Identify customisations to be installed when upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013
If you are planning to upgrade a SharePoint 2010 farm to a SharePoint 2013 farm you may need to identify the customisations that must be installed on the new farm. You can do this using stsadm.exe: stsadm.exe -o enumallwebs -includewebparts…
SharePoint 2013 – URL mappings for Host Named Site Collections
The only way to add a URL mapping to a Host Named Site Collection is by using PowerShell and the Set-SPSiteURL cmdlet. Below is an example of how to add a URL to an existing site collection: $Site = Get-SPSite ‘https://intranet.webbworld.local’…

SharePoint 2013 – There are no registered destination locations for this site
I am creating a library based retention schedule to automatically move documents over a certain age to an archive location. However, when setting the action to Transfer to another location I receive an error message: There are no registered destination…
SharePoint 2013 – update a custom solution without having to retract the previous version
If you need to update a custom solution without having to retract the previous version you can do this using the Update-SPSolution PowerShell cmdlet: Update-SPSolution -Identity MySolution.wsp -LiteralPath C:\MySolution.wsp -GACDeployment
Limit the number of concurrent site upgrades
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 =…

Installing Reporting Services for SharePoint 2013 to support Power View
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…
Error in the Microsoft SharePoint Server People Protocol Handler
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…
SharePoint 2013 prompting for credentials after enabling SSL
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…