I have used replication between 8 SharePoint server farms for almost a year now. I am usually a very nice and patient person, but now the patience is running out and I feel frustrated and need to write about this so maybe it can help others who are considering replication. And I am being brutally honest (sorry to …

One thing that is introduced (or has come back actually) in SP2013 is: AD import. The big benefit of using ADI is that it is fast and easy to setup. Also, the filters are ready so you can just check a box to filter out disabled accounts!! Great! Not much can go wrong there. But, …

This is not an error in the Replication tool, but it caused the replication to stop working. One day the replication on one of our servers stopped working. Inbound packages were just stuck in the queue, and when I tested the replication connection I got this message: “An error occurred while verifying virtual directories on target”: So …

Since we started using the Replication software our SQL disks has filled up quite quickly. Of course we usually have alert systems warning us for disks running out of space but due to new system that had not yet been setup. So one day I could not get replication to work on one of our servers, …

I got this error when I clicked on “Create new connection” in the User Profile Services App, to setup a new connection to the AD. If you get it, just restart the User Profile Synchronization Services under “Services on Server” in CA.

I have a workflow that sends a mail to the users when ever a list item is edited and a specific field is updated. I don’t want the users to access the list, so I built a simple workflow to send a mail to them instead.The challenge is to make the mail look like it …

How come I always tell the company I work or consult for, that I am not a developer.. and then I always end up developing stuff anyway? For my part, it is more of a frustration part, because it takes so much time to develop than to use the out of the box functionality. But …

If you want to reduce the amount of user profiles that are imported from AD, then a good way is to filter the AD connection. Then you can filter out disabled accounts and for example, accounts that does not have a mail address. Go to you AD connection in the User Profile Service Application and hover …

I love the power of PowerShell. And I use it a lot to do stuff, it is much easier and faster than using CA. And I find myself googling Microsoft or other pages over and over for the same commands, because I simply cannot remember the parameters and it is faster to just google it. So …

Why is it that you often start doing things in SharePoint that you find really useful, and when you have almost reached your goal – the whole idea just falls? This happened to me when I setup a taxonomy for a department, we built the trees and deployed them to the libraries. All looked really …