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
If you’re ever looking through your event logs and you run across Event ID 2137, definitely heed its advice and run
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PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures -cmd secureresources -cmd services -install |
Do not collect $200, do not pass go. One way to quickly tell if you’re going to … Read More
File this one in the “Why do they always blame everything on SharePoint, when SharePoint doesn’t work” Today I encountered a situation in one of my home lab domains that prevented my SQL machine from seeing the domain, and … Read More
Have you ever ran into the problem where your Hyper-V machines were taking up too much space on your C:\ Drive (or any drive for that matter)? If you said yes, maybe, or even no, well then this post might … Read More
I’m writing this post today; because The field with Id {2de1df7b-48e1-4c8e-be0f-f00e504b9948} defined in feature {6e1e5426-2ebd-4871-8027-c5ca86371ead} was found in the current site collection or in a sub-site. this was what happened, and if you don’t want to know the history behind … Read More
Running SharePoint sites on Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is critical to information security and SharePoint Central Administration is no exception. You can configure central admin to run on SSL by creating a CName record in DNS that resolves to your … Read More
I can’t stress enough, how much of a mistake it is to run up a Workflow Management farm for 2013 SharePoint on the same servers as your SharePoint and store the databases in the same instance as your SharePoint databases. … Read More
Normally when you install your farm the Search Web parts features get activated during that install. This was true for the case that this blog post is about. 3 things you should know about this case: We had\have third party … Read More
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