Removing search service application and proxy
Scenario: You’ve determined that you don’t want to modify the search service application proxy settings under service connections under web…
Category: Troubleshooting
Unable to retrieve topology component health states. This may be because the admin component is not up and running
Scenario: Search results are giving you “Sorry, something went wrong” from any site. When you open the search service application and…
What Servers and Who is connected to your SharePoint back end SQL
To see which accounts are connected to your SharePoint SQL Server: 1. Login to the SQL server via SQL…
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…
Sometimes Windows Server 2012 will not let pre-requisite installer install
When server 2012 will not allow pre-requisite to run, due to the ASP.NET 3.5 or 4.5, there are two things…
Things that block installs from the command line and\or GUI
These are things that can serve as pain points when installing from the command line: 1. orphaned Central Admin site in…
Can’t Connect to configuration database
Have you ever seen the error\message “Cannot connect to the configuration database” when attempting to open Central Administration? This message…
Missing Server side dependencies reference
So you’ve created your SharePoint development farm, least privileged it, and let some developers start using it’s features. Then you let…
Resetting the index – FAST 2010 Search
When you’ve determined that resetting the index for your FAST search farm is required, here are a couple things you…
Farm is failing to create a new web application on all servers in the farm IIS
If you ever run into a situation where your farm suddenly fails to create the web application on all front…
An error has occurred after removal of an extended zone
Let’s say you’ve applied the advice from unextending an extended zone and are now either getting a blank page after re-using the the…
Solution wont deploy, error in web.config, and avoiding this
If you ever run into an issue where you or one of your fellow admins went to deploy a solution using…
Backup and Restore vs Export and Import
Here are a couple ways to copy content around in SharePoint: Backup-SPSite and Restore-SPSite and Export-SPWeb and Import-SPWeb A couple…
Searching through ULS logs for a correllation ID (Merge-SPlogFile)
As tempting as it is to start opening ULS logs that surround the time of your correlation ID, you should…
Help to avoid and partially clean up missing server side dependencies
Orphaned items within sites can cause all sorts of issues: Missing Server side dependencies, Sites not replicating correctly amongst farm…
Searching through a ULS log
Here are a few tips to use when searching through a ULS log for errors and/or correlation ID’s is coming…
Can’t Save site as a template – getting error about the first list; albeit announcements or some other custom list that was created.
If you’re trying to save a site as a template, so that you can use it in a workflow, (e.g for…
SharePoint Virtual Labs and SP 2010 vs 2013
Sorry to be blogurgitating this week. Here’s a really good technet site with a load of virtual labs: SharePoint Server…
Secure Store throwing error that can not contact…
If you are receiving an error that reads, an error has occurred, contact your admin, and if you’ve already contacted…
Configuring User Profile Service, Starting Synch, and Creating SharePoint Service Applications for SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013
First off, I’d just like to apologize to anyone who used this before it was edited and received an over-privileged…
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