Great series Shane! appreciate you putting it together and on youtube, purchased premium content just to show a bit of gratitude for you good work on this channel.
I do have two for you. 1 - Domain AD Certificate Authority, SSL Https setup for a SharePoint Server web app 2 - PowerShell DSC to spin up test environments quickly
Thanks Shane - Still an excellent series in 2022. I've followed it using Windows Server 2022, SQL Server 2019 and SharePoint 2019. Almost all worked just fine.
Fantastic Guide Shane, well explained and demonstrated with some great 'talk' that really helped me understand a few more internal things in Sharepoint a lot more ;) Look forward to seeing more Sharepoint 2016 content on here from you ;)
FYI - The issue I had using the "CreateSearch2013" Powershell script provided on your buddy's website was the AppPoolName didn't match the one you used in your demonstration. After I fixed that (removed the word Sharepoint) from it, the script ran successfully. You did mention to check that in the video as well.
Excellent stuff here! You've done a great job making these videos. I've installed my own farm on my own personal computer in less than 5 hours! Thanks a lot!
Awesome videos Shane!! Thanks so much for all your hard work. I was able to follow these videos and now have a working SharePoint 2016 farm. Keep up the good work!
Hello Shane, i just have one question regarding the on premise SharePoint and the profile import, the import from AD in central admin works perfectly, but after creating a site collection and site the people picker doesn't see any users that are imported from AD. and im stumped.
Great Video! very useful especially the regedit the AD change for profile. One of the things I do is add links on the root admin site to get directly to search and user profile service
Thanks for this - wonderful series. If we're going to set up a hybrid scenario would we still follow these basic steps and then tackle the hybrid or would we need to modify some of these steps first? Is this addressed in the premium guide?
We're looking to do hybrid search, profiles, and Onedrive for Business. Already have an O365 tenant (using Onedrive for Business, amongst other services) and this will be 99% Sharepoint Online, with an on-premises for a small number of sites where the client won't allow their data to be in the cloud.
The script you use at 34:39 minutes to create the search service... I have sharepoint 2016 and used the script at toddklindt's site and changed to "default service app pool" and when attempting to go into service applications, "Search Service Application" it comes back to unable to find. Any chance on finding out how to fix this issue?
Shane, I have been following your guides for install however I am having an issue after the main install when I am trying to configure things all options within the admin panel are grayed out I can't create anything new I've tried doing web searches and have done things like giving the account admin rights elevating the IE window disabling UAT but it is still grayed out. Got any suggestions?
When I click on the Search Service Application, I get an error message saying "Server Error in '/' Application. Parser Error Message: The resource object with key 'SearchAppAdminDashboard_Title' was not found". It seems to be an issue with the SharePoint Central Admin site not having all of the resources, but I can't figure out how to fix it.
G'day Shane, How can you get the SharePoint Management Shell before installing SharePoint? When searched online I can only see SharePoint Online Management Shell for SharePoint online but not On-Premises. We use SP 2016. Any suggestions? Thank you
Thanks so much. Quick question. If I want to experiment with Microsoft Office. Where do I load it. Domain Controller or on the SharePoint Server....Or can I access the SPDemo from a windows machine.. ie. uploading files etc. I just want to play around using different office formats
Hi Shayne excellent tutorial do you have document stepbystep when creating sharepoint minrole?in ur video u created singlefarm using PS if using minrole will it be same steps? and last..i have application team from UAT to production site how is the deployment work?thanks
Not sure what I missed. On full crawl. 1. A component required for crawling this type of content is not registered with this application server. View the event logs for more information. 2. Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has "Full Read" permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled. Thank you again for your time, it's appreciated.
We created sp_content as an AD user and we set sp_content as the default access account for search. Doesn't it need read access to the content? I didn't see anywhere we gave it that.
Found the issue. I tried the alternate method of specifying the hostnames instead of just disabling the loopback as in your video. After switching back to your method the crawl worked. I'll need to figure out the other one.
Good day Shane, Thanks for your previous answer. I would like to know what is best practices for seting up sites with a large data set. I Finally configured my share point server but I have about 1.2 tb worth of documents which i need to upload to sharepoint. My concern is if I use the portal site with all its sub sites in department order it might make the portal database to large to manage and do effective backups on. should I therefore create new web apps in department order and just create links in the portal site or is there a better way to handle this?
