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What I've begun setting up the governance model for SharePoint Online and was working out the best way to ensure when I give someone SharePoint Administration Access that they automatically have full access to administer every Site Collection. My method is to use the 'SharePoint Service Administrator' Group.  This is the group that you are added to when your O365 User Account is assigned the 'SharePoint Administrator' Role. Why My reasoning is that way when a staff member joins the team you only need to get them added to one spot and they are good to get on with the work. Problem Occasionally you will want to check that the right staff have access.  How do you report on who is a member of that group!?  I searched high and low to no avail.  When that fails, there's only one choice...  Powershell. Here's the script you need to run in order to bring back a list of every user that has been given SharePoint Adminstrator Access: #Connection to Off...

Logged into DocAve today to move some content from one site to another, only to come across this error as soon as I logged in: "The timer service is down, which may cause the manager service stop working.  Please ensure your timer service is started." My first thought: Don't care, as long as I can still complete my task.  So went to Content Manager, tried to expand my farm in the tree-view, only to get this error! An error occurred while loading the data.  Please view the logs for details. I'm the kind of man that uses Logs as a last resort, so here's how I fixed it: Logged onto the server that is hosting the DocAve 6 Manager, then opened up the 'Manager Restart Service Tool' for DocAve from the Start Menu & restarted all three services: Once they restarted, tried logging back into DocAve, but turns out one of my Server Agents was still down:   View of Agent Monitor which can be found by navigating to Control Panel ...

Today I tried to log into our DocAve 6 Suite on our SharePoint 2010 environment and came across this error message: Sorry, the account has been disabled. Please contact the administrator My guess was that due to inactivity (hadn't logged in for a few months) the accounts had been disabled.  The problem was that every Administrator account had been disabled so I couldn't get in! After a quick call to AvePoint, the techies solved the issue quick smart.  Here's how you can save yourself a call and Enable a user accounts status again: Log onto the SQL Server that stores the AvePoint Databases. Navigate to AvePoint's ControlDB Right-Click >  Select TOP 1000 rows for the table dbo.AccountMapping In the results, you should see all your accounts, and a Status column which states whether the account is disabled or not (1 = disabled, 0 = enabled) Right click the dbo.AccountMapping table and Edit TOP 200 Rows , and modify the Status from 1 to 0 for the account in q...