Troubleshooting SharePoint

21 Mar 2015

SharePoint Managment Shell via remote session

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

You can run a SharePoint Management Shell remotely with the following lines of powershell

$Remotesession = New-PSSession -computername "MY_SPServer_Name_Goes_Here" -Authentication CredSSP -Credential $crd

Invoke-Command -Session $Remotesession -ScriptBlock{Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell}

$Remotesession = New-PSSession -computername "MY_SPServer_Name_Goes_Here" -Authentication CredSSP -Credential $crd

Invoke-Command -Session $Remotesession -ScriptBlock{Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell}

Note, that at this point, you can run whatever administrative PowerShell commands you need to run by using the Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock{} … Read More

14 Mar 2015

A few SharePoint shortcuts

by Stacy Simpkins | posted in: SharePoint Administration | 0

The purpose of this post is to provide the SharePoint administrator and Site Admin with portions of a URL that she or he can append to her or his Central Admin or to a Site URL and immediately be taken … Read More

7 Mar 2015

Rolling out Central Admin and the Config Database and all the assoicated features

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

Here’s an oldy but a goody, how to get your Central Admin and Config Databases created without using the gray wizard. Blog post inspiration –> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607838.aspx This approach results in clean database names.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue


Write-Host "When prompted for credentials, give SharePoint the farm account, not the install account that you are signed in with, then provide the

passphrase, note: you will not be prompted for passPhrase if it is baked into the script" -ForegroundColor green

New-SPConfigurationDatabase -DatabaseName 2013_SharePoint_Config -DatabaseServer SharePointSQL -Passphrase (ConvertTo-SecureString "1Qaz2Wsx3Edc4Rfv" -AsPlainText -Force) -FarmCredentials (Get-Credential) -AdministrationContentDatabaseName 2013_SharePoint_CentralAdmin_Content -SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Write-Host "When prompted for credentials, give SharePoint the farm account, not the install account that you are signed in with, then provide the

passphrase, note: you will not be prompted for passPhrase if it is baked into the script" -ForegroundColor green

New-SPConfigurationDatabase -DatabaseName 2013_SharePoint_Config -DatabaseServer SharePointSQL -Passphrase (ConvertTo-SecureString "1Qaz2Wsx3Edc4Rfv" -AsPlainText -Force) -FarmCredentials (Get-Credential) -AdministrationContentDatabaseName 2013_SharePoint_CentralAdmin_Content -SkipRegisterAsDistributedCacheHost

# Note: you can remove the … Read More

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