Creating a Dev environment – Part 2
In this video I demonstrate getting the dev environment able to be opened using RDP connections. Like all my videos, I show some common issues encountered and how to overcome those issues.
Creating a Dev environment part 1
posted in: Hyper-V Administration, SharePoint Administration
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In this video, I demonstrate creating a domain, creating SharePoint service accounts, and overcoming a couple of common issues with joining a server to the newly created domain. the environment is based in hyper-V; but, you could do it in … Read More
Introduction to Building a SharePoint 2016 Home Lab
posted in: SharePoint Administration, Troubleshooting
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Introduction This introduction will cover a few of the key concepts we use throughout the book. For example, mapping drives, pinning items to your start menu, turning off the User account control prompts in the home lab (not in production), … Read More
Introduction to Troubleshooting SharePoint
posted in: Troubleshooting
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What you’re about to read, assuming you’re actually going to read the rest of this post, is also available on Amazon. Amazon has the Index of this book too! Reading the Index of a book is a great way to … Read More
Creating a VPN connection with a Namecheap.com hosted domain
posted in: Desktop Administration, Server Administration
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Do you want to be able to connect into your home server from anywhere that you have an internet connection and from anyone’s PC? You’ll need admin rights on the PC so that you can create a VPN connection after … Read More
Programmatically modify SharePoint Group Members – add and subtract
posted in: FBA, PowerShell, SharePoint Administration
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If you’ve ever wanted to allow admins of your farm a quick way to add a user to a SharePoint group, or a few groups, this is the script to do it. Now, this script assumes you have a … Read More
A little bit about PBSC vs HHSC (path based versus host named, or host header site collections)
posted in: HNSC, PowerShell, Troubleshooting
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Here’s a sample from chapter4 of my new book, Troubleshooting SharePoint Path based site collections are easily identifiable by the slash that they have in front of the URL on the view all site collections page in Central Administration. Figure … Read More
Reviewing Search History using PowerShell and Out-GridView
posted in: PowerShell, Search, Troubleshooting
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Have you ever wanted to be able to review the history of your search service application in a way where you could export it to excel, or easily filter it based on criteria that you specify? This handy-dandy script, … Read More
Provisioning SharePoint 2016 Service Applications using Powershell
posted in: PowerShell, Search, SharePoint Administration, Uncategorized
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The Excel services service application has been removed from 2016 SharePoint and moved into the Office Online Server. You’ll need to spin up the Office Online Server on a separated server and bind it to your SharePoint farm if you … Read More
Provisioning Central Admin on SharePoint 2016 with Powershell
posted in: PowerShell, SharePoint Administration
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The only difference between the powershell for 2013 and the powershell for 2016, when it comes to provisioning Central admin’s config database and the web application content database is one little parameter: -localserverrole If you’ve patched the farm … Read More
Create HNSC with Powershell and set some settings
posted in: HNSC, PowerShell
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This script creates a host named site collection in a web app that is named SharePoint – HNSC. You can modify it to your hearts content. If you replace Domain with the name of your domain, e.g. say you … Read More
How to setup Forms Based Authentication (FBA)
posted in: FBA, SharePoint Administration
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This post is adapted from a blog, that I consider the supreme authority for FBA configuration, written by Chris Coulson, Read the supreme authority here for 2016 and here for 2013 2010 – See the 2013 steps, make sure the … Read More
Modify Central Admin Title
posted in: Development
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Wictor Wilen wrote an awesome post on this at this URL: http://www.wictorwilen.se/sharepoint-2013-central-administration-productivity-tip The code is as follows:
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asnp microsoft.sharepoint.powershell $ca = Get-SPWebApplication -IncludeCentralAdministration | ?{$_.IsAdministrationWebApplication -eq $true} $ca.SuiteBarBrandingElementHtml = "<div class='ms-core-brandingText'>Central Admin: FarmA Production</div>" $ca.Update() |
All you need to do for your farm is modify “Central Admin: FarmA Production” to whatever you want your farm to … Read More
Running Distributed Cache in a least privileged way
posted in: PowerShell, Server Administration, SharePoint Administration
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In a previous post, I mentioned the steps to least privilege the Distributed Cache; but, I really never explained the steps, I only gave the powershell. In this post, I’ll explain the steps and provide the powershell for each of … Read More
Query/Get/Search the event log of all servers in a farm for a reboot or any specific event ID
posted in: PowerShell, SharePoint Administration, Troubleshooting
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Have you ever wanted to find out a list of various event ID’s and output them to a file? Have you ever wanted to know about resource exhaustion events, Event ID 2004? Have you wanted to know when your server … Read More
Migrating a SQL Server Reporting Service Application
posted in: SharePoint Administration, SQL
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We were recently faced with this scenario: Migrate a SQL Server Reporting Service from SharePoint 2013 On-Premise to another On-Premise farm running in your datacenter or in either Azure or AWS. It does not matter which one, it only matters that … Read More
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