How to change the Root Site template in SharePoint

How to change the Root Site template in SharePoint

            

Many times SharePoint administrators face an issue that they need to change the root site template once created. For Example, Root site is created with 

search Template and they want to change it to Team site template, How?

Solution: Follow the below steps to make it possible.

·        Login with your Administrator credential on the root site that you want to change

·        Go to Site Settings --> Site Action --> Delete this site             

·        Click on OK

·        Login with your Administrator credential on Central Administration

·        Go to Application Management --> Create Site Collection

·        You can find the new "/" on Web Site Address

·        create the site with desired template

Note: There is no issue If any packages are already deployed under Root site

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Service Applications in SharePoint

Service Applications in SharePoint

I am trying to explain the service applications definitions in this article. Please make a comment if you feel any incorrect.

Access Services — This service application enables you to create, view, edit, and interact using either the access 2013 office client or in the browser.

Access Services 2010 — This service application enables continued maintenance of SharePoint 2010 Access service applications by using Access 2010 and 2013 Office clients. It does not enable users to create new applications.

App Management Service — The App Management Service enables you to install apps from the internal App Catalog or the public SharePoint store.

Business Data Connectivity Service — The Business Connectivity Service (BCS) enables you to upload data (BDC) models that define interfaces of other enterprise line-of-business (LOB) systems and enables connectivity to those systems.

Excel Services — This service application enables viewing and interacting with Excel files from within the browser.

Machine Translation Services — This service provides automatic machine translation of files and sites.

Managed Metadata Service — This service application enables you to manage taxonomy hierarchies, keywords, and social tagging features of SharePoint 2013. This service application also handles content-type publishing across site collections.

Performance Point — This service application supports configuration and monitoring of Performance Point as a business intelligence (BI) product integrated with the Enterprise edition of SharePoint 2013.

PowerPoint Automation Service — This service application enables server-side presentation conversions to and from a variety of file formats.

 Search Service — As its name implies, this service application (which comes with its own topology management configuration) is used to index content and serves search queries performed by users or custom code.

Secure Store Service — This is a credential mapping service to access other enterprise-level service applications or back-end enterprise systems.

State Service — The State Service provides temporary storage of any data that deals with a user session.

 Usage and Health Data Collection — This service application provides storage usage and health information at the farm level, and provides various reporting functionality on such data.

User Profile — This user profile service application is one of the core service applications in SharePoint 2013. This service application supports features such as My Sites, My links, Colleague tracker, profile pages, personal tags and notes, and other social features.

Visio Graphics Service — This service application enables viewing, interacting, and refreshing of Visio diagrams within a browser.

Word Automation Services — This service application enables you to view and edit Word documents in a web browser. It can also be used for document conversions.

Work Management Service — This Work Management Service enables key user-related information to be aggregated to a central location. The service supports a provider model to enable other systems to leverage this service.

Subscription Setting Service — This is the key enabling component of the Multitenancy features provided by the SharePoint 2013 platform

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WHAT’S NEW In SharePoint 2013

WHAT’S NEW In SharePoint 2013

SQL improvements and shredded storage — A number of improvements have been made at the database layer to reduce the impact of scenarios that might invoke full table scans, improve usage of advanced indexing features in SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012,and incorporate a new feature called shredded storage that changes the way SharePoint stores and updates files in SQL. Files are now shredded, and only the changed pieces are updated at the database layer. This reduces the impact caused by document updates.

Distributed cache service — A new cache service, based on Windows Server AppFabricDistributed Caching, has been implemented in SharePoint 2013. By default it is enabled on all web front ends and application servers. It improves performance by caching information

such as social data authentication tokens.

Unified search architecture — SharePoint 2013 unifies the search offerings available in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2013 search provides numerous improvements to content crawling, content processing, analytics processing, indexing, query processing, and search administration components.

 Integrated Request Management (RM) — Request Management provides SharePoint more knowledge and control over incoming requests. This includes throttling and routing requests to appropriate web front ends, prioritization and filtering of requests, and load balancing based on weighting schemes.

New service applications — New service applications include the App Management Service to support and manage apps in SharePoint 2013, the Machine Translation Service that supports automated language translation of files, and the Work Management Service that provides task aggregation functionality.

 Office Web Applications is now a separate product — Office Web Applications have been split into a dedicated product to provide a uniform application for viewing and editing files, including files not necessarily in SharePoint. The Office Web Apps Server supports the Web application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) that SharePoint implements to support office files hosted in SharePoint.

