
I have built a new SharePoint 2013 environment and after provisioning a new Search Service Application the following was regularly being logged in the Application Event Log: Content Plugin cannot be initialized – list of CSS addresses is not set…

I am building a new 3-tier farm. I have already configured the application and database servers and am now ready to add another which will be used as the web front end. I have already installed the pre-requisites and binaries…

Today I tried to add an Exchange calendar overlay to an existing calendar in SharePoint 2010 but encountered the following error: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority ‘<mailserver>’. I have already added the trust…

I’m using AutoSPInstaller to build a multi-server SharePoint 2013 farm on Windows 2012R2 for the first time. All has gone well up to the point of configuring the remote servers. It fails with this error: New-PSSession : [SERVER2] Connecting to…

I have enabled auditing for a site collection but when I open the Site Settings page the Audit Log Reports link is missing. To fix this, I ran the following command: STSADM.EXE -o ActivateFeature -Name Reporting -URL http://intranet -Force Now…
I wrote this PowerShell script to identify all documents in a site that exceed 256 characters in length. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ff919564(v=office.14).aspx for more information. Feel free to copy the code and use the script as you see fit (at your own…

The New-SPSite PowerShell cmdlet allows you to specify the name of a template to use. If you don’t know the names of all the templates then use the Get-SPWebTemplate command to produce a list: Get-SPWebTemplate | Sort-Object “Name The list…
SharePoint 2013 supports the use of a configuration file to perform a scripted or silent installation. There are some sample configuration files included in the setup: Setup – setup a single server (files\setup\config.xml) SetupFarmSilent – setup a farm in silent…