If you are upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 you may wish to limit the number of sites that can be upgraded concurrently. The example below uses the Set-SPContentDatabase PowerShell cmdlet to set the limit to 5: $var =…

Today I am installing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (SSRS) to enable the Power View feature in SharePoint 2013. There are three steps to this process: Install, register and start Reporting Services Report Server Create a Reporting Services Service…
AutoSPInstaller now supports SharePoint 2016 since the release of the SharePoint 2016 Preview back in August. It also supports installation on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3. I understand there are some known issues to I suggest reading more about…
The SharePoint Server 2016 preview is now available to download from the Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48712 Note: Windows Server 2012 R2 is required
Today I noticed the following error in my search crawl log: Error in the Microsoft SharePoint Server People Protocol Handler After a bit of troubleshooting I realised that I had to update the content source to replace sps3://mysite.mydomain.local with sps3s://mysite.mydomain.local…
I have enabled SSL in SharePoint 2013 and configured FQDNs for external access. Since doing this, users are continually prompted for credentials. This was because the URL contains dots (‘.’) and IE treats this as an external site, so wasn’t…
The following CSS is useful if you want to hide the navigation on the left hand side of a page: <style type=”text/css”> /* — Hide the quick launch — */ #sideNavBox { display: none; } #contentBox { margin-left: 20px…
I’m working on a SharePoint farm where documents don’t appear in search results until the next day. To ensure they appear in search results within one hour of being uploaded I will configure a continuous crawl on the content source:…
If you find that query suggestions do not work in your SharePoint 2013 Search then here are a few things you can try. Enable search suggestions 1. Log into Central Administration 2. Navigate to Manage Service Applications -> Search…