SPWakeUp (SPWakeUp3) v1.3.0 Released
Andy Dawson Feb 5, 2021 · 1 min read · Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Visual Studio Visual Studio ·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 …
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Read MoreSPWakeUp (SPWakeUp3) v1.2.0 Released
Andy Dawson Nov 22, 2020 · 1 min read · SharePoint SharePoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Visual Studio Visual Studio ·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 …
Read MoreSPWakeUp (SPWakeUp3) v1.1.0 Released
Andy Dawson Oct 27, 2020 · 1 min read · SharePoint SharePoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Visual Studio Visual Studio ·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.
Read MoreSharePoint Online Content Type Hub Publishing Issues
Andy Dawson Oct 22, 2020 · 3 min read · Content Type Hub Content Type Hub Content Types Content Types PowerShell PowerShell SharePoint SharePoint Sharepoint Sharepoint ·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 …
Read MoreSPWakeUp (SPWakeUp3)–Wake Up On-Premises SharePoint and WSS Instances
Andy Dawson Oct 21, 2020 · 1 min read · SharePoint SharePoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Visual Studio Visual Studio ·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 …
Read More- 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 …
Read More Test-SPContentDatabase False Positive
Andy Dawson May 19, 2017 · 3 min read · PowerShell PowerShell Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint SQL Server SQL Server Upgrade Upgrade ·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 …
Read MoreSharePoint Crawl Rules Appears to Ignore Some URL Protocols
Andy Dawson Jul 4, 2016 · 2 min read · SharePoint SharePoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint Sharepoint ·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 …
Read MoreSPWakeUp for SharePoint 2016
Andy Dawson Apr 9, 2016 · 1 min read · .NET Framework .NET Framework SharePoint SharePoint Sharepoint Sharepoint ·