 Web analytics platform — The web analytics platform replaces the web analytics service application that was in SharePoint 2010. It has been completely redesigned and integrated into the search service application of SharePoint 2013.

 Windows Azure — Windows Azure Workflow are now supported for on-premise and hosted deployments in SharePoint 2013.

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Error while deploying solutions in Multi server farm

Error while deploying solutions in Multi server farm

Background: Farm consists of 8-10 servers for Example and doing Installation of Solutions by using the script. In All the servers Solution deployed successfully Except one server, when we check in Manage farm Solutions under system settings showing error.

Error: deployed successfully Except one server. Error shows, Its already deployed in server, You should force to deploy again.

Central admin->system settings->manage farm solutions->specific WSP(shows error)

Solution: Go to the specific server that shows error in manage farm solutions  And run the below command in SharePoint management shell to install solution on specific server.

      Install-spsolution –gacdeployment -force

                        

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Cannot complete this action as the secures store shared service is not responding

Cannot complete this action as the secures store shared service is not responding

                    

 At the time we create Secure store service application and click on we get the above error.

Cause: The secure store service  is in stopped state.

Solution: Ensure that the secure store service  is started.

Central Administration->Application Management->manage services on server

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Update Farm Credentials in SharePoint 2010,2013

Update Farm Credentials in SharePoint 2010,2013

A common task that every time A SharePoint Administrator need to do is to update the SharePoint Farm credentials  when the password changes.  may be able to do this automatically by using the new SharePoint 2010 feature to plan automatic password change.

No Command in  Power Shell to update the farm account, you have to switch to the tool “STSADM” only.

Since its SharePoint 2010,go to the path now the c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Bin folder and type the below STSADM to update.

Since its SharePoint 2013 go to the path now the c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Bin folder and type the below STSADM to update

stsadm –o updatefarmcredentials –userlogin DOMAIN\username –password $password$

                                           

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Explanation of Zones in Alternate Access Mappings

Zones represent different logical paths (URLs) of gaining access to the same Web application. You can use zones to enforce different access and policy conditions for group of users.    
                                  

Each Web application can have a maximum of 5 zones. The 5 possible zones are:

·        Default:

·        Intranet

·        Internet

·        Custom

·        Extranet

When you create a Web application, the Default zone is created. You can then extend the Web application to create other zones.

Each zone can only be selected once per Web application. For example, you can only have one Default zone in a Web application.

Each zone is represented by a different Web site in IIS.

Configuration of AAM:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263208.aspx

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February cumulative update package (SharePoint server-package): February 11, 2014

February cumulative update package (SharePoint server-package): February 11, 2014

Be aware that the February Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP2 hot fix. It is recommended to have SP2 installed before installing the February CU.

The KB articles for February CU are available at the following locations:

·         KB 2863938 - SharePoint Foundation 2010

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2863938

·         KB 2863913 - SharePoint Server 2010

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2863913

·         KB 2863917 - SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2863917

The Full Server Packages for February 2014 CU are available through the following links:

·         Download SharePoint Foundation 2010 February 2014 CU

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbln=en-us&kbnum=2863938

·         Download SharePoint Server 2010 February 2014 CU

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbln=en-us&kbnum=2863913

·         Download SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server February 2014 CU

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbln=en-us&kbnum=2863917

After installing the fixes you need to run the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard on each machine in the farm.Be aware that the SharePoint Server 2010 CU contains the SharePoint Foundation CU. And the SharePoint Server 2010 with Project Server CU contains Project Server CU, SharePoint Server CU and SharePoint Foundation CU.That means only one package has to be installed for the SharePoint 2010 product family.

You can download all the latest Updated from below link

SharePoint 2013: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepoint/jj891062

SharePoint 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepoint/ff800847

See More details of Updates at: http://expertsharepoint.blogspot.de/2013/10/follow-below-links-to-get-latest.html

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Performance of SharePoint Servers

Performance of SharePoint Servers                

Performance issues is all common in SharePoint. Many times it’s a big complainant from users that sites are very slow and not able to do work on SharePoint as expected. Here are some of the STRONGLY recommended methods that should be followed as base on my Experience.

SQL Maxdop setting should NOT be 0

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh292622.aspx

Set max degree of parallelism (MAXDOP) to 1 for SQL Server instances that host SharePoint Server 2010 databases to ensure that each request is served by a single SQL Server process 

Anti-Virus check.

