Programmatically modify SharePoint Group Members – add and subtract
If you’ve ever wanted to allow admins of your farm a quick way to add a user to a SharePoint…
Category: SharePoint Administration
Provisioning SharePoint 2016 Service Applications using Powershell
The Excel services service application has been removed from 2016 SharePoint and moved into the Office Online Server. You’ll need…
Provisioning Central Admin on SharePoint 2016 with Powershell
The only difference between the powershell for 2013 and the powershell for 2016, when it comes to provisioning Central admin’s…
How to setup Forms Based Authentication (FBA)
This post is adapted from a blog, that I consider the supreme authority for FBA configuration, written by Chris Coulson,…
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…
Query/Get/Search the event log of all servers in a farm for a reboot or any specific event ID
Have you ever wanted to find out a list of various event ID’s and output them to a file? Have…
Migrating a SQL Server Reporting Service Application
We were recently faced with this scenario: Migrate a SQL Server Reporting Service from SharePoint 2013 On-Premise to another On-Premise…
Install Subscription Settings Service using Powershell – SharePoint 2013, 2016
If you ever find yourself needing to install the subscription settings service application in SharePoint, here’s some kickass powershell that…
Provisioning Central Admin Config DB, Content DB, and then SharePoint Service Apps for SharePoint 2013 Foundation
Have you ever had a blast from the past and looked for a script on configuring SharePoint 2013 Foundation? …
Ports Used by SharePoint
Protocol Port Usage Comment TCP 80 http Client to SharePoint web server traffic (SharePoint – Office Web Apps communication) TCP…
Apply CU’s to SharePoint 2016 with PowerShell
Happy SharePoint Saturday everyone!!! <– (I must’ve written this on a Saturday on my break at work) This script is…
Creating a Search Service Application and topology with PowerShell in SharePoint 2013 or 2016 – IN A NEW APP POOL
You can use this code to create a new application pool named “SharePoint Search Service Application Pool”, and then create…
Provisioning a SharePoint 2013 Farm SharePoint Service Applications
This is the SharePoint 2013 version of the post I put up a few hours ago about SharePoint 2010 service…
Provisioning a SharePoint 2010 Farm SharePoint Service Applications
This post takes after the post I had written in 2013. And now that I’m older and wiser, I know…
Timer Jobs in SharePoint
Ever wonder what your SharePoint Servers are up to? Take a look at the timer jobs. Microsoft has a great…
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…
Applying CU’s to SharePoint 2013 Servers with PowerShell
Here’s a very cool script that is a huge time saver for applying the cumulative updates to SharePoint. To use…
Distributed Cache, re-blog-gurgitation, good posts.
This post is just a collection of some great resources on distributed cache. I didn’t write them and am just…
A few great SharePoint references
I’m sorry that this week’s blog is just a list of my thoughts on a few really great tools that…
People picker with multiple Forests
I recently was doing some work for an IT department managed by Homer Simpson and poor Homer reported that the…
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