Category: SharePoint On-Prem

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]