Certain folders may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning when you use a file-level antivirus program in SharePoint

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167

SQL TempDB configuration and Optimization.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175527.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joaquint/archive/2011/02/08/sharepoint-and-the-importance-of-tempdb.aspx

Database maintenance for SharePoint 2010 Products

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262731.aspx

Disable Certification Revocation checking.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2625048

SQL Deadlock errors. Event ID 10016 in logs.

We need to disable following settings on ALL the SharePoint Servers and also SQL Servers. If SQL Server is in Cluster, all the nodes in the cluster also needs to be changed. After making the Changes, Reboot of all the Servers including SQL servers is Mandatory.

TCP Chimney Offload 

 By Default in Wind 2008 Servers, this setting is "Automatic", we need to Disable it. "netsh int tcp set global chimney=disabled"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951037.

 IP Task Offload. by Default in Wind 2008 Servers, this setting is "Enabled", we need to disable it. "netsh int ip set global taskoffload=disabled". This is also applicable for Fast for SharePoint Server issues.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2570111

NIC settings should be Disabled.

IPv4 Checksum Offload”, “Large Send Offload” and “TCP Checksum offload” [ note: this may require a hard reboot of the servers ]

 Use of Disable TCP Chimney on SQL Servers

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/psssql/archive/2008/10/01/windows-scalable-networking-pack-possible-performance-and-concurrency-impacts-to-sql-server-workloads.aspx

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SharePoint Standard and Enterprise Features

SharePoint Standard and Enterprise Features

A default, out-of-the-box Team Site with “SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection Features” contains the following activated Site-scoped features:

Display Name	Id
DocumentRoutingResources	0c8a9a47-22a9-4798-82f1-00e62a96006e
EnhancedTheming	068bc832-4951-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66
Ratings	915c240e-a6cc-49b8-8b2c-0bff8b553ed3
WebPartAdderGroups	2ed1c45e-a73b-4779-ae81-1524e4de467a
PremiumSite	8581a8a7-cf16-4770-ac54-260265ddb0b2
CTypes	695b6570-a48b-4a8e-8ea5-26ea7fc1d162
SocialSite	4326e7fc-f35a-4b0f-927c-36264b0a4cf0
ExpirationWorkflow	c85e5759-f323-4efb-b548-443d2216efb5
ShareWithEveryone	10f73b29-5779-46b3-85a8-4817a6e9a6c2
ItemFormRecommendations	39d18bbf-6e0f-4321-8f16-4e3b51212393
FastEndUserHelpCollection	6e8f2b8d-d765-4e69-84ea-5702574c11d6
Fields	ca7bd552-10b1-4563-85b9-5ed1d39c962a
SearchDrivenContent	592ccb4a-9304-49ab-aab1-66638198bb58
VisioWebAccess	9fec40ea-a949-407d-be09-6cba26470a0c
MediaWebPart	5b79b49a-2da6-4161-95bd-7375c1995ef9
OffWFCommon	c9c9515d-e4e2-4001-9050-74f980f93160
BizAppsSiteTemplates	4248e21f-a816-4c88-8cab-79d82201da7b
BaseSite	b21b090c-c796-4b0f-ac0f-7ef1659c20ae
PortalLayouts	5f3b0127-2f1d-4cfd-8dd2-85ad1fb00bfc
IssueTrackingWorkflow	fde5d850-671e-4143-950a-87b473922dc7
ProjectBasedPolicy	2fcd5f8a-26b7-4a6a-9755-918566dba90a
ExcelServerWebPart	4c42ab64-55af-4c7c-986a-ac216a6e0c0e
SearchWebParts	eaf6a128-0482-4f71-9a2f-b1c650680e77
BizAppsCTypes	43f41342-1a37-4372-8ca0-b44d881e4434
LocationBasedPolicy	063c26fa-3ccc-4180-8a84-b6f98e991df3
RecordResources	5bccb9a4-b903-4fd1-8620-b795fa33c9ba
BasicWebParts	00bfea71-1c5e-4a24-b310-ba51c3eb7a57
VideoAndRichMedia	6e1e5426-2ebd-4871-8027-c5ca86371ead
IPFSSiteFeatures	c88c4ff1-dbf5-4649-ad9f-c6c426ebcbf5
BizAppsFields	5a979115-6b71-45a5-9881-cdc872051a69
MobileExcelWebAccess	e995e28b-9ba8-4668-9933-cf5c146d7a9f
MossChart	875d1044-c0cf-4244-8865-d2a0039c2a49
LocalSiteDirectoryControl	14aafd3a-fcb9-4bb7-9ad7-d8e36b663bbd
ExcelServerSite	3cb475e7-4e87-45eb-a1f3-db96ad7cf313
AccSrvSolutionGallery	744b5fd3-3b09-4da6-9bd1-de18315b045d
AssetLibrary	4bcccd62-dcaf-46dc-a7d4-e38277ef33f4
TaxonomyFieldAdded	73ef14b1-13a9-416b-a9b5-ececa2b0604c
SearchExtensions	5eac763d-fbf5-4d6f-a76b-eded7dd7b0a5
SearchTemplatesandResources	8b2c6bcb-c47f-4f17-8127-f8eae47a44dd
Document Set	3bae86a2-776d-499d-9db8-fa4cdc7884f8
Reporting	7094bd89-2cfe-490a-8c7e-fbace37b4a34

