Showing posts with label Central Admin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Central Admin. Show all posts

Monday, October 24, 2016

Fast Site Creation in SharePoint 2016

 Fast Site Collection Creation for a template,

Enable-SPWebTemplateForSiteMaster -Template “STS#0” -CompatibilityLevel 15


Let’s get the DB where we have already provisioned a site collection.
$DB = Get-SPContentDatabase -site http://peakfinders/sites/fast
Now lets create a SiteMaster in it.
New-SPSiteMaster -ContentDatabase $DB -Template “STS#0”

Get-SPSiteMaster $DB

Open Central Administration >View all the site collections


Remove-SPSiteMaster to remove the SiteMaster from your Content database.
Create new site collection using –CreateFromSiteMaster parameter.
New-SPSite http://sp2016vm:4430/sites/FastSite1 -ContentDatabase $DB -CompatibilityLevel 15 -CreateFromSiteMaster -OwnerAlias “sp2016\sp16_farm”


Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The specified user account "domain\username" is a local account. Local accounts should only be used in stand alone mode

Run this command.

New-SPConfigurationDatabase

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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

MySite navigates to person.aspx page rather than actual mysite

Go to Sharepoint Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage service applications-> User profile Service App -> Setup my site

Edit My Site Host and Personal Site Location and input the right location.
$Web = Get-SPWeb http://[MySiteURL]/personal/[UserID]
$Web.SetProperty("urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:profile:userprofile_guid", "[NewGUID]")
$Web.Update()



User Profile Service Application -> Manage User Profiles -> Find the user profile that is having issues -> Edit User Profile

Friday, March 18, 2016

Resource Throttling in SharePoint 2013



  • monitoring and throttling server resources and large lists for Web applications. 
  • its enables you to control resource utilization during peak usage and prevent user activity from negatively affecting server performance. 



  1. General Settings Ribbon, select Resource Throttling.
  2. Enter values for the List View Threshold option.
  3.  This limits queries within a list to guard against performance degradation with too many list items. 
  4. In SharePoint Server 2013, a list can support up to 50 million items. 

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Attach a content Database in SharePoint

  • Central Administration 
  • Application Management page,>> Databases section, Select Manage content databases.
  •  Manage Content Databases page, select Add a content database.
  •  Add Content Database page
  • select the web application to which you want to attach a content database.

 Mount-SPContentDatabase cmdlet