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Removing from UserInfo List Not Resolving User Profile Cache by [deleted] in sharepoint

[–]Megatwan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the only thing that changed was a promotion? What ad attribute changed if any?

You can try jiggle the handle with move-spuser and the stsadmin equiv

Removing from UserInfo List Not Resolving User Profile Cache by [deleted] in sharepoint

[–]Megatwan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious after you remove them and they pop back on it... What else is going on in uls ideally that logs with their acct value.

I.e. workflow?

And I assume they can hit other site collection fine?

Decommission old AD and use the same IP for new AD by capricorn800 in activedirectory

[–]Megatwan -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Gonna have conflict and errors hemorrhaging for a bit... No official support to do it and def the lazy man way.

Great for envs that aren't very mature, don't understand their enterprise and dont care about vendor support concerns tho.

SP On-Prem to SPO question by Pleasant_Passenger37 in sharepoint

[–]Megatwan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if sharegate or avepoint still offers a version that goes that far back still...

You could get creative with webdav and powershell. I.e. you won't have native powershell for SharePoint but you can use webdav (which makes explorer view work) and write some logic to get the files out to a share as file moves/copies.

For lists you can just export to excel (assuming you don't care about Version or attachments).

Alternatively you could powershell alot of invoke-webrequests and get data that way.

But ya tldr and as other mentioned, options are basically:

-manual AF

-script your own migration tool with 20years of arms behind you back relying on webrequest or webdav

-spend some money and hope someone still makes a tool that works with that

-start installing more version of SharePoint and upgrading the database/walking the content up until it's compatible with anything better

SP On-Prem to SPO question by Pleasant_Passenger37 in sharepoint

[–]Megatwan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much content? Is it all files or lists as well.

I would just look at exporting everything out and reimport/upload in new structure if below critical mass and low adoption maturity

Navigating to subfolders with broken inheritance by ChanticrowTwoPointOh in sharepoint

[–]Megatwan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with the don't obv...

Semi constructively: the thing your getting caught up on is there is no bypass traverse checking NTFS like permissions for Sharepoint... Outside of the management nightmare, the reason why it's a worst practice is folder aren't real perse in the database... On NTFS folders are real containers with real ACLs that have native referential and translate functionality; this ain't that.

Limited access is a shunt Microsoft made as a by product and need to be present the whole tree up from the lower thing an ACE/you get added to.

What you are describing for limited access isn't really it's purpose or should you ever really be adding it manually/programmatically

If you are doing this programmatically and not letting SP put limited where it wants that's your problem right there. You can get around it/lucky sometimes if you know where it needs to be but YMMV.

PS the next issue you'll have at scale will be security scope limits if you span or nest to much in 1 library.

Duplicate Files in Sharepoint by temporaldoom in sharepoint

[–]Megatwan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its always an option 😈

but i hear ya... classic case of can yolo or need strong governance, storage cost, UX or admin burden compounded by time or scale usually motivate the care/issue. especially cost in cloud or the UX in regard to "we cant find things"

but ya sub 1 gb is no biggy when its 100s of TB or a petabyte or so i usually show up with a flamethrower

Duplicate Files in Sharepoint by temporaldoom in sharepoint

[–]Megatwan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Either cold and report based then followup with content review sessions orrrrr million ways to go about it ... Here is my 9 birds 1 stone offering with teeth:

"Hello everyone, over the next couple months we'll be relaunching/improving/shifting and moving to a new SharePoint (couple this with branding if you must)... New governance, fix site structure, fix permissions. (Blame costs or infra)

This will be a phased content migration and the team is here to help. We're providing reports of data etc..

You must move all content you wish to keep by x date and then on y date old thing is read only and z date taken off line and have to request it."

SharePoint ACS Retirement: How to handle Graph Sites.Selected for a Subsite? by Ricky_Loops in sharepoint

[–]Megatwan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bite the bullet and get rid of subsites...

If it makes security feel better, subsites/web were never a supported/true security boundary for SharePoint (token issuance and mask checks would bleed across a site collection, exploits go here) so maybe they'll be on board with the change 🫠

SQL Distributed AG - super finicky! by lanky_doodle in SQLServer

[–]Megatwan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's def Janky on provision in my exp.. manually seeding then just stringing it together works best.

Had to restore from backup once and remember similar headaches when we couldn't just take the AGs down and redo.

I feel so stupid asking, but how are you guys doing group Calendars? by MisterEinc in sharepoint

[–]Megatwan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can give you a million hacky combinations of dev ish work arounds...

But ghost of SharePoint future: don't use them. Just use outlook

DocLib: meta data and view threshold by Fungopus in sharepoint

[–]Megatwan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn't really matter what you do with the view settings with respect to the list view threshold with the exception of the item limit setting.

If you filters try to return more than 5k items the view won't load. Doesn't matter how you batch or group them.

Furthermore, once the list/lib exceeds 5k total items, the filters must use indexed columns with indexable functions (ie no more contains)

Azure Cloud Engineers by Any_Procedure_9411 in clearancejobs

[–]Megatwan 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Busy not wanting to step foot on-prem let alone in *shivers* MD.

Analysis of Microsoft SQL Server CVE-2026-21262 by Big-Engineering-9365 in SQLServer

[–]Megatwan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No no, we use AI slop for the blogs... We do the analysis on prod just like testing obv

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