The auto SP Installer download used to include the folder structure. That is no longer the case. Let’s say you wanted to install SharePoint 2019, you need to create a directory at the same level as your AutoSPInstaller Directory, … Read More
If you’re trying to test connectivity between servers on a specific port and you go to use TelNet and receive a nasty little message that tells you that “telnet is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program … Read More
The following blog post is just a re-blogurtation of this post https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16067.nltest-to-test-the-trust-relationship-between-a-workstation-and-domain.aspx 1.NLTEST can be used to show this trust relationship. PS C:\> nltest /trusted_domains List of domain trusts: 0: GS gs.com (NT 5) (Direct Outbound) (Direct Inbound) ( … Read More
If you’re looking to find out who has been logging into machines in your domain, this powershell will tell you just that. You could change out the line that finds the last logon date where it is greater than the … Read More
To move the managed metadata database, take a copy only backup of it from your SQL server and then restore from files in your new SQL server. I’ll write a future post on that and put a link to it … Read More
Some things to keep in mind: The account you run this with needs to be a member of either Local Administrators or Remote Desktop Users, and needs to be a member of SharePoint Shell admin access – assuming you want … Read More
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.
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
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
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
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 -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures |
Do not collect $200, do not pass go. One way to quickly tell if you’re going to … Read More
Recently while editing the preferred search center for MySites, there was a message that the user profile service was not accessible and attempts to save the setting, did not succeed. No fail message was recieved, the screen just closed. … Read More
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$fileage = 30 $files = Get-ChildItem 'C:\PathToFiles\subdirectory' -Recurse -Include *.log $files += Get-ChildItem 'E:\AnotherDriveAndPath\Subdirectory' -Recurse -Include *.log ForEach ($File in $Files){ IF(((Get-Date) - $File.lastwritetime).Days -ge $fileage) { Remove-Item $File } } |
If you only want one week, change the file age to 7. Or, if you want 90 days, then change it to 90. The paths to clean specified in this example are meant to be changes and … Read More
If you ever wanted a list of what features are installed in your server, you can: use this command from an administrative powershell to see the installed windows features:
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Get-Windowsfeatures |
Pipe it to a file if you … Read More
If you haven’t incorporated Host Named Site Collections into your SharePoint 2010, you should definitely look into that resource saver. In the meantime, using URL re-writes is one way to give users a vanity url that will take them to their … Read More
Sorry about the brevity of this post; but, it has been a looooong week. Next week we’ll discuss how Beaver’s Oil, a fictitious oil company, creates a backup of a host named site collection and restores it. The week after that … Read More
To avoid the ugly/yucky GUID tails off the end of your Central Administration database, use this line of powershell and these steps:
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New-SPConfigurationDatabase -DatabaseName SharePoint_Config -DatabaseServer SharePointSQL -AdministrationContentDatabaseName SharePoint_Admin_Content |
(The above oneliner is taken from page 63 of “Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration“, by Shane … Read More
Here are three ways to remove orphaned site collections in SharePoint 2013, 2010. and 2007. To remove orphaned site collections in SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, or possibly in SharePoint 2013, use one of the applicable method: 1. Detach the content DB and … Read More