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…
Category: PowerShell
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…
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 …
Move logging of the operating system drive and right size SharePoint 2013 intranet portal
Here are your steps and you have to do them on each server in the farm: Make sure the…
Avoiding the Confirm prompt in scripts
There are two ways you can suppress confirmation from a script or console: 1. Set the automatic variable to ‘None’…
Customizing your PowerShell window colors
The information about the settings for your PowerShell’s shell colors are stored in the object model at: System.Management.Automation.Internal.Host.InternalHost and at System.Management.Automation.Internal.Host.InternalHostRawUserInterface under…
Backing up a SharePoint 2010 farm
here are a lot of good scripts out there to use for backing up your SharePoint. This one is one…
Merry Christmas!!!
I hope you’ve enjoyed reading this blog over the last year and that you’ve had a great year in SharePoint.…
Setting up your farm for optimal performance – Super User and Super Reader Accounts
It is important to configure the super user and super reader accounts for your SharePoint farm in order to optimize…
Exporting and Importing just a list or a library
If the goal is to import just one list or one library there are a couple ways you can accomplish…
Provisioning a SharePoint 2010 Farm Service Applications using a PowerShell Script
This video is best if watched in Full Screen modeand any references to completed services should really say, the powershell script…
Migrating to Windows 2008 R2 from a 32-bit (x86) Server
Overview Since Windows 2008 R2 only comes in a 64-bit flavor it is impossible to perform an in place…
Convert a classic based authentication SharePoint 2010 web application into a claims based web application that will use forms based authentication
This blog post attempts to bridge the gap between creating a claims based authentication web application versus converting a classic…
Enable and Use Developer Dashboard to see how your page loads and view metrics.
Pre-requisites: Site-collection administrator Follow these steps, or ask your admin, to enable the developer dashboard in on demand mode: (green-can…
Backup and Restore vs Export and Import
Here are a couple ways to copy content around in SharePoint: Backup-SPSite and Restore-SPSite and Export-SPWeb and Import-SPWeb A couple…
Searching through ULS logs for a correllation ID (Merge-SPlogFile)
As tempting as it is to start opening ULS logs that surround the time of your correlation ID, you should…
Help to avoid and partially clean up missing server side dependencies
Orphaned items within sites can cause all sorts of issues: Missing Server side dependencies, Sites not replicating correctly amongst farm…
Connect a server to a farm using powershell – SharePoint 2013 or 2010
Log onto each additional server that you wish to join into the farm Open the ”SharePoint 2010 Management Shell” administratively…
Create a SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013 two server farm using Powershell
Check out the reference for this post: http://blog.falchionconsulting.com/index.php/2009/10/sharepoint-2010-psconfig-and-powershell/ It contains what follows in script format; which is much easier…
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