Thursday, July 2, 2015

Patch order in SharePoint 2013 while joining server into farm



Patch order in SharePoint 2013 while joining server into farm

This question arises many times in minds of SharePoint administrators when they scale out the farms. In which or what order they need to patch he new servers to join in the existing farm. In this article I am providing the patching order of SharePoint farm to scale out.

1.    Install the Pre-requisites of SharePoint
2.    Install the SharePoint binaries
3.    Install the SP1
4.    Install the Language packs
5.    Install the SP1 for language packs
6.    Install the Cumulative updates(DEC,FEB,APR,JUNE…)
7.    Finally Run the Products and configuration wizard to join the new server into the farm.
8.Patch APP fabric if required

Note: The LP,CU’s should follow according to your existing servers in farm only. The above is the Order that should follow.
                                                                  
 


I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

How to Sync a user account name which was changed in AD to SharePoint



How to Sync a user account name which was changed in AD to SharePoint.

This is the scenario most of the administrators will face in their experience like the user will left the company and after some days he joins back. when we create a new user name for that person even though we see the old name in SharePoint after the many successful imports.

Solution: SharePoint doesn't understand this change automatically. We need to make it understand by giving instruction via STSADM command

When user's Account Name (or Login Name: Domain\User) renamed in Active Directory, you have to use stsadm -o migrateuser command to associate the new AD account with an existing SharePoint profile.

STSADM:
stsadm -o migrateuser -oldlogin EU\susanapi -newlogin EU\suzanapi –ignoresidhistory

Power shell :
Move-SPUser –Identity "DOMAIN\OldUserName" –NewAlias "Domain\NewUserName"

                                                                                       
 

I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Resetting of pass phrase by power shell



Resetting of pass phrase by power shell

This is a common issue that most of the administrators face once in there work. In this article I am providing the steps how to reset the new pass phrase if we lost the old one.

Open Power Shell and execute the following script. Enter the new pass phrase when prompted:

 



 Confirm the Pass phrase










Click Yes



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Adding a content DB in SharePoint 2013



Adding a content DB in SharePoint 2013

You can add a content database to a SharePoint 2013 farm by using the SharePoint Central Administration website or Windows Power Shell

You can use the procedures that are described in this article to create a new content database and attach it to a web application. If you are using Windows authentication to connect to SQL Server, the user account must also be a member the SQL Server dbcreator fixed server role on the SQL Server instance where the database will be created. If you are using SQL authentication to connect to SQL Server, the SQL authentication account that you specify when you create the content database must have dbcreator permission on the SQL Server instance where the database will be created.

To add a content database to a web application by using Central Administration 

1.    Verify that the user account that is performing this operation is a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group.
2.    Start SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.
o    For Windows Server 2008 R2:
§  Click Start, click Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Products, and then click SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.
o    For Windows Server 2012:
§  On the Start screen, click SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.
If SharePoint 2013 Central Administration is not on the Start screen:
§  Right-click Computer, click All apps, and then click SharePoint 2013 Central Administration.
3.    On the SharePoint Central Administration website, click Application Management.
4.    In the Databases section, click Manage content databases.
5.    On the Manage Content Databases page, click Add a content database.
6.    On the Add Content Database page:
1.    Specify a web application for the new database.
2.    Specify a database server to host the new database.
3.    Specify the authentication method that the new database will use and supply an account name and password, if they are necessary.
ImportantImportant:
The account name and password must already exist as a SQL Server login.
4.    Specify the name of the failover database server, if one exists.
5.    Specify the number of top-level sites that can be created before a warning is issued. By default, this is 2,000.
6.    Specify the total number of top-level sites that can be created in the database. By default, this is 5,000.
7.    Click OK.

To add a content database to a web application by using Windows Power Shell 

1.    Verify that you have the following memberships:
o    securityadmin fixed server role on the SQL Server instance.
o    db_owner fixed database role on all databases that are to be updated.
o    Administrators group on the server on which you are running the Windows PowerShell cmdlets.
An administrator can use the Add-SPShellAdmin cmdlet to grant permissions to use SharePoint 2013 Products cmdlets.
NoteNote:
If you do not have permissions, contact your Setup administrator or SQL Server administrator to request permissions. For additional information about Windows PowerShell permissions, see Add-SPShellAdmin

2.    On the Start menu, click All Programs.
3.    Click Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Products.
4.    Click SharePoint 2013 Management Shell.
5.    At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command:
New-SPContentDatabase -Name <ContentDbName> -WebApplication <WebApplicationName>
Where:
o    <ContentDbName> is the name of the content database to create.
o    <WebApplicationName> is the name of the web application to which the new database is attached.

 


I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

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