The following Web-scoped features are active in that same Team Site with “SharePoint Server Standard Site Features” activated:

Display Name	Id
WikiPageHomePage	00bfea71-d8fe-4fec-8dad-01c19a6e4053
WebPageLibrary	00bfea71-c796-4402-9f2f-0eb9a6e71b18
BizAppsListTemplates	065c78be-5231-477e-a972-14177cc5b3c7
IssuesList	00bfea71-5932-4f9c-ad71-1557e5751100
PremiumWeb	0806d127-06e6-447a-980e-2e90b03101b8
WorkflowHistoryList	00bfea71-4ea5-48d4-a4ad-305cf7030140
ReportListTemplate	2510d73f-7109-4ccc-8a1c-314894deeb3a
MBrowserRedirect	d95c97f3-e528-4da2-ae9f-32b3535fbb59
PromotedLinksList	192efa95-e50c-475e-87ab-361cede5dd7f
NoCodeWorkflowLibrary	00bfea71-f600-43f6-a895-40c0de7b0117
FollowingContent	a7a2793e-67cd-4dc1-9fd0-43f61581207a
MySiteMicroBlog	ea23650b-0340-4708-b465-441a41c37af7
SurveysList	00bfea71-eb8a-40b1-80c7-506be7590102
GridList	00bfea71-3a1d-41d3-a0ee-651d11570120
GanttTasksList	00bfea71-513d-4ca0-96c2-6a47775c0119
LinksList	00bfea71-2062-426c-90bf-714c59600103
MobilityRedirect	f41cc668-37e5-4743-b4a8-74d1db3fd8a4
workflowProcessList	00bfea71-2d77-4a75-9fca-76516689e21a
TasksList	00bfea71-a83e-497e-9ba0-7a5c597d0107
TeamCollab	00bfea71-4ea5-48d4-a4ad-7ea5c011abe5
AccSvcAddAccessApp	d2b9ec23-526b-42c5-87b6-852bd83e0364
BaseWeb	99fe402e-89a0-45aa-9163-85342e865dc8
SiteFeedController	5153156a-63af-4fac-b557-91bd8c315432
WorkflowTask	57311b7a-9afd-4ff0-866e-9393ad6647b1
HierarchyTasksList	f9ce21f8-f437-4f7e-8bc6-946378c850f0
MDSFeature	87294c72-f260-42f3-a41b-981a2ffce37a
TaskListNewsFeed	ff13819a-a9ac-46fb-8163-9d53357ef98d
AnnouncementsList	00bfea71-d1ce-42de-9c63-a44004ce0104
PictureLibrary	00bfea71-52d4-45b3-b544-b1c71b620109
GettingStarted	4aec7207-0d02-4f4f-aa07-b370199cd0c7
WorkflowServiceStore	2c63df2b-ceab-42c6-aeff-b3968162d4b1
SiteFeed	15a572c6-e545-4d32-897a-bab6f5846e18
ContactsList	00bfea71-7e6d-4186-9ba8-c047ac750105
CustomList	00bfea71-de22-43b2-a848-c05709900100
DocumentLibrary	00bfea71-e717-4e80-aa17-d0c71b360101
DiscussionsList	00bfea71-6a49-43fa-b535-d15c05500108
DataSourceLibrary	00bfea71-f381-423d-b9d1-da7a54c50110
DataConnectionLibrary	00bfea71-dbd7-4f72-b8cb-da7ac0440130
ExternalList	00bfea71-9549-43f8-b978-e47e54a10600
EventsList	00bfea71-ec85-4903-972d-ebe475780106
XmlFormLibrary	00bfea71-1e1d-4562-b56a-f05371bb0115
IPFSWebFeatures	a0e5a010-1329-49d4-9e09-f280cdbed37d

