
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…

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…

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…

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…
I’ve now used AutoSPInstaller to build multi-server farms several times, and often come across new issues (not the fault of AutoSPInstaller, I should add). Today the script has got stuck in a loop when trying to provision the User Profile…

If AutoSPInstaller fails while provisioning the Secure Store Service Application you may encounter this error: – Provisioning Secure Store Service Application… – Secure Store Service Application already provisioned. – Creating the Master Key… Update-SPSecureStoreMasterKey : Secure Store Service did not…