SharePoint 2013 – hide the quick launch
Today I was asked to hide the quick launch on a SharePoint 2013 page. The easiest way to achieve this was to use the Script Editor web part with the following CSS: <Style Type="Text/CSS"> /* — Hide the quick launch…
SharePoint 2013 – Increase the Distributed Cache size
In order to improve performance I am increasing the cache size for the Distributed Cache Service using the Update-SPDistributedCacheSize cmdlet. Here are the steps to do so: 1. Update the cache size: Use-CacheCluster Update-SPDistributedCacheSize -CacheSizeInMB 2048 2. Stop the service…
Remove the title from a news feed web part
If you would like to hide the title of a news feed web part you can do this by adding a Script Editor web part to the page and editing the code snippet to include the following: <style type=”text/css”> .ms-microfeed-siteFeedTitleArea…
People search relevance is not optimized when the Active Directory has errors in the manager reporting structure
I often see this warning reported by SharePoint Health Analyzer: People search relevance is not optimized when the Active Directory has errors in the manager reporting structure There are lots of users in our organisation so I use the Get-ADUser…
SharePoint 2013 – Distributed Cache stuck on Starting
I have added a new cache host to a SharePoint 2013 farm using the Add-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance cmdlet. However, in Central Administration the service shows that it is stuck on Starting. If I use the Get-SPServiceInstance cmdlet then I can see that…
SharePoint 2013 backup fails – Object Crawl-0 (E: on WW-SP) failed in event OnBackupComplete
Today I encountered the following failure message when running a manual backup of my SharePoint 2013 environment using Central Administration: Object Crawl-0 (E: on WW-SP) failed in event OnBackupComplete. For more information, see the spbackup.log or sprestore.log file located in…
SharePoint 2013 – Sign in as a different user
In SharePoint 2013 Microsoft removed the ‘Sign in as a different user’ option. Whilst there are a number of ways to get it back, some of them are unsupported. My preferred method is to use the Alt Login feature by…