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SharePoint Online Backdoor to OneDrive

Stacy SimpkinsMay 8, 2025May 8, 2025

Well, first of all, let me just say, that I think the title I chose for this post is, well,…

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SharePoint Administration

SCA (Site Collection Admin) Shortcuts synonymous with Site Admin

Stacy SimpkinsJanuary 19, 2024January 19, 2024

When you have the amazing opportunity to be a SCA at some business in the cloud, or on premise, in…

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SharePoint Administration Update

Post Setup and Configuration Wizard says successful yet status page says failed

Stacy SimpkinsMay 7, 2019November 13, 2019

Have you ever applied a cumulative update, CU, and the gray wizard, aka post setup configuration wizard or psconfiggui.exe, reports…

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Development Server Administration SharePoint Administration

Disable Loopback Check (DisableLoopbackCheck Dword 1)

Stacy SimpkinsApril 6, 2019November 13, 2019

If you ever encounter multiple prompts from a SharePoint server when trying to open a site, go to this location…

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Backing up site collection using backup-spsite and not seeing file grow
SharePoint Administration

Backing up site collection using backup-spsite and not seeing file grow

Stacy SimpkinsJanuary 19, 2019November 13, 2019

When running backup-spsite on a large site collection, say it’s greater than 20GB, you look at the backup directory and…

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SharePoint 2019 – What’s deprecated and What is TOTALLY removed?
SharePoint Administration

SharePoint 2019 – What’s deprecated and What is TOTALLY removed?

Stacy SimpkinsAugust 26, 2018November 13, 2019

It’s still too early to say for certain, what features will be deprecated and which features will be removed.  When…

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Clear Config Cache one server at a time
PowerShell SharePoint Administration Troubleshooting

Clear Config Cache one server at a time

Stacy SimpkinsAugust 6, 2018November 13, 2019

The script below will clear the config cache on each server.  It waits until all servers are ready and then…

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What account is the farm account and how in the @#$% do I change it?
Permissions PowerShell Security SharePoint Administration Troubleshooting

What account is the farm account and how in the @#$% do I change it?

Stacy SimpkinsJuly 8, 2018November 13, 2019

Here’s a quick and dirty way to find out the farm account   (Get-SPFarm).DefaultServiceAccount.Name If that account looks something like…

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Re-creating the SharePoint Web Services Site
IIS PowerShell SharePoint Administration Troubleshooting

Re-creating the SharePoint Web Services Site

Stacy SimpkinsJune 23, 2018November 13, 2019

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…

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Remove Server from farm
Distributed Cache PowerShell SharePoint Administration Update

Remove Server from farm

Stacy SimpkinsJune 16, 2018November 13, 2019

The best methods to remove a server from the farm are to either use the psconfig wizard or run Disconnect-SPconfigurationDatabase…

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Migrating a Search Service Application
PowerShell Search SharePoint Administration Troubleshooting

Migrating a Search Service Application

Stacy SimpkinsJune 13, 2018November 13, 2019

If you ever have to migrate a search service application from one farm to the next.  Do two things:  …

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Permissions Security SharePoint Administration Troubleshooting

SysKit’s Security Manager for SharePoint

Stacy SimpkinsMay 23, 2018November 13, 2019

Another great tool From the creators of SPDocKit, comes one of the best SharePoint security management tools yet to hit…

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SysKit nailed it right on the head when they called their new SharePoint Monitoring product, Insights!
Monitoring Solution Performance Security SharePoint Administration Troubleshooting

SysKit nailed it right on the head when they called their new SharePoint Monitoring product, Insights!

Stacy SimpkinsApril 28, 2018November 13, 2019

If you liked SPDocKit, you will absolutely love SysKit Insights! From the creators of SPDocKit, comes one of the best…

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Got Web.config Mods?  Site won’t start? App Pool starts and stops?
Performance PowerShell SharePoint Administration Troubleshooting

Got Web.config Mods? Site won’t start? App Pool starts and stops?

Stacy SimpkinsApril 28, 2018November 13, 2019

When your site wont start or is not loading properly there may be modifications to the web.config that have caused…

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SharePoint 2013 Service Applications with ability to add a prefix
PowerShell SharePoint Administration

SharePoint 2013 Service Applications with ability to add a prefix

Stacy SimpkinsMarch 29, 2018November 13, 2019

After you finish running this script, you’ll need to create the work management service application, app management service application, subscriptions…

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Creating or Re-Creating Managed Accounts (w/ Powershell)
PowerShell SharePoint Administration

Creating or Re-Creating Managed Accounts (w/ Powershell)

Stacy SimpkinsMarch 19, 2018November 13, 2019

When creating a farm using powershell, you need to create the managed accounts that your service applications will use.  Here’s…

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CU Updates, Big Farm, Lots of DB’s, Mounting Databases
Cu Patching PowerShell SharePoint Administration

CU Updates, Big Farm, Lots of DB’s, Mounting Databases

Stacy SimpkinsMarch 10, 2018November 13, 2019

Let’s say you have this ginormous farm with hundreds of databases and you want to update the farm to a…

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Creating a dev environment – Part 5
PowerShell SharePoint Administration

Creating a dev environment – Part 5

Stacy SimpkinsJanuary 16, 2018November 13, 2019

This video builds the WFE Distributed Cache Minimum Role server using the AutoSPInstaller.

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Creating a dev environment – Part 4
PowerShell SharePoint Administration

Creating a dev environment – Part 4

Stacy SimpkinsJanuary 16, 2018November 13, 2019

In this video we go over filling out the AutoSPInstaller, staging the bits on the SharePoint Application and Search Server,…

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Creating a Dev environment – Part 2
Hyper-V Administration Server Administration SharePoint Administration

Creating a Dev environment – Part 2

Stacy SimpkinsJanuary 15, 2018November 13, 2019

In this video I demonstrate getting the dev environment able to be opened using RDP connections.  Like all my videos,…

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