Category: SharePoint Subscription Edition

Update 5/17/23: This content was published to Learn.microsoft.com. See Upgrade from Workflow Manager to SharePoint Workflow Manager on a new farm. When upgrading major versions of SharePoint (like from 2013 to 2019), you will also need to account for the 2013-platform workflows that use Workflow Manager (WFM). Since WFM is no longer supported or available

Some of the documentation that I have relied on for years discussing network ports required for SharePoint People Picker has been archived due to age. However, because the underlying functionality of People Picker hasn’t really changed much, the port requirements haven’t either. Here’s the list that applies to all versions of SharePoint Server: Protocol Ports

Problem: When you browse to site settings within a Communications site, you see that certain links under Web Designer Galleries are missing, such as: For example, Communications site on the left, and Teams site on the right: Also, if you browse directly to the Themes gallery by appending _catalogs/theme/Forms/AllItems.aspx to the URL and try to upload a file,

Consider the following scenario: You try to delete a user from a site collection, either in the UI (Site Settings | People and Groups | delete users from site collection), or by using the PowerShell command Remove-SPUser. The operation runs for a long time, during which the sites within that content database may suffer severe

I recently went looking for an article showing how to configure People Picker for 1-way trusts and was disappointed with what I found. Many articles reference the cringe-worthy STSADM commands. Others are either incomplete or less than concise. So here’s my take on it: Background: When using Windows authentication within SharePoint, a domain or forest

I’ve already written a few things on this topic, but I thought I’d add additional background, consolidate concepts, and highlight a new (to me) twist. Background: SharePoint Server (doesn’t matter which version) People Picker should not return disabled user accounts from Active Directory. If it does, there’s a configuration problem in either Active Directory or

Some Background: Since pretty much the beginning of SharePoint, user profile synchronization has been a two-step process: 1. Import user data from Active Directory to the User Profile Service Application (UPA). 2. Push that user data from the UPA down to each site collection. Step 2 is our focus here, and is automatically done by