Move logging of the operating system drive and right size SharePoint 2013 intranet portal
Here are your steps and you have to do them on each server in the farm: Make sure the…
Author: Stacy Simpkins
Papa, Dad, Friend, and SharePoint professional.
Avoiding the Confirm prompt in scripts
There are two ways you can suppress confirmation from a script or console: 1. Set the automatic variable to ‘None’…
Customizing your PowerShell window colors
The information about the settings for your PowerShell’s shell colors are stored in the object model at: System.Management.Automation.Internal.Host.InternalHost and at System.Management.Automation.Internal.Host.InternalHostRawUserInterface under…
Backing up a SharePoint 2010 farm
here are a lot of good scripts out there to use for backing up your SharePoint. This one is one…
Merry Christmas!!!
I hope you’ve enjoyed reading this blog over the last year and that you’ve had a great year in SharePoint.…
Setting up your farm for optimal performance – Super User and Super Reader Accounts
It is important to configure the super user and super reader accounts for your SharePoint farm in order to optimize…
Farm is failing to create a new web application on all servers in the farm IIS
If you ever run into a situation where your farm suddenly fails to create the web application on all front…
Exporting and Importing just a list or a library
If the goal is to import just one list or one library there are a couple ways you can accomplish…
Provisioning a SharePoint 2010 Farm Service Applications using a PowerShell Script
This video is best if watched in Full Screen modeand any references to completed services should really say, the powershell script…
Links to Software to create a home lab
Pre-requisite: A server with at least 16 GB of RAM http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538 – Server 2012 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973397 – SharePoint Server 2013…
What are Crawled Properties, iFilters, and Connectors in SharePoint 2010?
This post lists links to various TechNet resources, along with a brief regarding each resource: Crawled Properties: this page details…
How to – IIS moving sites and applications
Don’t ever do this #%$^ with a SharePoint site In this completely, hypothetical, situation, you are the web administrator…
A few Random development tricks – slighted trickery
CSS to block quicklaunch etc. <style> .ms-quicklaunch { display:none; } .ms-navframe { display: none; } .ms-globalTitleArea { display: none; }…
Migrating to Windows 2008 R2 from a 32-bit (x86) Server
Overview Since Windows 2008 R2 only comes in a 64-bit flavor it is impossible to perform an in place…
Convert a classic based authentication SharePoint 2010 web application into a claims based web application that will use forms based authentication
This blog post attempts to bridge the gap between creating a claims based authentication web application versus converting a classic…
An error has occurred after removal of an extended zone
Let’s say you’ve applied the advice from unextending an extended zone and are now either getting a blank page after re-using the the…
Speed up that slow team site, make it publish and harness the output cache
The steps below turn your team site into a team site that is capable of using publishing features and capabilities. But all…
Enable and Use Developer Dashboard to see how your page loads and view metrics.
Pre-requisites: Site-collection administrator Follow these steps, or ask your admin, to enable the developer dashboard in on demand mode: (green-can…
Solution wont deploy, error in web.config, and avoiding this
If you ever run into an issue where you or one of your fellow admins went to deploy a solution using…
Move SharePoint Server IIS to a different drive
To move IIS to a different drive is a fairly straightforward procedure. This blog – -> http://blogs.iis.net/thomad/archive/2008/02/10/moving-the-iis7-inetpub-directory-to-a-different-drive.aspx has detailed the steps…
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