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Reporting in Office 365 – Atlanta SharePoint & Office 365 User Group

Ben SteginkJuly 9, 2017office365, Speaking0 Comments

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Every company, no matter what the industry, more than likely requires reporting about something in Office 365. If you want to learn more, I will be speaking at Atlanta SharePoint & Office 365 User Group on Monday, July 17, 2017, in Alpharetta, GA. During this session, we will look at what reporting is immediately available in Office 365 and extending … Read More

Azure AD PowerShell Module Issue

Ben SteginkJune 23, 2017powershell, SharePoint Online0 Comments

Just yesterday I ran into a really weird issue with, what turned out to be, the Azure AD PowerShell Module when credentials save in a variable and Azure AD cmdlets were combined with the SharePoint Dev PnP cmdlets. This same issue occurs both in an Azure Runbook (working on a future blog post and where I first discovered the issue) … Read More

A recent Office 365 update and it’s effect on ADFS and CSOM

Ben SteginkApril 11, 2017office365, powershell3 Comments

I have yet to get a confirmation from Microsoft that this was the result of an update. But considering it worked a week ago (the week of April 3, 2017), and doesn’t work this week (April 10, 2017) I can only assume that’s what it was. They also had several users with issues logging into Office 365 via ADFS starting … Read More

SharePoint 2016 New-SPConfigurationDatabase: The Missing Documentation

Ben SteginkOctober 15, 2016powershell, SharePoint 20161 Comment

If you’ve tried to configure SharePoint 2016 with PowerShell, you need to use the New-SPConfigurationDatabase cmdlet. If you look at the PowerShell cmdlet index here https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff678226.aspx You’ll find the cmdlet listed there, but it isn’t indicated as being to new to SharePoint 2016. Technically, this is correct as this same cmdlet was used to configure SharePoint 2013. If you click … Read More

Unlock a SharePoint File with PowerShell

Ben SteginkOctober 3, 2016powershell, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 20160 Comments

SharePoint can do some goofy things at times. Is getting an orphaned file lock within a Document Library. Fortunately you can quickly unlock a SharePoint file with PowerShell. You may see an error that is similar to: “The file is currently checked out or locked for editing by another user” or “The file is locked for shared use by…” What … Read More

I’ll be speaking at Live! 360 Orlando in December

Ben SteginkSeptember 29, 2016powershell, SharePoint 2016, Speaking0 Comments

I’ll be speaking at Live! 360 Orlando, December 5-9. Surrounded by your fellow industry professionals, Live! 360 provides you with immediately usable training and education that will keep you relevant in the workforce. My Sessions I’ll be presenting the following sessions: Implementing and Managing Office 365 – This sessions will be high level overview of Office 365. We’ll talk about … Read More

Installing and Running PowerShell on macOS Sierra

Ben SteginkAugust 29, 2016powershell0 Comments

I’m sure you’ve seen it, PowerShell has been open sourced and is now available on OS X and Linux. Good news is, you can also run PowerShell on macOS Sierra beta in everything I’ve tested so far (I spent more of the day the other day just writing and running Powershell within macOS beta). Enough about the release, you can … Read More

Favorite SharePoint PowerShell: Merge-SPLogFile

Ben SteginkJune 7, 2016powershell, SharePoint 20130 Comments

For those of you who have been around SharePoint PowerShell for a while, this cmdlet may be old new, for those of you that are new, you’re missing out and for others this may just be a good reminder about this cmdlet. While it doesn’t do anything flashy, in my opinion, it is one of the most useful cmdlets in … Read More

I’m Speaking at JaxFISG on the Basics of PowerShell for SharePoint

Ben SteginkOctober 29, 2015powershell, SharePoint 2013, Speaking0 Comments

This coming Tuesday, November 3, I’ll be giving a presentation at the Jacksonville Florida IT Server Group (JaxFISG) on the Basics of PowerShell for SharePoint. We’ll go over some of the basics of getting started with PowerShell for SharePoint and time permitting look at a few more advanced topics around various task you can automate. I would love for you … Read More

I’m Speaking at JaxSPUG on PowerShell and Office 365

Ben SteginkOctober 16, 2015office365, powershell, Speaking1 Comment

This coming Thursday, October 22, I’ll be giving a presentation at the Jacksonville SharePoint Users Group (JaxSPUG) on PowerShell and Office 365. The title of the session is “Getting Started with PowerShell for Office 365” with the primary focus being SharePoint Online. We would love for you to join us! Head on over to http://www.jaxspug.org/getting-started-with-powershell-for-office-365/ to view more details about … Read More

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