Mike Lee

SharePoint / Script to locate documents encrypted with passwords

Summary A customer asked if there was a method to identity documents stored in SharePoint online that were encrypted with passwords. Since nothing like this existed, it was created using PowerShell. I’m sharing this because the logic in the script may be useful for others. The Code Takeaways This scripts loops though a specified document […]

SharePoint PerfWiz Replacement

What is SharePoint Perfwiz and why do we need a replacement? SharePoint Perfwiz was a tool used by Product Support to create performance log counters on SharePoint servers to troubleshoot performance issues. This tool has been deprecated but there is still a need to collect performance data for those pesky performance issues. The Perfwiz tool […]

Access Denied when running PROCDUMP

Summary Just a quick blog post that details why you may receive an “Access Denied” when running PROCDUMP and a quick fix for this scenario. Problem Description Unable to dump a process with PROCDUMP due to an “Access Denied” error. Example: ProcDump v9.0 – Sysinternals process dump utility Copyright (C) 2009-2017 Mark Russinovich and Andrew […]

SharePoint Access Request e-mails are not delivered, but alerts work

Problem Summary I recently worked on a few cases where SharePoint “Access Request” e-mails are not delivered, but “Alert” e-mails work. Since Alert e-mail are working, we know that outgoing e-mail is configured properly. However, when users request access to a new site, the access request email would never make it to the site admin […]

Summary I have seen this very obscure SharePoint issue a few times and almost impossible to identity and resolve without extensive debugging. So, I just wanted to get this blog out there to help the next SharePoint Admin that may experience this situation with a quick resolution. Symptom: While trying to access the site http://sharepoint […]

Summary It’s a best practice to test the compatibility of a migrated content database against the new target Farm before attaching the database and allowing users to access the migrated sites. This compatibly test is achieved by running Test-SPContentDatabase. Sounds too easy, right? Well, I recently worked on a case where “Test-SPContentDatabase” was reporting missing […]