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
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
When creating a farm using powershell, you need to create the managed accounts that your service applications will use. Here’s a script written by Stephen Swinney, Rackspace Senior SharePoint Engineer that does just that!
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$Credentials = @() #Create User Variables $FarmUser = "Domain\SP_Farm" $ServcAppUser = "Domain\SP_SA_AP" $SiteAppUser = "Domain\SP_Site_AP" $SearchSvcUser = "Domain\SP_SearchSvc" #Create Password Variables $FarmPass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "$*t6uxNM3AL4_*R4" -AsPlainText -Force $ServcAppPass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "Htfa3S9^wZ6?CgmX" -AsPlainText -Force $SiteAppPass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "Rt)4(97#kDum" -AsPlainText -Force $SearchSvcPass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "2t+Z(tm2)NU6" -AsPlainText -Force #Create object & add to array $Credentials += New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $FarmUser, $FarmPass $Credentials += New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $ServcAppUser, $ServcAppPass $Credentials += New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $SiteAppUser, $SiteAppPass $Credentials += New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $SearchSvcUser, $SearchSvcPass #Loop through array and create managed accounts foreach ($Credential in $Credentials) { Write-Host "Creating new managed account:" $Credential.UserName -foregroundcolor cyan New-SPManagedAccount -Credential $Credential } #End Script Write-Host "All Managed Accounts Created" -foregroundcolor cyan |
Note: you could also … Read More
Let’s say you have this ginormous farm with hundreds of databases and you want to update the farm to a new CU. First thing you can do is get a list of your content databases using this powershell
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Get-SPContentDatabase | ft DisplayName | out-file c:\PathToFile.txt ## You may also want to know the web application that they're attached Get-SPContentDatabase | ft DisplayName, webApplication | out-file c:\PathToSomeOtherFile.txt ## This above powershell will give you the web application name, if you want the url run something like this Get-SPWEbApplication | ft URL |