Using the Merge-SPLogFile cmdlet
The Merge-SPLogFile cmdlet can be a real time saver if you need to search the SharePoint logs and there are multiple servers in the farm. I regularly use it to search for a specific correlation ID and then open the…
"Sorry, something went wrong" when a user tries to edit their profile
I have had users report that they are unable to edit their profile, they just get the unhelpful “Sorry, something went wrong” error. Fortunately some of them thought to record the Correlation ID so I was able to use the…
Rename a Service Application’s database using PowerShell
While setting up a SharePoint 2013 DR environment I needed to script the renaming of databases used by service applications. Utilising the Get-SPServiceApplication cmdlet I was able to achieve this with just three lines: $sa = Get-SPServiceApplication -Name “Managed Metadata…
SharePoint 2013 logs growing by several GB per day
I have received an alert from our monitoring system for one of the Web Front End servers in my SharePoint 2013 farm running low on disk space. A quick check revealed that the log folder was fast filling up (in fact…
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