SharePoint Configuration/Troubleshooting

Hello All, Good Morning :) Yesterday while working on an issue I came across a situation where I misplaced URL's of some hidden lists which were shared with us in our SharePoint site collection and I really wanted to access the list to get some details.  I started looking for some PowerShell script to find hidden lists however couldn't find a good script online.  After sometime I thought of opening the site in SharePoint Designer and see if the lists can be found there.  So when I opened SP Designer and clicked on Lists and Libraries under Navigation - Site Objects hoping that the list should be seen here, however it wasn't available there as well. Here is how I was able to found that list: 1. Open your SharePoint site in SP Designer 2. Under Navigation - Click All Files 3. Under All Files you will see a folder called "Lists" 4. In this folder you will see all your lists which are hidden to all users (Administrators as well). In order to grab URL...

I came across a situation where in there were multiple SharePoint farms which had their own User Profile service application and there was a farm which was consuming User Profile Application from another farm and it was not documented from which farm it is consuming.  For some troubleshooting purpose I wanted to find out from which farm the User Profile application is consumed, I didn't find any easy way from SharePoint Central Administration.  So finally I thought Powershell should be helpful here. I used below cmdlets to find out the server farm from where UPA was consumed: 1. Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy | select TypeName, ID | Format-Table -AutoSize 2. Copy GUID of User Profile Application Proxy 3. After you have ID for the User Profile Application Connection Proxy, run below cmdlet:     $upa = Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy -Identity "Paste ID of Connection Proxy copied" 4. $upa | select ServiceEndPointURI | Format-List This above cmdlet will ha...