Upgrade to Version 4 before Upgrading to UI Version 15
It is advisable to upgrade any sites that are running version 3\2007 mode in your SharePoint 2010 to version 4 (SP2010) before you attach…
Author: Stacy Simpkins
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Over the 10 Web App Limit? Consolidate!
How to move service applications back under the “Default SharePoint service app pool” Scenario: Somehow someone accidentally created a new application…
Configuring Web Analytics – the 2010 way
With SharePoint 2013, the web analytics service application is deprecated and removed; since, it is integrated into the new super…
OneDrive vs. OneDrive for Business, slightly explained over a cup of coffee.
OneDrive and OneDrive for business are personal storage locations. Both use the OneDrive Synch client side installer that gets added…
Creating the config db and central admin
To avoid the ugly/yucky GUID tails off the end of your Central Administration database, use this line of powershell and…
User is unable to checkout a document that previously was able
If you ever run across a scenario where a user advises (note: I did not say complains) that they are…
Powershell Version 3.0 Breaks 2010 SharePoint Shell
Not applicable to SharePoint 2013 If Powershell verions 3.0 is installed on your SharePoint 2010 server, the farm will become…
Retrieving job history over a period of time
$test = Get-SPWebApplication “http://2013app/” $myStartTime = “3/01/2014 12:30:00 AM” $myStopTime = “3/02/2014 3:30:00 AM” #GET ALL BETWEEN THAT TIME PERIOD…
3 ways to delete orphaned sites
Here are three ways to remove orphaned site collections in SharePoint 2013, 2010. and 2007. To remove orphaned site collections…
What to do when email is not syncing – Windows 8.1
Sometimes email stops synching due to password changes not synching amongst your various devices. The simple fix to this…
Sometimes you have to be forceful
When a solution was not correctly removed from a farm, features will be left behind, because they were not deactivated…
Save server resources, move sites under one web app, remove silos
Save server resources Each application pool requires 400 MB of Ram. When Multiple web applications exist uneccessarily, server resources are…
Exporting a WSP
Imagine you have a farm with a solution deployed to it; but, have lost the raw solution package and you…
Remove extended zones
This one-liner will remove the intranet zone, change intranet to internet, custom, extranet, according to what your needs require …
Can’t Connect to configuration database
Have you ever seen the error\message “Cannot connect to the configuration database” when attempting to open Central Administration? This message…
Missing Server side dependencies reference
So you’ve created your SharePoint development farm, least privileged it, and let some developers start using it’s features. Then you let…
Resetting the index – FAST 2010 Search
When you’ve determined that resetting the index for your FAST search farm is required, here are a couple things you…
Deployment XML for a FAST farm with two nodes and a SQL back end
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″ ?> <deployment comment=”FAST Search Server two node deployment example” xmlns=”http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch”> <instanceid>TheManCaveFastSearchServer</instanceid> <!– NOTE: Host names “fastserver1.contoso.com” and…
Fighting with a Fast install
Here is a good instruction set for a multi-node Fast farm: http://www.concurrency.com/blog/fast/ If you run into issues, make sure you…
Deployment.xml for Single Server Fast Farm
Note: has a BOM <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″ ?> <deployment version=”14″ modifiedBy=”MyDomainName\MyAccount” modifiedTime=”2014-01-29T15:31:00-06:00″ comment=”I’m about to give up” xmlns=”http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch” xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xsi:schemaLocation=”http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch…
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