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  • Fixing Upgrade Problems in SharePoint SE 2025

    After upgrading a client to SharePoint SE version from 2013, issues arose while mounting content databases, specifically a type initializer exception. Research led to identifying the “System account” in the WSS_WPG group as a potential cause. Removing it resolved the upgrade issue, allowing the database upgrade to proceed smoothly.

  • SharePoint SE Upgrade: Resolving Workflow Failures

    After upgrading a client to SharePoint Subscription Edition from 2013, workflows failed to start due to assembly version issues. The ULS logs indicated errors relating to version 15.0.0.0 instead of 16.0.0.0, despite guidance suggesting configuration changes to web.config and owstimer.exe.config. Specific entries were necessary to resolve the issue.

  • back in 2013 a web part was published on Codeplex which was called “ClaimsViewerWebPart”. I do not know who the author was, but since I stiil find it a really useful web part I decompiled the code and made a new project to support SharePoint 2019 and Subscription Edition. Installation To install a solution you…

  • I have created a github repository where I uploaded a few scripts I use to manage SharePoint On-prem environments. Github repository can be found at https://github.com/Rob3r70/SharePoint

  • Not too long ago, I had a project where we were upgrading a client environment from SharePoint 2016 to Subscription Edition and one of the tasks was to move to new URL as well. All good when we arrived at the part where we needed to show social comments on pages. SharePoint used to have…

  • I have always struggled with SPMT PowerShell because the use is not really intuitive and comparing to UI tool it does not offer so many options. One of the things that really bothered me was hot to migrate a SharePoint web or sub web to a new site collection and I found out that only…

  • I intend to use this blog site to write about my findings and learnings with SharePoint OnPrem and SharePoint Online