SharePoint: Disable Audit Logs on all Site Collections of a WebApplication

The following code snippet shows how to disable audit logs in PowerShell for all Site Collections of a WebApplication.

SharePoint: Timerservice not starting jobs

On one of my servers the timer service stopped working. It could’nt start jobs anymore. Therefore it was not possible to do any deployments. This can have many reasons. In my case it started after installing the SP 2016 November CU.

Set a site collection read-only programmatically in Office 365

On SharePoint On-Premise systems setting a site collection to read-only mode was easy. Administrators could activate the read-only state in the central administration or they could write PowerShell or C# Code. SharePoint Online does not offer any of these methods anymore.

The Read Only Endpoints from SPOnPremise are finally available in SharePoint Online too. Please use the new method I have described here instead.

SharePoint: PeoplePicker caching and filtering

In default mode the SharePoint PeoplePicker shows all users from the trusted domains. In some cases it is necessary to filter the users (e.g. only showing users from one domain in a specific web application).

SharePoint Move Navigation Nodes using keyboard Shortcuts

In SharePoint Publishing sites you can manage the quicklaunch / current Navigation using the „Edit Links„-Button or in the site you find under „Navigation“ in the site settings (Manage Web Permission is needed for this button to appear).

The „Navigation“ Sites usability is quite bad because it takes forever because to move nodes up and down using the „Move Up“ and „Move Down“ Buttons.

SharePoint Calculated Column: Show only time of a date field

SharePoint calculated columns use Microsoft Excel syntax. Therefore you can combine multiple field values to create a special value. Using this technique you can make a „time field“ out of a date field.

SharePoint: Email enabled Lists

Just because the question came up some time ago here is a list of list templates where incoming emails can be enabled by default.

SharePoint Community template problem fixed

Some time ago I wrote about a problem regarding the SharePoint community template in SharePoint 2016. I had opened a microsoft upport ticket for this. The fix seems to be quite easy because the problem has been fixed in the SharePoint 2016 December CU.

Links to the Web and Site Collection functions

The following list contains links to the main objects of a SharePoint SiteCollection or Web in the SharePoint Object model.

SharePoint Community Template problem

In SharePoint 2016 the „Community“ site template has a nasty bug which can only solved by changing the Sites regional settings.