In the previous post I have described the current SharePoint 2013 environment and the steps to be taken to implement SSL and get it all back working like charm. In this second part of the series I will describe how to deploy and install your certificates with PowerShell. If you...
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Implementing SSL with PowerShell for existing SharePoint 2013 farm – Part 1
You have an existing SharePoint 2013 multi server farm running smoothly. And then, at one day, you are asked to implement SSL. Everything needs to run with https. And when users are using http, then the request needs to be redirected to https. Easy-peasy right? In these series of posts...
Continue reading...Inconvenient Test-SPContentDatabase warnings
Last week I installed August 2015 CU on our SharePoint 2013 farm. During the first PSCONFIG I noticed more warnings then usual (or I was dreaming the last time). In the log file I read the following message, one for each content database: The [<name>] web application is configured with...
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...New App in Town: Mavention Profile Info
In the last few months I worked on a intranet portal project together with my colleague Albert-Jan Schot (aka Appie). During this project we encountered that SharePoint’s default webpart Profile Info was not sufficient for the customer’s request. Appie wrote a blog post about this. The customer would like to...
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