Create a survey (or a discussion board) in under 4 minutes in a modern SharePoint site
Have you recently migrated to SharePoint from SharePoint On-Premises and wondered how to create a new Discussion board list or…
Category: Troubleshooting
The Troubleshooter Mentality
When you think about any trouble you encounter with technology, maybe with your life; but, definitely with technology, there are…
List of Site Templates
Template ID Title GLOBAL#0 Global template STS#0 Team Site STS#1 Blank Site STS#2 Document Workspace MPS#0 Basic Meeting Workspace MPS#1…
Checking if a Service account has Replicate Directory Changes
If you have ever had to set up the User Profile Synchronization Service Connection to Active Directory, then you know…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Introduction to Building a SharePoint 2016 Home Lab
Introduction This introduction will cover a few of the key concepts we use throughout the book. For example, mapping drives,…
Introduction to Troubleshooting SharePoint
What you’re about to read, assuming you’re actually going to read the rest of this post, is also available on…
A little bit about PBSC vs HHSC (path based versus host named, or host header site collections)
Here’s a sample from chapter4 of my new book, Troubleshooting SharePoint Path based site collections are easily identifiable by the…
Reviewing Search History using PowerShell and Out-GridView
Have you ever wanted to be able to review the history of your search service application in a way where…
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…
Ports Used by SharePoint
Protocol Port Usage Comment TCP 80 http Client to SharePoint web server traffic (SharePoint – Office Web Apps communication) TCP…
Troubleshooting an issue
Russ Maxwell has written, another, totally, awesome script! This one will help you when you’re troubleshooting an issue. Here’s a…
Timer Jobs in SharePoint
Ever wonder what your SharePoint Servers are up to? Take a look at the timer jobs. Microsoft has a great…
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