Setup. A SharePoint farm in a domain. You want to add a managed account from another domain, with one-way trust between domains. Example: DomainB TRUST DomainA. SharePoint instance is in DomainB and you want to add a managed account from DomainA. User AdminA has local admin and farm admin privileges on farm and is used […]
Category: System Administration
How to Move Active Directory FSMO roles with PowerShell
Setup: Active directory domain with many domain controllers Problem: You want to move FSMO roles to another domain controller Solution: You can move the Active Directory (AD) from the command prompt using PowerShell in just a few seconds with PowerShell. Make sure you import the Active Directory PowerShell module: Transfer all the FSMO roles at […]
Get Cluster size for all disks and volumes on a Windows machine using PowerShell and WMI
Get Cluster size for all disks and volumes on a Windows machine using PowerShell and WMI Get-WmiObject -Query “SELECT Label, Blocksize, Name FROM Win32_Volume WHERE FileSystem=’NTFS’” -ComputerName ‘.’ | Select-Object Label, Blocksize, Name See below an example of output:
List the SQL connection authentication method. NTLM vs Kerberos
Run the following query to find out if the connections to SQL server are using NTLM or Kerberos:
SQL Server Configuration Manager – Cannot connect to WMI provider – Invalid class [0x80041010]
Error 1 Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005 and later servers with SQL Server Configuration Manager. Invalid namespace [0x8004100e] Error 2 SQL Server Configuration Manager – Cannot connect to WMI provider – Invalid class [0x80041010] To work […]
Search service is not able to connect to Administration component server
SharePoint 2010 – Search service is not able to connect to Administration component server In this blog post, I would write about most generic issue in SharePoint 2010 search service application and I am sure many of you have already come across this: In SharePoint 2010 – When you try to browse to a Search […]
SharePoint Warm-Up – not needed anymore
Setup: Sharepoint website Problem: When you access first time the website, the response is very slow because IIS need time for dependencies such as database connections, compilation of ASP.NET code, and loading of modules. Solution: Application Initialization Module for IIS 7.5 Overview IIS Application Initialization for IIS 7.5 enables website administrators to improve the responsiveness […]
Sharepoint 2010 setup is not starting on Windows 2012
Setup: Server with Windows 2012 and you want to install Sharepoint Foundation 2010 SP2 Problem: .hta file does not open properly to show the install option. You are asked to save the file. Solution: Go to C\programfilesX86\MSECache\SharePoint2010. Right click splash.hta file and go to “Open with…” and select “Choose default program…”. Expand “More options” and select […]
Fixing People Search in SharePoint 2010
Setup: SharePoint 2010 farm Problem: People search is not working Solution: Follow this check list and make sure all is setup correctly. 1. Check that mysite url is correct added to Content Sources, using sps3:// protocol, or sps3s if your site is running under https protocol. 2. Check if crawling account has enough permissions on […]
Get the extensive status of all databases on MS SQL server
Setup: Microsoft SQL server installed Problem: You need a list of databases and all their important properties. Solution: Source: Internet