Disable Loopback Check (DisableLoopbackCheck Dword 1)
If you ever encounter multiple prompts from a SharePoint server when trying to open a site, go to this location…
Category: Server Administration
AutoSPInstaller Review
The auto SP Installer download used to include the folder structure. That is no longer the case. Let’s say…
TelNet not working
If you’re trying to test connectivity between servers on a specific port and you go to use TelNet and receive…
Got Trusts? Need Info about the Domain and it’s trust relationships
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…
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…
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…
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…
Creating a Dev environment – Part 2
In this video I demonstrate getting the dev environment able to be opened using RDP connections. Like all my videos,…
Creating a VPN connection with a Namecheap.com hosted domain
Do you want to be able to connect into your home server from anywhere that you have an internet connection…
Running Distributed Cache in a least privileged way
In a previous post, I mentioned the steps to least privilege the Distributed Cache; but, I really never explained the…
Clearing the config cache with Powershell
Clearing the SharePoint Config cache is no longer a manual task and is easier than clearing the saliva out of…
Reset IIS on all servers in a farm
How many times have you been in the middle of a series of updates to your farm, or at the…
Security Patches and SharePoint
If you’re ever looking through your event logs and you run across Event ID 2137, definitely heed its advice and…
User profile service is not accessible
Recently while editing the preferred search center for MySites, there was a message that the user profile service was not…
Script to clean out log files, or any files in a directory based on date
$fileage = 30 $files = Get-ChildItem ‘C:\PathToFiles\subdirectory’ -Recurse -Include *.log $files += Get-ChildItem ‘E:\AnotherDriveAndPath\Subdirectory’ -Recurse -Include *.log ForEach ($File in…
Windows features and DISM
If you ever wanted a list of what features are installed in your server, you can: use this command…
Give users a vanity url in 2010 via URL re-write and redirect http to https on a short name even
If you haven’t incorporated Host Named Site Collections into your SharePoint 2010, you should definitely look into that resource saver.…
Make it a SharePoint Shell
Sorry about the brevity of this post; but, it has been a looooong week. Next week we’ll discuss how Beaver’s…
Creating the config db and central admin
To avoid the ugly/yucky GUID tails off the end of your Central Administration database, use this line of powershell and…
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