stop sharepoint.exe ?

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[astro46]

Once a day a notification pops up about sharepoint.exe wanting to access the internet. I don’t allow it.

As far as I know, I don’t use sharepoint for anything.

I believe that it may have to do with  syncing some folders with a onedrive account. I allow access for the 2 or 3 .exe’s that allow onedrive to work.  The onedrive sync seems to work fine, and has for about a year.

But what is the point of sharepoint needing to involve itself? From what I see about sharepoint, there is nothing about it that I use.

How can I stop sharepoint from activating?

• This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by astro46.

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From what I can find, it is used to sync Sharepoint libraries. Check your OneDrive settings to see which folders are being synced. If you disable syncing a SharePoint library the exe should top being activated.

--Joe

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I don’t have any sharepoint libraries listed in the onedrive app on desktop. Maybe 10 individual files, all set to be available offline.

Is there somewhere else that a sharepoint library might be listed?

What is a sharepoint library?

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A SharePoint library is similar to a folder on your PC. Usually, all the individual entries/files in the library have the same format.

You should see the library/folder listed in the OneDrive client.

--Joe

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Listed in onedrive client? I recognize all the files in onedrive, except one, which is named a long series of letters and numbers, 63 bytes in size. But this is a file, not a folder. Is this a sharepoint file or part of the onedrive sync system?

Remove it and see what happens?

But it doesn’t sound like the library that you are describing.

Where else could  sharepoint be hiding?

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astro46 wrote:

But what is the point of sharepoint needing to involve itself? From what I see about sharepoint, there is nothing about it that I use.

Q. Are you using OneDrive for Business, perhaps for syncing your files with a mobile device?

Q. Does the notification popup occur randomly or is it the same time each day?

astro46 wrote:

Where else could sharepoint be hiding?

The sharepoint.exe file is probably found in a OneDrive sub-folder stored within your user profile, for example:

C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OneDrive\22.121.0605.0002

There may be other copies of the sharepoint.exe file. A file search utility like Everything (small, free and with a portable version to save installation) will search your system for sharepoint.exe far faster than using the built-in File Explorer.

Hope this helps…

 

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I don’t use nor sync any files with OneDrive yet sharepoint.exe has been updated on Nov. 8 (patch Tuesday) even though I didn’t run Windows update on that date.

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Rick Corbett wrote:

Q. Are you using OneDrive for Business, perhaps for syncing your files with a mobile device? Q. Does the notification popup occur randomly or is it the same time each day?

Not using Onedrive for Business nor syncing with a mobile device

I haven’t kept track of the time when the notification appears. I generally tell Malwarebytes Firewall Control to block and then it appears again the next day. I will try to take note of when it appears. I just looked at my firewall rules and see 38 block rules for sharepoint.exe located in folders with slightly different numbers within the onedrive folder. Seems it’s recreating itself.

I did change the name of sharepoint.exe in the Onedrive folder and your suggestion to search for other instances is a good one. Though I would prefer to stop whatever is calling it rather than have calls going on endlessly in the background. I also looked for it in task scheduler but didn’t find it, though that isn’t definitive.

Or find out what wonderful purpose it would serve by letting it run.

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astro46 wrote:

I just looked at firewall rules and see 38 block rules for sharepoint.exe located in folders with slightly different numbers, within the onedrive folder. Seems it is recreating.

Q. Any chance of a screenshot of those 39 block rules so we can see if the slightly different numbers refer perhaps to versioning or maybe ‘per user’ child processes spawned from a template service, i.e. which change every logon.

(I always remove OneDrive completely during clean installs… so don’t currently have it available on any device, not even test laptop.)

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Screenshot of sharepoint.exe block rules is attached. Let me know if there’s a problem seeing it or you’d like more info.

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astro46 wrote:

screenshot of sharepoint.exe block rules is attached.

Thank you. Those are quite clearly incremental version updates rather than the result of a spawned process as the result of ‘per user’ services. However, it shows a pattern that is usable for further investigation…

(As an aside, can you see what time/date period these incremental updates cover? It seems rather a lot..)

IMO the next step is to see what is *causing* sharepoint.exe to run… i.e. find the trigger.

For that, IMO the 2 best tools are Nir Sofer’s TaskSchedulerView and Sysinternals/Technet’s Process Monitor… both small, free and portable.

TaskSchedulerView, IMO, avoids the awfulness of Microsoft’s built-in Task Scheduler and, instead, shows a view of tasks that is both sortable and searchable by all available criteria.

For this issue, sort on the Executable File column or just search for sharepoint.exe. to see if a scheduled task exists:

Hope this helps…

 

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I don’t see any dates on the firewall rules and there are over 30 rules (updates?) I update software once a month, except a/v definitions autoupdate and any software that is updating without my knowledge, and the computer that the list is from is only 18 months old.

I ran taskscheduler viewer (nirsoft) and searched for sharepoint and found nothing. So I guess it isn’t a task that is activating it?

Someone suggested that sharepoint might have been installed during Office install. I ran office modification and indeed found sharepoint foundation service not set to ‘don’t install’. I set it, let office modify, rebooted my computer and immediately found sharepoint trying to access the internet.

Back to Office modification and found sharepoint foundation service again without ‘don’t install’ set (ie: it reversed my “don’t install”) so I went through process again with the same result. The 3rd time I checked under sharepoint foundation service and found two other apps I set to ‘don’t install’ (being Microsoft it makes the topmost app setting might not effect the other ones, or ignore the setting, or in some other way not be sensible.) This time, after rebooting, no sharepoint (though checking Office install again the sharepoint foundation service again reset itself to install.) However, since that time yesterday thru today, there’s been no request from sharepoint to access the internet.

It’ll take a few more days before I believe it’s really gone and, if so, then I’ll try the same process on the other units.

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Sad to say, sharepoint returned yesterday.

I’m not seeing the next step, at this point. I had tried renaming sharepoint.exe in the onedrive folder, and that didn’t fix it.

other ideas, anyone?

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I may have solved the annoyance of sharepoint.exe .

I already use pcloud to sync a number of files between computers (in offline access folder). Since I only started using onedrive because Word on the iphone won’t edit a .docx without putting it in onedrive (sleazy forcing of onedrive usage), I set up onedrive for a few files. Recently I find that trying to open those files in iphone Word is giving error.

So, I have moved the files back to pcloud and removed onedrive app from all computers. I’ll live without the option of editing those files on iphone.

No more sharepoint.

At least for last 3 days.

And one less app running in background.

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