These days, cloud solution providers everywhere are marketing “serverless” solutions. While serverless computing is not at all new, it is getting a lot more attention due to the increasing popularity of DevOps and cloud in general. The promise is that serverless will eventually replace how developers currently create software and how this software is managed in production by operations. This article provides an introductory look at serverless. What exactly is it? And what additional advantages does it offer to the DevOps process?
How To Change A SharePoint List Or Library URL
All versions of the SharePoint user interface provide an option to change the title (or display name) of a list or library. Changing SharePoint library URL (or internal name), however, is not exactly very intuitive. We will discuss the process in this article.
Timer job to delete SharePoint orphaned users
This article discusses how to create a timer job for deleting orphaned users (SharePoint users that are deleted or disabled in AD) using Visual Studio. I have tested this solution on both SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2010. So, it would of course also work for SharePoint 2013.
PowerShell script to delete SharePoint orphaned users
Orphaned users in SharePoint are users that have been disabled or completely deleted from active directory but are still referenced in list items and sites, and especially in the SharePoint people picker control. This article explains how to remove them using PowerShell.
Converting asynchronous SharePoint event receivers to synchronous
If you encounter the edit properties box on single document uploads and still want to run custom code in the ItemAdded event receiver, you will need to employ the method discussed in this article of converting asynchronous SharePoint event receivers to synchronous. The motivation behind this post was to avoid save conflict errors. But there are potentially other scenarios where it might be useful to make asynchronous SharePoint event receivers synchronous.
Adding fields to SharePoint lists with the AddFieldAsXml method
If you perform any automated website or list/library creation in SharePoint, you would at one point or another need to define and add fields (SPField) via code using the AddFieldAsXml method of the SPFieldCollection class. This article focuses on a few “gotchas” you may encounter while working with this method.