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Create SQL Server Alias using PowerShell
As per SharePoint best practices for SQL Server, SQL Alias needs to be created on all SharePoint Servers in the farm. Creating SQL Alias for SharePoint through UI, is already explained in my another...
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SharePoint Knowledge Transfer Check-List
In a SharePoint architect/administrator's life, Its quite a common task to takeover existing SharePoint environments at the time of Job/Role switch. From my experience, Here is the check list to help...
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"Open with Explorer" Greyed out in SharePoint 2013?
Open with Windows Explorer is Disabled in SharePoint 2013 or in SharePoint 2010? Well, Open with Explorer works only in 32 bit version of Internet Explorer! It may not work on Chrome or Firefox....
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Export-Import All Lists and Libraries from One Site to Another using PowerShell
Requirement is to copy and paste all SharePoint lists and libraries from one site to another. While "Save List as a Template" is one approach, it doesn't work for larger lists and its time consuming....
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SharePoint 2013 Warmup Scripts using PowerShell
What is "Warmup Scripts" in SharePoint?By default IIS applications pools recycles every night to keep clean memory space -Â Every time during IIS Application pool recycles - Asp.net assemblies to be...
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How to Find Which SharePoint Server You are Hitting
To troubleshoot a issue in SharePoint environment, I had to figure out from which SharePoint server I'm getting the page response. How to check which SharePoint web front end is serving your requests?...
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Restore-SPSite Error on Backup-Restore Between Different Farms
When I was trying to backup restore between SharePoint DEV and QA Farms got this error message: Restore-SPSite : <nativehr>0x80070003</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>Root...
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Office Web Apps Previews Not Working in SharePoint 2013?
During a SharePoint 2013 deployment, integrated Office Web Apps 2013 with SharePoint 2013 with my implementation guide How to Install and Configure Office Web Apps 2013 for SharePoint 2013. Everything...
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Disable UAC in Windows Server 2012 - SharePoint Best Practice
In SharePoint 2013 farms on Windows Server 2012, its annoying that we've to choose "Run as Administrator" every time when opening Central Administration, Command Prompt, SharePoint Management Shell,...
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The installation of this package failed - Error in SharePoint 2013 Hotfix...
During a planned quarterly maintenance window, wanted to patch SharePoint 2013 servers with available hot fixes and cumulative updates (CU). As the first step, From Microsoft site...
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Get All Users of SharePoint Farm-Web Application-Site Collection-Site using...
Requirement: Get all users of SharePoint environment. PowerShell script to get all SharePoint users at Farm-Web Application-Site Collection-Web levels:Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell...
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How to Rename SharePoint 2013/2010 Central Admin Database to Remove GUID
When you run the SharePoint products configuration wizard right after installing SharePoint binaries, it creates SharePoint central administration database with GUIDs. E.g....
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How to Check SQL Server Connectivity from SharePoint
How do I quickly check SQL Server connectivity from SharePoint server? Well, you can use Telnet.telnet {SQL-Server-Name or IP} 1433If your SQL Server listens on different port, change the default port...
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Create New Managed Account in SharePoint 2013 Using Powershell
Managed accounts are active directory accounts for SharePoint's whose credentials are managed by SharePoint. Managed accounts in SharePoint 2013 is explained in my another article: Configuring Managed...
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How to Change Managed Account Password in SharePoint 2013
You may have to change your service account passwords for reasons such as: Password expiration, Security best practice, Your SharePoint guy left your company, etc. Remember those old days? You got to...
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SharePoint 2013 Set Site Collection to Read Only
At times we may require to set site collections to read-only to prevent any add/edit/delete operations on the site's content. During a SharePoint migration we decided to set sites to read only to...
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Configuring Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2013
What is Managed Account in SharePoint? Why We Need Managed Accounts? SharePoint uses service accounts for operations such as Farm account, application pools and for service applications. You have to...
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Migrate SharePoint Users from One Domain To Another
Requirement:During a acquisition, Our company decided to merge with an acquired company's AD by re-creating their user Ids in our AD. Also, the acquired company had a bunch SharePoint sites and we...
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Manage Access Request Settings in SharePoint 2013
Access request feature allows users to request access to sites and content. Access requests feature is improved in SharePoint 2013. Now, Administrators can keep a track of access requests.Enable access...
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Create SharePoint Service Accounts in AD using PowerShell
I do a lot of SharePoint deployments now a days. I use PowerShell scripts to quickly create SharePoint service accounts instead of manually creating them in Active directory one by one. Run the below...
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