How to provision User Profile Service and avoid stuck on starting
Correct order Make sure to provision the service in the correct steps (start ups service, create the service app, start…
Category: SharePoint Administration
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…
The field with Id {2de1df7b-48e1-4c8e-be0f-f00e504b9948} defined in feature {6e1e5426-2ebd-4871-8027-c5ca86371ead} was found in the current site collection or in a subsite
I’m writing this post today; because The field with Id {2de1df7b-48e1-4c8e-be0f-f00e504b9948} defined in feature {6e1e5426-2ebd-4871-8027-c5ca86371ead} was found in the current…
Removing Workflow Manager from your Production SharePoint
I can’t stress enough, how much of a mistake it is to run up a Workflow Management farm for 2013…
SharePoint Updates, Ikea Furniture, and Plastic model Airplanes (e.g. read the instructions)
Yesterday when running the Post setup configuration executable (psconfig.exe) I encountered the following happy-happy joy-joy moments. I hadn’t created the…
Service connection points are mandatory in SharePoint 2016
Public service announcement : This is not true any longer, was only true when working with Beta2 and upgrading to…
SharePoint 2016 Release Candidate is running wild!
The SharePoint 2016 Release candidate has been released from it’s pen over there in Redmond. No need to uninstall…
January CU breaks stuff and false alarms
If you work at a company that mandates Microsoft Security patches get installed on all servers, like some major health…
Getting Distributed Cache started on SharePoint 2016 Beta 2
First of all I’d like to thank mvan for the post located here: http://www.sharepointconsultant.ch/2013/03/07/adding-a-local-sharepoint-2013-development-server-as-a-cache-host-to-appfabrics-cache-cluster/ please read this before continuing, as…
“There are no products affected by this package installed on this system.”
Grey wizard or PSconfig Sometimes when your farm gets out of wack, as SharePoint farms with multiple admins tend to…
A few really great places to start with PowerShell and SharePoint
Learn PowerShell in a month of lunches Don Jones you tube channel and a smart TV – https://www.youtube.com/user/powershelldon queue them…
Adding additional distributed cache hosts
Here’s one successful method of adding an additional distributed cache host to a cache host cluster. It’s optional to perform…
Metalogix Content Matrix, Storage Point, File Share Librarian, and Replicator
If you need to migrate from SharePoint 2007 to 2013, Metalogix Content Matrix looks like a great way to accomplish…
SharePoint Managment Shell via remote session
You can run a SharePoint Management Shell remotely with the following lines of powershell $Remotesession = New-PSSession -computername “MY_SPServer_Name_Goes_Here” -Authentication…
A few SharePoint shortcuts
The purpose of this post is to provide the SharePoint administrator and Site Admin with portions of a URL that…
Rolling out Central Admin and the Config Database and all the assoicated features
Here’s an oldy but a goody, how to get your Central Admin and Config Databases created without using the gray…
Building a 2013 farm – Joining in servers – avoiding getting distributed cache on all servers
When building a farm, use powershell to create your central adminstration site database, configuration database, and all other databases. This…
Extracting Lists and Libraries that have email enabled.
To get your arms around the lists and libraries in your farm, run this for each web application. Information below…
Working with Distributed Cache
“The Distributed Cache service provides in-memory caching services to several features in SharePoint Server 2013. Some of the features that…
Set Central Admin to run on SSL
This is a watered down version of many posts out there on this, an old; but good, topic. Here’s a…
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