The main point of this post is to create awareness around the fact that you can use the CreateTerm PowerShell method on a TermSet object to create a new managed metadata term with a specified Term ID. You’ll have to read to the end to understand why that’s a big deal, and to see it

This was a really unique situation where a network problem for the Hybrid App Launcher caused People Picker to intermittently time out and display no results. Note: The two features are not directly related as you’ll see below.   Let me explain: When you configure Hybrid OneDrive and Sites in SharePoint 2016, it adds an

Consider the Following Scenario: You’re using SharePoint Profile Synchronization (FIM Sync) to import user profiles from Active Directory (AD) into a SharePoint 2010 or 2013 farm. Users that have been deleted in Active Directory still show active user profiles in the User Profile Service Application (UPA). They also show up in People Search results and

Consider the following scenario:     You have SharePoint 2016 set up to import user profiles from an External Identity Manager. We’ll say you’re using Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) 2016 to import profiles from some 3rd party LDAP directory. The profiles should be imported as Trusted Provider type users (SAML-claims). You run a Sync, and everything goes

What are the Super User and Super Reader accounts for? This is explained pretty well on Docs here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SharePoint/administration/configure-object-cache-user-accounts In general, they are used in the process of making SharePoint Publishing sites (any site using the publishing features) render quickly and efficiently. Please keep in mind that these accounts are not actually required to be

  Consider the following scenario: You have a SharePoint 2016 site that has been enabled for anonymous access. You have some Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) documents in a library that anonymous users also have access to. A user clicks on a (for example) Word document to open it. They receive a credential prompt,

This post covers the scenario where users log in via Trusted Provider / SAML-claims,  (like ADFS, Ping, Okta, Site Minder, etc) and intermittently, they are redirected back to the login page to re-authenticate. There are a few pieces of information you need for a scenario like this (beyond normal scoping): 1. Output of Get-SPSecurityTokenServiceConfig from one