Many companies still have SharePoint on-premises. Some of them have Azure Active Directory integrated with their SharePoint on-premises environment. This can be achieved quite easily by following the steps described in this article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/saas-apps/sharepoint-on-premises-tutorial In this article a custom solution AzureCP is used to configure SharePoint with the claims provider...
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SharePoint Search Crawl Issue That Makes You Wanna Scream
Recently I was migrating a SharePoint 2016 farm to SharePoint 2019. Not that exciting, because the customer did not have any farm solutions or customizations other than a custom claims provider for ADFS. The SharePoint 2019 farm needed to be configured using the Azure Active Directory. We used the solution...
Continue reading...Inconvenient duplicate accounts in People Picker with multiple Claims Providers
More and more customers are integrating their SharePoint on-premises environment with Azure Active Directory. The solution AzureCP is used to accomplish this quite easily. The solution installs a custom claims provider and you can configure some using the settings interface that is available in Central Administration. There is a good...
Continue reading...Least-privileged administration in SharePoint 2013: SQL Server Role DBCREATOR
When installing SharePoint you need an account to set up each server in the farm. This setup account also needs access to SQL Server. However, you probably do not use the default Domain Administrator account (and if you do: shame on you!). More and more companies ask for a least-privileged...
Continue reading...Find all activated Web Analytics Features
When upgrading SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 the web analytics service application and features should be removed prior to the upgrade process. This is because web analytics is now part of the Search architecture. It is no longer a service by itself. While reading this TechNet article : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263026(v=office.15).aspx#Before I...
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