Troubleshooting SharePoint

8 Jul 2018

What account is the farm account and how in the @#$% do I change it?

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Permissions, PowerShell, Security, SharePoint Administration, Troubleshooting | 0

Here’s a quick and dirty way to find out the farm account

(Get-SPFarm).DefaultServiceAccount.Name

1	(Get-SPFarm).DefaultServiceAccount.Name

If that account looks something like this, you need to change it

c:\(Get-SPFarm).DefaultServiceAccount.Name
NETWORK SERVICE
c:\

c:\(Get-SPFarm).DefaultServiceAccount.Name

NETWORK SERVICE

c:\

stsadm.exe -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin “Domain\svc_Account” -password “$*y7uxmM2AL4_*r7”

1	stsadm.exe -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin “Domain\svc_Account” -password “$y7uxmM2AL4_r7”

Make sure the account is not disabled or locked before you run … Read More

23 Jun 2018

Re-creating the SharePoint Web Services Site

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: IIS, PowerShell, SharePoint Administration, Troubleshooting | 0

How to restore the SharePoint Web Services IIS Web Site if accidently deleted The above blog post explains that it is possible to, erroneously, remove the SharePoint Services website from the file system when there are extended zones in play … Read More

16 Jun 2018

Remove Server from farm

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Distributed Cache, PowerShell, SharePoint Administration, Update | 0

The best methods to remove a server from the farm are to either use the psconfig wizard or run Disconnect-SPconfigurationDatabase If that has not happened and someone deleted the VM without first disconnecting the vm from the farm, please … Read More

13 Jun 2018

Migrating a Search Service Application

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, Search, SharePoint Administration, Troubleshooting | 0

If you ever have to migrate a search service application from one farm to the next. Do two things: Make sure that the farm’s use the correct SQL client Alias (cliconfg.exe) Run this powershell after you have migrated the … Read More

23 May 2018

SysKit’s Security Manager for SharePoint

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Permissions, Security, SharePoint Administration, Troubleshooting | 0

Another great tool From the creators of SPDocKit, comes one of the best SharePoint security management tools yet to hit the market, SysKit Security Manager for SharePoint. And, like all SysKit products, it works with all SharePoint versions! All of … Read More

18 May 2018

Register-SPWorkflowService : Failed to query the OAuth S2S metadata endpoint at URI ‘what the @#@$@##?’ is going on

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Workflow Manager | 0

If you have followed the instructions on this site to create the workflow management service and you can see the service in IIS, you see the site in IIS, but when you go to register the workflow service you’re getting … Read More

12 May 2018

TelNet not working

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Server Administration | 0

If you’re trying to test connectivity between servers on a specific port and you go to use TelNet and receive a nasty little message that tells you that “telnet is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program … Read More

5 May 2018

Got Trusts? Need Info about the Domain and it’s trust relationships

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Active Directory Administration, People Picker, Server Administration, Troubleshooting | 0

The following blog post is just a re-blogurtation of this post https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16067.nltest-to-test-the-trust-relationship-between-a-workstation-and-domain.aspx 1.NLTEST can be used to show this trust relationship. PS C:\> nltest /trusted_domains List of domain trusts: 0: GS gs.com (NT 5) (Direct Outbound) (Direct Inbound) ( … Read More

29 Apr 2018

Who’s been logging into machines in my domain? And when were the accounts created?

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, Server Administration | 0

If you’re looking to find out who has been logging into machines in your domain, this powershell will tell you just that. You could change out the line that finds the last logon date where it is greater than the … Read More

28 Apr 2018

SysKit nailed it right on the head when they called their new SharePoint Monitoring product, Insights!

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Monitoring Solution, Performance, Security, SharePoint Administration, Troubleshooting | 0

If you liked SPDocKit, you will absolutely love SysKit Insights! From the creators of SPDocKit, comes one of the best SharePoint monitoring tools yet to hit the market, SysKit Insights. The name of the product “Insights” is spot-on, accurate, as … Read More

28 Apr 2018

Could not load type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Marketplace.corporatecuratedgallery

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell | 0

Imagine that you are getting this message:(or, maybe you don’t have to imagine, because you are actually getting it) Sorry, something went wrong Could not load type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Marketplace.CorporateCuratedGallery.SPCorporateCatalogAccessor’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=16.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c’. Technical Details Troubleshoot issues with Microsoft … Read More

28 Apr 2018

Got Web.config Mods? Site won’t start? App Pool starts and stops?

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Performance, PowerShell, SharePoint Administration, Troubleshooting | 0

When your site wont start or is not loading properly there may be modifications to the web.config that have caused this and you might need to determine how to remove them. You’ve already verified that the application pool identity password … Read More

18 Apr 2018

Modifying a SharePoint 2013 or 2016 Search Topology – After Index Reset

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, Search | 0

The following blog post works best with an empty index. In other words, it works best before your first full crawl, or immediately after you have reset the search index. Don’t use this for a search topology where the index … Read More

7 Apr 2018

Fixing degraded search index replica’s in a ginormous search farm

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, Search | 0

Credit for this post: Scott Fawley, SharePoint Guru Here is a handy script that MS sent while troubleshooting a Search issue in a customer’s 2013 Prod farm. This will show you the state of all partitions and replicas along with … Read More

29 Mar 2018

SharePoint 2013 Service Applications with ability to add a prefix

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: PowerShell, SharePoint Administration | 0

After you finish running this script, you’ll need to create the work management service application, app management service application, subscriptions settings service application, and if you’re using powerpivot, then that would need to be configured too. There are other posts … Read More

19 Mar 2018

Migrating a Managed MetaData database

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: Managed Metadata, PowerShell, Server Administration | 0

To move the managed metadata database, take a copy only backup of it from your SQL server and then restore from files in your new SQL server. I’ll write a future post on that and put a link to it … Read More

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