Google to distrust Symantec (err Verisign 20 year old root cert)
Can you believe there are certs out there that are almost old enough to drink in the 50 states? Amazing! …
When to re-provision the Security Token Service Application in SharePoint
If you’re seeing entries like this in your logs, you might want to re-provision the SecurityTokenServiceApplicationPool 08/18/2018 12:54:02.49 w3wp.exe (0x3624)…
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 SharePoint Recycle Bin using PowerShell
For one Site collection Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $SPSiteurl = “<Site URL>” $spsite = Get-SPSite -Identity $SPSiteurl $files =$spsite.Recyclebin |?{$_.ItemState -eq…
Clear Config Cache one server at a time
The script below will clear the config cache on each server. It waits until all servers are ready and then…
AutoSPInstaller Review
The auto SP Installer download used to include the folder structure. That is no longer the case. Let’s say…
What account is the farm account and how in the @#$% 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…
Register-SPWorkflowService : Failed to query the OAuth S2S metadata endpoint at URI ‘what the @#@$@##?’ is going on
If you have followed the instructions on this site to create the workflow management service and you can see the…
TelNet not working
If you’re trying to test connectivity between servers on a specific port and you go to use TelNet and receive…
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…
Who’s been logging into machines in my domain? And when were the accounts created?
If you’re looking to find out who has been logging into machines in your domain, this powershell will tell you…
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…
Could not load type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint.Marketplace.corporatecuratedgallery
Imagine that you are getting this message:(or, maybe you don’t have to imagine, because you are actually getting it) Sorry,…
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…
Modifying a SharePoint 2013 or 2016 Search Topology – After Index Reset
The following blog post works best with an empty index. In other words, it works best before your first full…
Fixing degraded search index replica’s in a ginormous search farm
Credit for this post: Scott Fawley, SharePoint Guru Here is a handy script that MS sent while troubleshooting a Search…
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