There are times when you want to add search components (or move components to a new server). The instructions below will show how to add the various search components. You can put the various components on the any SharePoint server. This can help speed up your crawls especially if you have a large amount of […]
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Remove a SharePoint On-Prem Search Component
You may want to remove a search component because it is corrupt or you want to free up resources. You can do this by following these steps. 1. Open up “SharePoint 2013 Management Shell” on one of the SharePoint servers as an administrator.2. Type in the following commands replacing with the name of the server […]
Clearing up Disk Space on a SharePoint Server
If the SharePoint Server is running out of disk space, it is probably because the logs are filling up. You can clean these up by following these steps. Navigate to the log directory on the affected SharePoint server (i.e. ” C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\LOGS” on SharePoint 2013 and “C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server […]
Resetting the OWA connection
If Office Web Apps (OWA) stops working, you may need to rebind SharePoint to the Office Web Apps server. You do this by following these steps. Open up the “SharePoint 2013 Management Shell” on one of the application servers using “run as administrator”. Remove all previous bindings by running the following command. Remove-SPWOPIBinding -All:$true Set […]
Creating a Classic Mode Web App in SharePoint 2013
When creating a web application, you will need to determine what kind of authentication you will be using. Due to the configuration of the network you might need to create a classic mode web applications on occasion. This cannot be done via the Central Administration UI. You must use PowerShell. You can do this by […]
Converting a SharePoint 2013 Classic Mode web to Claims Based
The process of converting a classic mode application to claims based is fairly straightforward but it is also a one-way street. You should back up the web application before you attempt this procedure. You can accomplish this task by following these steps. Open up the “SharePoint 2013 Management Shell” on one of the application servers […]
“Warm up” SharePoint On-Prem
After SharePoint On-Prem has not been used for a while (an hour or so), it can take a while to “warm” up and get back to normal responsiveness. To prevent this from happening you can use PowerShell scripts and batch files to keep the sites “warm” by hitting the home page periodically. You can do […]
How to set the default of a date field to blank
When you add a date control to a screen it sets the default date to Today and if you delete that from the Default property it will show 12/31/2001 as shown below. If you are using a data source like SharePoint, then the default will be 12/31/2001 as well. There are many reasons you might […]
Take pictures in Power Apps with the Camera control
The camera control can be used to take an image and then take that image to populate an Image control. It is a little tricky because you have to use the Stream property of the camera. You set this up by doing the following. Put image control, camera control, and button on canvas On the […]
Build a Profile Card of current user
In this post, we build a profile card with the current user’s name, email address, and office phone number as shown below. This can be useful for a portal page that includes a link to where the user can modify their information. The first thing to do is to add a connection to the data […]
Filter a Gallery with a drop-down
When dealing with a large list and using a Gallery you will usually want to filter down the values shown. You may also, want to show all of the items in the gallery. You can do this with a drop down and following these steps. Step 1 Populate the drop-down with values. You can do […]
Passing a value in a URL to a Nintex Form
Note: This is for the Nintex forms for Office 365 There are times when you want to pass a value to a form via the URL. In my case, I was wanting to relate two lists together via the list item ID. This will require a little javascript and modify some settings of the form. […]