This post describes how you can remove a user from the User Information List (UIL) in a site collection from SharePoint 2010 and 2013. SharePoint stores user information in the UIL to extract data when this user is being searched by the people picker. The people picker extracts information from multiple locations: – The User … Read More
Month: October 2013
Get all SharePoint database sizes
SharePoint creates 15+ databases during installation and configuration and it’s possible you want to know the size of each database without connecting to the database server or manually checking each size. You can easily get the size of each database using the following PowerShell one-liner: Get-SPDatabase | Sort-Object disksizerequired -desc | %{write-host “Size: $($_.disksizerequired/1mb)MB – … Read More
Getting SQL Instance Edition or service pack for SQL 2012
I have posted the below query before for SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2 on https://www.sharepointfire.com/?p=138 and it is still usable for SQL Server 2012 SELECT SERVERPROPERTY(‘Edition’) AS ‘Edition’, SERVERPROPERTY(‘ProductVersion’) AS ‘ProductVersion’, SERVERPROPERTY(‘ProductLevel’) AS ‘ProductLevel’, SERVERPROPERTY(‘ResourceLastUpdateDateTime’) AS ‘ResourceLastUpdateDateTime’, SERVERPROPERTY(‘ResourceVersion’) AS ‘ResourceVersion’ GO (It is possible you need to change the ‘)
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