Update-SPSecureStoreMasterKey – Secure Store Service did not performed the operation
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…
Event ID 2548 – SharePoint Server Search
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…
Adding a new server to an existing farm (SharePoint 2013) using PowerShell
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…
AutoSPInstaller – error connecting to remote server
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…
Using Get-SPWebTemplate to list available site templates
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…
A certificate validation operation took xxxx milliseconds and has exceeded the execution time threshold
I have just noticed the following message logged several times in the Application Event Log on a SharePoint 2013 Application server: A certificate validation operation took 23369.387 milliseconds and has exceeded the execution time threshold. If this continues to occur,…