Just came across this challenge and I thought I'll document this. Anyway the challenge is that some of the libraries and lists in SharePoint both online and on-premises might get "locked" for deletion, meaning you cannot delete them by any means, this is particullary through for "Record libraries". If you need to remove a "locked" … Continue reading How to delete a “locked” SharePoint Library
Tag: PowerShell
SharePoint Online PowerShell
The following articles list Windows PowerShell cmdlets for SharePoint Online by functionality: Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage and monitor an organization in SharePoint Online Use Windows Powershell cmdlets to manage connections to services in SharePoint Online Use Windows Powershell cmdlets to administer site collections in SharePoint Online Use Windows Powershell cmdlets to upgrade SharePoint … Continue reading SharePoint Online PowerShell
SharePoint 101 – WarmUp PowerShell
Need to warmup your SharePoint sites, try this small script #Get SharePoint PowerShell commands# asnp *sharepoint* #Query webapplications # $webapps = get-spwebapplication -IncludeCentralAdministration foreach ($app in $webapps) { $sites = get-spsite -webapplication $app.url -Limit ALL foreach ($site in $sites) { #write-host $site.Url; foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) { #write-host $web.Url; $r = Invoke-WebRequest -URI $web.Url -UseDefaultCredentials … Continue reading SharePoint 101 – WarmUp PowerShell
Powershell in O365
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SharePoint Server 2013 – Mysite creation stuck on “We’re almost ready”
Recently I encountered a pretty weird situation where mysite creation was stuck on "We're almost ready". This can be caused by many things but for this special case it was related to "user lookup". Naturally you will check that everything is in order: - User profile service is running | OK - Profile sync is running … Continue reading SharePoint Server 2013 – Mysite creation stuck on “We’re almost ready”