Now, manually activating the “SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Collection Features” from the “Site Settings > Site Collection Features” results in the following additional features being activated at the Site scope:

Display Name	Id
PremiumSite	8581a8a7-cf16-4770-ac54-260265ddb0b2
FastEndUserHelpCollection	6e8f2b8d-d765-4e69-84ea-5702574c11d6
SearchDrivenContent	592ccb4a-9304-49ab-aab1-66638198bb58
VisioWebAccess	9fec40ea-a949-407d-be09-6cba26470a0c
BizAppsSiteTemplates	4248e21f-a816-4c88-8cab-79d82201da7b
BizAppsCTypes	43f41342-1a37-4372-8ca0-b44d881e4434
BizAppsFields	5a979115-6b71-45a5-9881-cdc872051a69
MossChart	875d1044-c0cf-4244-8865-d2a0039c2a49
SearchExtensions	5eac763d-fbf5-4d6f-a76b-eded7dd7b0a5

Activating the “SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Features” from “Site Settings > Site Features” results in the following additional features being activated at the Web scope:

Display Name	Id
BizAppsListTemplates	065c78be-5231-477e-a972-14177cc5b3c7
PremiumWeb	0806d127-06e6-447a-980e-2e90b03101b8
ReportListTemplate	2510d73f-7109-4ccc-8a1c-314894deeb3a

Additional Site-scoped Features

Display Name	Id
PublishingPrerequisites	a392da98-270b-4e85-9769-04c0fde267aa
PublishingSite	f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa
SignaturesWorkflowSPD	c4773de6-ba70-4583-b751-2a7b1dc67e3a
InPlaceRecords	da2e115b-07e4-49d9-bb2c-35e93bb9fca9
SearchEngineOptimization	17415b1d-5339-42f9-a10b-3fef756b84d1
SignaturesWorkflowSPD1033	a42f749f-8633-48b7-9b22-403b40190409
Navigation	89e0306d-453b-4ec5-8d68-42067cdbf98e
PublishingMobile	57cc6207-aebf-426e-9ece-45946ea82e4
SignaturesWorkflow	6c09612b-46af-4b2f-8dfc-59185c962a29
SearchTaxonomyRefinementWebPartsHtml	8c34f59f-8dfb-4a39-9a08-7497237e3dc4
ViewFormPagesLockDown	7c637b23-06c4-472d-9a9a-7c175762c5c4
ReviewWorkflowsSPD	b5934f65-a844-4e67-82e5-92f66aafe912
PublishingLayouts	d3f51be2-38a8-4e44-ba84-940d35be1566
PublishingResources	aebc918d-b20f-4a11-a1db-9ed84d79c87e
ReviewWorkflowsSPD1033	3bc0c1e1-b7d5-4e82-afd7-9f7e59b60409
HtmlDesign	a4c654e4-a8da-4db3-897c-a386048f7157
Translation	4e7276bc-e7ab-4951-9c4b-a74d44205c32
SearchTaxonomyRefinementWebParts	67ae7d04-6731-42dd-abe1-ba2a5eaa3b48
EnterpriseWikiLayouts	a942a218-fa43-4d11-9d85-c01e3e3a37cb
DocId	b50e3104-6812-424f-a011-cc90e6327318
ReviewWorkflows	02464c6a-9d07-4f30-ba04-e9035cf5439
TranslationWorkflow	c6561405-ea03-40a9-a57f-f25472942a22

Additional Web-scoped Features

DisplayName	Id
TransMgmtLib	29d85c25-170c-4df9-a641-12db0b9d4130
MetaDataNav	7201d6a4-a5d3-49a1-8c19-19c4bac6e668
RollupPages	dffaae84-60ee-413a-9600-1cf431cf0560
Hold	9e56487c-795a-4077-9425-54a1ecb84282
Publishing	22a9ef51-737b-4ff2-9346-694633fe4416
ObaSimpleSolution	d250636f-0a26-4019-8425-a5232d592c01
EMailRouting	d44a1358-e800-47e8-8180-adf2d0f77543
DocumentRouting	7ad5272a-2694-4349-953e-ea5ef290e97c

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