Migrating a VMware VM to AWS
This document describes the steps necessary to migrate a VMWare virtual machine (.vmx and accompanying .vmdk) to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Setting up AWS Command Line Tools There are many...
View ArticleUsing Powershell to export & import farm solutions
Here is a handy script that will export all farm solution .wsp and .cab files at once: [sourcecode language=”powershell”] Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell $farm = Get-SPFarm $farm.Solutions...
View ArticleAWS Disaster Recovery Demo
This post has been moved to the Applied Information Sciences corporate blog: http://blog.appliedis.com/2012/08/27/aws-disaster-recovery-plan-demo/. The post AWS Disaster Recovery Demo appeared first...
View ArticleAWS Disaster Recovery Automation w/ Powershell
Amazon has provided several powerful SDKs for developers to interface with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Anything that can be completed using the AWS console can be accomplished via SDK. In this post, we...
View ArticleSetting up SharePoint 2010 in Amazon Web Services
I was recently given the task to migrate a SharePoint environment to Amazon Web Services (AWS). With limited exposure to cloud computing, I was trying to figure out what shopping on Amazon had to do...
View ArticleMigrating a VMware VM to Azure
This document describes the steps necessary to migrate a VMWare virtual machine (.vmx and accompanying .vmdk) to the Microsoft Azure cloud. More detailed documentation is available from Microsoft:...
View ArticleErrors and solutions when creating your first SharePoint 2013 App
“The system account cannot perform this action” After reading this blog post, I logged of and logged back in as my “sp-admin” account and tried again; this time it worked….well made it to the next...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Default KeywordQuery Results Columns
Here is a list of the columns that are returned by default for relevant results of a KeywordQuery: Rank DocId FileType SecondaryFileExtension TitleAuthor Size Path Description EditorOWSUSER...
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Small .pdf files reporting –“The item has been truncated in the index because...
Recently, I encountered an issue with SharePoint 2013 search crawls where .pdf files smaller than 1 MB were reporting a warning: “The item has been truncated in the index because it exceeds the maximum...
View ArticleSearch Service Application stops working after adding a user to Administrators
I came across an interesting bug while trying to add a user the Administrators of a Search Service Application in SharePoint 2013. When I tried adding the user, and clicking OK, and error is returned:...
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