It can happen that when you are trying to install new software on your device, the installation gets only so far and then mysteriously vanishes without completing the installation. This can happen for various reasons, but in this example, we’ll handle the cause as a policy set by system administrators to protect users from malware trying to exploit their system.
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Get the Total Number of Documents in a SharePoint Site Collection Library and its Sub Folders using .NET
One thing that you often need and that is quite annoying to get in a default SharePoint installation is the total number of files in a document library and all of its sub-folders. The most common advice is to open the explorer view and then navigate through the folders and add up the file totals, but this becomes tedious really quickly if you have a library with numerous files and folders. Another option is to write a PowerShell script, but then you need to be on the SharePoint server itself and with an account that doesn’t have access to the document libraries. Also, in the case of PowerShell, you’ll quickly become annoyed with the many bad script examples out there that don’t work and end up taking your time. Continue reading “Get the Total Number of Documents in a SharePoint Site Collection Library and its Sub Folders using .NET”
SharePoint: Addressing Seemingly Random Critical Error Event 6398
I was running both a SharePoint 2013 and a SharePoint 2016 standard edition installation with stock, out of the box setups. Seemingly randomly, and on the same day, both started generating Critical Event 6398 Errors once every hour that looked like the error below:
By the way, also check out part #2 of this solution to check out what to do next after this. Continue reading “SharePoint: Addressing Seemingly Random Critical Error Event 6398”