This is the SharePoint 2013 version of the post I put up a few hours ago about SharePoint 2010 service applications. The database names are still hard-coded. Please, feel free to take this and make it better by creating variables … Read More
This post takes after the post I had written in 2013. And now that I’m older and wiser, I know better than rolling up search inside the same IIS application pool as the rest of the SharePoint Service Applications. The … Read More
Ever wonder what your SharePoint Servers are up to? Take a look at the timer jobs. Microsoft has a great reference at this location on technet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678870.aspx It is sorted by name and I wanted to see it sorted by … Read More
No more typing in Passwords When using Keepass to keep track of your passwords, you; not only, never have to type them into a browser again; but, you also will be much, much safer. Keepass sends your user name and … Read More
If you want to get into: Run this command on the run bar or from a command line Accessibility Controls access.cpl Accessibility Wizard accwiz Add Hardware Wizard hdwwiz.cpl Add/Remove Programs appwiz.cpl Administrative Tools control admintools Adobe Acrobat (if installed) acrobat … Read More
Clearing the SharePoint Config cache is no longer a manual task and is easier than clearing the saliva out of a baritone. First of all, thank you to Mickey Jervin, Nick Hobbs, Dwayne Selsig, and most importanty Stephen Swinney, the … Read More
How many times have you been in the middle of a series of updates to your farm, or at the end of an update, or maybe trying to resolve an issue with the magic of IIS reset and felt the … Read More
Here’s a very cool script that is a huge time saver for applying the cumulative updates to SharePoint. To use it, just copy the code below into a text file and save that file as a .ps1 file. (e.g. C:\UpdateFolder\CUInstall.ps1) … Read More
What follows on this page is adapted and taken almost directly from this Microsoft Technet post and just formatted into a table The database names are what will happen if you use the psconfig wizard to create a 2013 farm
This post is just a collection of some great resources on distributed cache. I didn’t write them and am just re-blogurgitating. These are my favorite posts on the subject: How to patch the Distributed Cache in SharePoint 2013 – … Read More
Today I ran into the old “cant install SQL, your server needs 3.5 Framework error.” And for a few minutes I squirmed a bit For example, after downloading the exe for the .Net Framework and forgetting that it is … Read More
I’m sorry that this week’s blog is just a list of my thoughts on a few really great tools that I had absolutely nothing to do with; but, love to use and am very thankful that these people have written … Read More
I recently was doing some work for an IT department managed by Homer Simpson and poor Homer reported that the People pickers on various lists were not pulling in users from the springfield.com forest. They were coming in no problem … Read More
Have you ever wanted to know how many people are connected to your SharePoint without downloading any program? Well, if you answered yes, then you are in luck. This post will tell you exactly how to do that in a … Read More
Correct order Make sure to provision the service in the correct steps (start ups service, create the service app, start sync service, configure sync inside service app, run full sync(s)) Make sure that the identity (account) that the web application … Read More
Recently I faced an issue that I created for myself when attempting to convert a path based site collection (PBSC) to a host named site collection (HNSC) The situation was such that my PBSC was named https://portal.contoso.com and it … Read More