites have been traversed.

We use the SharePoint Online Content Type Hub extensively as the central location to create, manage and distribute content types throughout our SharePoint Online tenant. We recently saw an issue with the distribution of one of the content types defined in the Content Type Hub which had a specific PowerPoint template …

Since I started working with on-premises SharePoint instances, one of the solutions that I’ve used to wake up (pre-compile) the site collections and sub-sites contained within the web applications hosted by the farm is SPWakeUp. This was originally a solution hosted on CodePlex and provided binaries for SharePoint …

Design of SharePoint content Types for SharePoint, and in particular SharePoint Online is very important. Care must be taken to ensure that the design is appropriate for the environment as changes made later can impose significant management overheads. In particular, if a Content Type is put to use (I.e. is assigned to …

I was recently performing a SharePoint 2013 to 2016 farm upgrade and noticed an interesting issue when performing tests on content databases to be migrated to the new system. As part of the migration of a content database, it’s usual to perform a ‘Test-SPContentDatabase’ operation against each database before attaching …

I recently came across an issue relating to crawling people information in SharePoint and the use of crawl rules to exclude certain content. The issue revolved around a requirement to exclude content contained within peoples’ MySites, but include user profile information so that people searches could still be …

If you use SharePoint, you’ll know that some mechanism to wake up the hosted sites after the application pools are recycled overnight is very helpful (essential even) for the end user experience. I’ve compiled a version of SPWakeUp for SharePoint 2016, which can be downloaded from …