Building a 2013 farm – Joining in servers – avoiding getting distributed cache on all servers
When building a farm, use powershell to create your central adminstration site database, configuration database, and all other databases. This…
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Reset your index with PowerShell
As this great blog on repairing the SharePoint 2013 On-Prem reset index stuck resolution, states it’s best to reset your…
Working with paused search index
When you want to know what search is up to, check it out with the management shell and these handy…
Creating a Search Service Application and topology with PowerShell in SharePoint 2013 or 2016 – IN SAME APP POOL AS OTHER SERVICE APPLICATIONS
You can use this script to create a new search service application after you have removed your search service application. …
Documenting email enabled lists and troubleshooting drop folder
this post is a partial repeat of this post When you’re getting ready to migrate 2010 content over to 2013…
Removing search service application and proxy
Scenario: You’ve determined that you don’t want to modify the search service application proxy settings under service connections under web…
Unable to retrieve topology component health states. This may be because the admin component is not up and running
Scenario: Search results are giving you “Sorry, something went wrong” from any site. When you open the search service application and…
FluentPro Numbering System for Project Server
If you dont have an autonumbering system for your projects on project server, or are looking for a better one…
Look who’s using Office 365
If you think Office 365 is a hobbyist environment or some sort of not-ready-for-enterprise application, think again!!! Office 365 is…
Office 365 RoadMap and a couple easy ways to sign into your Portal
Merry Christmas to you and yours!! The Office 365 RoadMap is your onestop location for all the new stuff that…
What Servers and Who is connected to your SharePoint back end SQL
To see which accounts are connected to your SharePoint SQL Server: 1. Login to the SQL server via SQL…
Extracting Lists and Libraries that have email enabled.
To get your arms around the lists and libraries in your farm, run this for each web application. Information below…
Installing workflow manager
Workflow manager is needed to support SharePoint 2013 workflows and their features, as well as Project Server 2013. Download the…
Working with Distributed Cache
“The Distributed Cache service provides in-memory caching services to several features in SharePoint Server 2013. Some of the features that…
Set Central Admin to run on SSL
This is a watered down version of many posts out there on this, an old; but good, topic. Here’s a…
Converting 2010 Project Server to 2013 Project Server
Adapted from material presented at this URL – http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Project/2014/PC319 Tested and proven Some things to watch out for, permissions on…
Install Project Server 2013
Run Setup.exe, uncheck box to run psconfig wizard, repeat on other servers in farm. Run psconfig on all servers in…
HNSC is recommended best practice
Straight from Microsoft – USE HOST NAMED SITE COLLECTIONS – recommended in SharePoint 2010 and preferred in SharePoint 2013 Main…
Converting the 2013 classic web app to claims
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Creating a classic authentication based web application to restore 2010 non-claims DB’s into
############################################################## ##Code below creates classic based web app host named site collection ############################################################## $applicationPool = “HNSCTempU Classic ApplicationPool” $ServiceAcct =…