SharePoint Item Level Permissions

There can be situations when you have to provide item level permissions to one of the user on a list with hundred of items. This can be quite tedious with the manual approach so obviously Powershell will be the saver here 🙂 Sharing the script that will add itemlevel permissions: Input ot the script :…

Sharepoint Error: The server block is not well formed

Note:- Do take Backup of site collection before following this procedure Admins working on SharePoint might have encountered this error ( it was reported to us only 2 times in 3 years) The server block is not well formed You will find lot of articles on the internet stating to use SharePoint designer to reset definition of the…

Sharepoint Missing Features – Health Analyzer

Sharing the method that we have used to fix the missing feature errors that were coming in Health Analyzer, There was one more issue that was coming & got resolved automatically ones missing feature issue was fixed. (High CPU utilization during search crawl that happens daily) Note down the feature id from the error &…

Workflow Failed on Start (retrying)

Hi Readers, Writing an interesting troubleshooting post in Sharepoint area, We have encountered the below error while executing workflows on the SharePoint Workflow Failed on Start (retrying) On checking further in ULS logs : Load Workflow Class: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. —> System.InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a…

SharePoint 2013 New Features and Improvements

Hi Readers, Was refreshing my Share point Knowledge & wanted to share New improvements in 2013 versions, Below is the list of new features/Improvements: Request Management –> Route /Recognize/Prioritize/ Refuse/Redirect Distributed Cache –> Cache is Synchronized between servers Minimal Download Strategy (MDS) –> Download only portions that have changed. Shredded Storage –> Reduces BLOB I/O during…