SCA (Site Collection Admin) Shortcuts synonymous with Site Admin
When you have the amazing opportunity to be a SCA at some business in the cloud, or on premise, in…
Category: SharePoint Administration
Post Setup and Configuration Wizard says successful yet status page says failed
Have you ever applied a cumulative update, CU, and the gray wizard, aka post setup configuration wizard or psconfiggui.exe, reports…
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…
Backing up site collection using backup-spsite and not seeing file grow
When running backup-spsite on a large site collection, say it’s greater than 20GB, you look at the backup directory and…
SharePoint 2019 – What’s deprecated and What is TOTALLY removed?
It’s still too early to say for certain, what features will be deprecated and which features will be removed. When…
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: …
SysKit’s Security Manager for SharePoint
Another great tool From the creators of SPDocKit, comes one of the best SharePoint security management tools yet to hit…
SysKit nailed it right on the head when they called their new SharePoint Monitoring product, Insights!
If you liked SPDocKit, you will absolutely love SysKit Insights! From the creators of SPDocKit, comes one of the best…
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…
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…
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…
Creating a dev environment – Part 5
This video builds the WFE Distributed Cache Minimum Role server using the AutoSPInstaller.
Creating a dev environment – Part 4
In this video we go over filling out the AutoSPInstaller, staging the bits on the SharePoint Application and Search Server,…
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 Dev environment part 1
In this video, I demonstrate creating a domain, creating SharePoint service accounts, and overcoming a couple of common issues with…
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