Turn off Publishing Infrastructure before Migrating from On-Premises to the M365 Cloud
Having classic publishing activated in thousands of site collections in your tenant WILL slow down your network. M365 does not…
Category: PowerShell
Checking if a Service account has Replicate Directory Changes
If you have ever had to set up the User Profile Synchronization Service Connection to Active Directory, then you know…
Clear Config Cache one server at a time
The script below will clear the config cache on each server. It waits until all servers are ready and then…
What account is the farm account and how in the @#$% do I change it?
Here’s a quick and dirty way to find out the farm account (Get-SPFarm).DefaultServiceAccount.Name If that account looks something like…
Re-creating the SharePoint Web Services Site
https://blogs.msmvps.com/haarongonzalez/how-to-restore-the-sharepoint-web-services-iis-web-site-if-accidently-deleted/ The above blog post explains that it is possible to, erroneously, remove the SharePoint Services website from the file…
Remove Server from farm
The best methods to remove a server from the farm are to either use the psconfig wizard or run Disconnect-SPconfigurationDatabase…
Migrating a Search Service Application
If you ever have to migrate a search service application from one farm to the next. Do two things: …
Who’s been logging into machines in my domain? And when were the accounts created?
If you’re looking to find out who has been logging into machines in your domain, this powershell will tell you…
Could not load type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Marketplace.corporatecuratedgallery
Imagine that you are getting this message:(or, maybe you don’t have to imagine, because you are actually getting it) Sorry,…
Got Web.config Mods? Site won’t start? App Pool starts and stops?
When your site wont start or is not loading properly there may be modifications to the web.config that have caused…
Modifying a SharePoint 2013 or 2016 Search Topology – After Index Reset
The following blog post works best with an empty index. In other words, it works best before your first full…
Fixing degraded search index replica’s in a ginormous search farm
Credit for this post: Scott Fawley, SharePoint Guru Here is a handy script that MS sent while troubleshooting a Search…
SharePoint 2013 Service Applications with ability to add a prefix
After you finish running this script, you’ll need to create the work management service application, app management service application, subscriptions…
Migrating a Managed MetaData database
To move the managed metadata database, take a copy only backup of it from your SQL server and then restore…
Creating or Re-Creating Managed Accounts (w/ Powershell)
When creating a farm using powershell, you need to create the managed accounts that your service applications will use. Here’s…
CU Updates, Big Farm, Lots of DB’s, Mounting Databases
Let’s say you have this ginormous farm with hundreds of databases and you want to update the farm to a…
HNSC creation overview (how to create host named site collections)
Here’s another blog post on how to create Host Named Site Collections. NOTE THIS IS NOT THE BEST RECOMMENDED APPROACH…
Disable Minimal Download Strategy (MDS) in all sites and sub-sites in a web application
This is the powershell to disable MDS in all sites and sub-sites within a web application $webApp = Get-SPWebApplication…
Testing remote connectivity for PowerShell
Some things to keep in mind: The account you run this with needs to be a member of either Local…
Configuring SharePoint for Apps, Subscription Settings, and Access 2013 Services
App Management and Subscription Settings High-level steps: Create a forward lookup zone Create a web application (so that IIS will…