SharePoint, PowerShell & dev notes by Ingo Karstein
154 articles since 2010 · page 1 of 16
After the August 2026 CU for SharePoint Subscription Edition, the Distributed Cache may fail to start. A PowerShell script to export the config, recreate the instance, and bring it back up.
After the August 2026 CU, a migrated site collection can throw InvalidDocumentIdProviderException on the Document ID settings page. A PowerShell script to fix the stale Document ID provider assembly version.
Here is a PowerShell script to add "Profile Sync" account in Active Directory to "Default Domain Context" and "Configuration Context"... The outcome is the same as you would add…
Today I'm preparing a migration of SharePoint Server 2016 to 2019. On Premisses, of course. Now I was ready to attach the old content databases. In doing so, I got an unexpected…
For some time now, when reinstalling SharePoint Server (2019 or Subscription Edition), I have noticed that after creating the ConfigDB and Central Administration content database,…
To push a large repository to GitHub is's one approach to do it step by step: Only some commits at a time. Here is how I do it using Powershell: The name of the remote respository…
Currently I investigate a problem. A SharePoint Server 2019 page showed me an Internal Server Error 500. SharePoint Server 2019 is installed on Windows Server 2022. The August…
Here is a snippet of how to disable certificate checks on PowerShell 7 and above on Windows and Linux / Debian 11.
On my Debian 11 VM, the 'exit' command in a PowerShell script does not work as expected. The script stops working, but the process does not exit either. Now I use this to exit…
I just found out that on my Debian 11 VM in PowerShell the key combination Ctrl+C does not work. The script is not terminated by this, unlike expected. I added the following code…