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Office 365 - Creating Trial Account Office 365  is a subscription service that includes the most recent version of Office, which currently is Office 2016. It comes with the applications you’re familiar with, like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, plus extra online storage, ongoing tech support at no extra cost, and more.  You can choose to pay for an Office 365 subscription on a monthly or yearly basis. Office 365 for business or education Sign Up for Free Trial : Office 365 Enterprise E3 Sign In : portal.office.com You will be welcomed with your Home Page.  You can now explore all the features of Office 365.  Hope this helps. 

SharePoint: Second stage Recycle Bin SharePoint Servers are having a Second stage Recycle bin as well. This is the same as Windows Recycle Bin. The deleted documents will be moved to the SharePoint Recycle Bin. Users will be having their own Bins and cannot see others. By default, the items in Recycle Bin will be deleted after 30 days. The SharePoint Administrators can change these settings based on their requirements.  For Deleting items from SharePoint Recycle Bin, visit   Emptying SharePoint Recycle Bin   After emptying your Recycle Bin, you might want to check your database tables. You'll find the records are still in the table and the database is even bigger. I had to do some research and found that SharePoint is having a Second stage Recycle Bin also. And the tables got bigger only because of the transaction logs. Now we have to deal with these junks to reduce the DB size.  Step 1 : Log in as Site Administrator Step 2 : Goto Site Settings Step 3 : Under Site Collec

PowerShell : Empty SharePoint Recycle Bin I have been in this situation where my SharePoint 2013 Recycle Bin is filled up with over 3 lakh items to delete.  I believe only PowerShell can do this magic. And the below script took me around one hour to delete all items.  $Site = Get-SPSite "SiteUrl" $RootWeb = $Site.RootWeb foreach($web in $RootWeb.Webs) {       $web.RecycleBin.DeleteAll(); } $Site.RecycleBin.DeleteAll(); $Site.Dispose(); Hope you find this helpful.  For more information on Second stage Recycle Bin , visit :  SharePoint Site CleanUp