The Troubleshooter Mentality
When you think about any trouble you encounter with technology, maybe with your life; but, definitely with technology, there are…
Moving Central Admin
Take into account if is a search server of any type and move the topology, this is a cool powershell…
Brand Central Admin
It’s a great idea to, at the very least, modify the header title of central admin so that some neophyte…
Central Admin Time zone
This is an old, old one, in techno terms, so it’s at least ten years old. All of you who…
The Security Token Service is Unavailable
I received this email from a friend of mine, who is not only a really badAss Windows and Azure Engineer,…
The hitchhikers guide to the SharePoint Troubleshooting Galaxy
So you are a SharePoint Admin or Developer at some firm, somewhere, and you have an issue that you’re facing.…
Post Setup and Configuration Wizard says successful yet status page says failed
Have you ever applied a cumulative update, CU, and the gray wizard, aka post setup configuration wizard or psconfiggui.exe, reports…
Disable Loopback Check (DisableLoopbackCheck Dword 1)
If you ever encounter multiple prompts from a SharePoint server when trying to open a site, go to this location…
Microsoft Ignite 2018
There were a lot of really awesome things revealed at Ignite this year! These were some of my favorites:…
Backing up site collection using backup-spsite and not seeing file grow
When running backup-spsite on a large site collection, say it’s greater than 20GB, you look at the backup directory and…
Changing a domain account password
Sometimes you want to change a domain account password and the account you’re logged into the farm with is able…
List of Site Templates
Template ID Title GLOBAL#0 Global template STS#0 Team Site STS#1 Blank Site STS#2 Document Workspace MPS#0 Basic Meeting Workspace MPS#1…
Checking if a Service account has Replicate Directory Changes
If you have ever had to set up the User Profile Synchronization Service Connection to Active Directory, then you know…
VISIONS – Innovative Tech Conference coming to Tampa this month!
THInc.IT is bringing its signature VISIONS Microsoft Conference to Tampa on October 30th! This is a free full-day event packed…
rebuild 2010 search using powershell
If you need to rebuild a 2010 search service application in a new app pool (and yes I know it…
Google to distrust Symantec (err Verisign 20 year old root cert)
Can you believe there are certs out there that are almost old enough to drink in the 50 states? Amazing! …
When to re-provision the Security Token Service Application in SharePoint
If you’re seeing entries like this in your logs, you might want to re-provision the SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool 08/18/2018 12:54:02.49 w3wp.exe (0x3624)…
SharePoint 2019 – What’s deprecated and What is TOTALLY removed?
It’s still too early to say for certain, what features will be deprecated and which features will be removed. When…
Clear SharePoint Recycle Bin using PowerShell
For one Site collection Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $SPSiteurl = “<Site URL>” $spsite = Get-SPSite -Identity $SPSiteurl $files =$spsite.Recyclebin |?{$_.ItemState -eq…
Clear Config Cache one server at a time
The script below will clear the config cache on each server. It waits until all servers are ready and then…
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