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I am in the process of refreshing a dev farm from production. Typically I do this with database migration approach. I treat services DB’s the same as the content DB’s. I will take a backup of the database in production SQL and then restore the DB in Dev and go through the mount process (forRead more

We are running SharePoint 2013 on-prem. I detached a Central Admin server that was part of the farm and also had the Crawler, Content Processing, Analytics processing, Query Processing and had a single partition. When I reattached the server to the farm it no longer was part of the search topology with the components specified.Read more

We have automatic password change feature in SharePoint 2013. We have different managed accounts. Farm Account, application pool accounts and service accounts are created as managed accounts. Are there any consequences if we enable automatic password change settings to all these types of accounts? Or is there any recommendation that enable automatic password change settingsRead more

I’m trying to show an SharePoint 2016 integrated mode SSRS 2016 report in a SharePoint 2013 farm but I’m getting this error. These farms are at same domain. I don’t want to allow iFrames at SharePoint 2016 farm with <WebPartPages:AllowFraming runat=”server” /> Can I allow only one certain report to display in an iFrame? WhatRead more

I’m planning to travel to Yunnan and would like to tour a coffee farm. There are visits included in longer tours, e.g. here or here. However, I would like to book this as a day trip. Are there farms in Yunnan that offer this to tourists? Would it be a good idea to contact theRead more

I am trying to create a scheduled task to export a SharePoint list that is hosted in another domain. I have the username and password for the account that has access to the that list, and I am looking for a script that would export the list using the provided account.Read more

I logged in my Windows Server 2012 R2 with the account svc_install which has administrators permissions as it belongs in the administrators group. I installed the prerequisites and ran the setup for SharePoint 2016 server. I did not run the SharePoint configuration wizard as I wanted to install the rest of sharepoint using powershell. IRead more

I have requirement to restore the search service application from production environment to test server. I am bit confused with the below two command lets. Restore-SPFarm -Directory -Item ‘Farm\Shared Services’ -Backupmethod -Full Restore-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Name “SearchServiceApplication” -ApplicationPool $ applicationPool -AdminSearchServiceInstance $ searchInstance -DatabaseName “SearchServiceApplication_Admindb” -DatabaseServer “SQLServer1” Could any one please elaborate the specific scenarios of theRead more

I have two SharePoint Enterprise farms in the same domain. Farm 1 is hosting the intranet and the User Profile Service Application and Farm 2 is hosting all the “project sites”. They both are using Claims Based authentication. Users want to be able to follow these projects sites, but their My Site and user profileRead more

I am looking for explicite examples/documentations/good practices describing the way to install, configure and use SCOM to monitor SharePoint 2016 Farm Thanks,Read more