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Schedule Data Migrations at Convenience with dSHIFT Migrator for SharePoint

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:27:00 +0000

The role of IT personnel in the workplace demands patience, and the nature of the trade often involves spending more than 8 or 9 hours of work each day. Maintaining the performance of information systems is critical for keeping a ...

Manage the index component in SharePoint Server 2013

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:31:48 +0000

You add an index replica to the search topology to achieve fault tolerance for an existing index partition. You place the index replicas on separate failure domains on separate servers. When you add an index replica, you add a ...

Manage search components in SharePoint Server 2013

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:29:53 +0000

Before you add search components to a new server, you must first start a search service instance on the server. The search service instance starts all the necessary Windows services that are used by the search service (OSearch15 and ...

Change the default search topology in SharePoint Server 2013

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:28:18 +0000

The following list provides an overview of the tasks involved to change from the default search topology, without any content in the search index, to a new search topology.

Ensure that no crawls have been started and ...

Create and configure a Search service application in SharePoint Server 2013

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:26:04 +0000

When you deploy and configure a Search service application, you perform the following main tasks:

Create accounts — Certain domain user accounts are required specifically for a Search service application.

Create a Search service application — A ...

Configure PerformancePoint Services (SharePoint Server 2013)

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:23:35 +0000

The application pool for the PerformancePoint Services service application requires a SharePoint Server 2013 managed account (generally an Active Directory account) to run. This account must have access to the content databases where PerformancePoint data will be stored.
If ...

Create and configure Machine Translation services in SharePoint Server 2013

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:22:04 +0000

You can create a new Machine Translation Service application by using either Central Administration or Windows PowerShell.
To create a Machine Translation service application by using Central Administration

Verify that the user account that is performing ...

Configure a Business Intelligence Center in SharePoint Server 2013

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:20:15 +0000

When you create and configure a Business Intelligence Center, you create a new site collection and select the Business Intelligence Center site template. The Business Intelligence Center is a top-level site.
To create a Business Intelligence Center

Configure SAML-based claims authentication with AD FS in SharePoint 2013

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:18:49 +0000

Phase 1: Install and configure an AD FS server

You must install and configure a server that runs AD FS 2.0. For more information, see the AD FS 2.0 Deployment Guide (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=191723).

Phase 2: Configure AD FS with the web ...

Configure forms-based authentication for a claims-based web application in SharePoint 2013

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:16:48 +0000

Phase 1: Create a new web application that uses forms-based authentication with Central Administration

Perform the steps in the following procedure to create a web application that uses forms-based authentication with Central Administration.
To create a new web application ...

Use best practice configurations for the SharePoint 2013 virtual machines and Hyper-V environment

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:12:12 +0000

Hyper-V virtual networks

You can create and configure a Hyper-V virtual network before you install and configure virtual machines. In addition, you can create more than one virtual network on a Hyper-V host computer.

Install SharePoint 2013 across multiple servers for a three-tier farm

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:10:14 +0000

Overview

The basic steps in this deployment are as follows:

Ensure that you are familiar with the concept of a three-tier topology.

Ensure that you have done all the planning and preparatory work, such as ...

Configure Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2013

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:08:44 +0000

Configure the application pool account

For better security, we recommend that you use a separate domain account to run the Excel Services application pool. Have your domain administrator create a domain account to use in running the Excel Services ...

Install SharePoint 2013 on a single server with a built-in database

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:03:22 +0000

Overview

When you deploy SharePoint 2013 on a single server that has a built-in database by using the default settings, Setup installs Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Express Edition and the SharePoint product. The SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard ...

Install SharePoint 2013 on a single server with SQL Server

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:59:28 +0000

Overview

When you install SharePoint 2013 on a single server, you can configure SharePoint 2013 to meet your specific needs. After you have completed setup and the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, you will have installed binaries, configured security permissions, ...

Install prerequisites for SharePoint 2013 from a network share

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:58:22 +0000

Installer switches and arguments

By using PrerequisiteInstaller.exe with switches and arguments, you control the versions of the required software that are installed and the location from which they are installed.
PrequisiteInstaller.exe accepts single or multiple switch and argument pairs. ...

Users sometimes cannot access the Site Mailbox on the root SharePoint site

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:28:44 +0000

When you try to access the Site Mailbox app on your root site in SharePoint, you may run into an “Access Denied” error message or just a blank page. This is usually because the site’s default Owners and Members groups ...

eDiscovery queries without any keywords do not return Exchange results

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:27:29 +0000

In SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server, you can create an eDiscovery query in the eDiscovery Case site template, connect the site to Exchange, and then search SharePoint and Exchange from there. Currently, if your search query is blank, search will ...

External list instance cannot be created for an external content type that has PageNumber filter

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:26:27 +0000

If you create an external content type in SharePoint Online or SharePoint Server using Visual Studio and want to add a PageNumber filter to the external content type, you’ll need to make sure that no list instance is created for ...

Deploying a SharePoint Server 2013 solution in Visual Studio results in an error if Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service is not started

sharepoint@dshift.com (dSHIFT) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:24:39 +0000

If you deploy a SharePoint solution in Visual Studio, you will see an error if Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service is not started in the target SharePoint farm.
Error message: “Error occurred in deployment step ‘Add Solution’: Cannot start ...