Site collections. You can put site collections in their own databases. So make all the department sites be site collections, not sub sites. portal.contoso.com/sites/hr portal.contoso.com/sites/accounting etc.
hi shane .. i have followed your tutorial for sharepoint 2013 installation.. you said exact same steps to be followed.. please inform localserverrole in not recognized as valid cmdlet in sp 2013 so i omitted it.. will there by any difference in est of the settings or anything additional.. grateful
Great guide, really helped me out. I wonder if you could make a short video of a later process once a basic SharePoint site has been created. On how to make it accessible externally though either intranet or internet so that users can login remotely. Thanks
Matt - Email me shane.young at boldzebras dot com and lets chat through exactly what you need. Once we have you straight I will turn it into a video. In my head what you want to do is pretty straightforward but I am probably missing something.
Eric - You have a fully functional domain with SharePoint? And you want to add a second domain? If that is correct then yeah, you will need to do some type of trust at the AD level. SharePoint will just roll with the punches after you solve this issue at the AD level.
Great videos!! I am new to SharePoint and your videos helps me a lot. I also have some confusions. Why do you need two site collections, my site and portal? Also, when do you need site collections and when do you use sub site. Again, I really appreciate your video guide.
You have two web applications, and in each web application, you have a site collection. This isn't required, just a typical design we use to provide some separation.
Does the Newsfeed function in my site support portal? When I am playing around with it, I found that the Newsfeed web part doesn't work in team site under portal, the start conversation block didnt show up. But if I create a team site under my site, the Newsfeed web part has a start conversation block.
Thank you for the great video series. Very clear and easy to follow. Made it to video 6 in the series, got this error trying to configure the farm. Cannot Connect to Database Master at SQL Server at “” . The Database might not exist, or the current user does not have permission to connect to it. SQL vm is reachable from SharePoint vm and vice versa. Checked firewall, service account sufficient permission to connect to DB server, TCP/IP, SQL associated services are running. Am I missing something? Please share your experience or any suggestions. Thanks
I purchased the content because of an issue with the Search Application. Even using the download, I get an error at the end of the script on the $clone.Activate(). Exception calling "Activate" with "0" argument(s): "Could not connect to the HostController service on server xxx Topology Activation could not be started." All other statements worked with no issues.
Do you have a multi-server farm? I bet you do. Need to make a slight change to make it work there. You need to change line 32 of the CreateSearch script to: $searchServiceInstance = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance $searchServerName If you are still having problems please email me shane.young at BoldZebras.com and I will help you get it fixed.
I have almost the same problem, all statements worked except the last one that return the following error: Exception calling "Activate" with "0" argument(s): "Topology does not contain any components of type Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.Topology.C ontentProcessingComponent"
Thanks Shane. Really helpful video series. One question - have you tried setting up Microsoft Identity Manager and SP connector for two-way AD communication.
I have but haven't made any content for it yet. It is on the to-do list. Subscribe to the channel or sign up for the Newsletter on Bold Zebras to be notified when I post it. I will try to remember to also update this comment but no promises. Thanks for watching.
Thanks Shane for the video, I am trying to set this up in testing and I have one SharePoint server and one SQL server should I choose the single server option or will I need to choose custom? when running all SharePoint on one server and SQL on seperate.
I want to add the DOMAIN\spups user to the ADSI for configure Replicating Directory Changes on the Configuration Naming Context for the domain. based on the instructions: Run ADSIEDIT.msc. Connect to the Configuration partition. Select Configuration in the Select a Well-Known Naming Context drop-down list. Right-click the Configuration partition and choose Properties. Select the Security tab. Add the DOMAIN\spups user to the list and give it Replicating Directory Changes permission. but the Add button is inactive for me. are there any special permisions which I have to add to my account before? The buttons are inactive for all users PS: I have an admin profile
Hi Shane, Thank you so much for your tutorial I'm quite new in this field, so maybe my question is stupid.When I type $proxy.Provision() I get this message "You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression" and also the Provision doesn't list when I press Tab.In the end "Usage and Health Data Collection Proxy" service is Stopped.Thank you for your time
It depends on the language you are using in your Sharepoint-Installation. I was facing the same problem until i changed it in '[...] where {$_.typename - eq "Proxy für die Sammlung von Verwendungs- und Integritätsdaten"' (in my case it's german). Use the typename in the language of your Sharepoint-Installation and you should be fine :)
Hi Shane, excellent tutorials. I have followed your steps but I’m having trouble creating a site collection with the error Server Error ‘/‘ Application. Which points making changes to web.config configuration File to make the error viewable. We’ve followed trouble shooting guides for this which are online but have not had any success. We’re also wary of making changes that you haven’t suggested in your videos. Any input would be much appreciated.
trying your script and I get: New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication : A database exception occurred when creating Search Application: Cannot find the principal 'mydomain\spfarm', because it does not exist or you do not have permission. (mydomain\spfarm is a what I used instead of sp_farm)
We fixed it. We had to give the sp_install account SA in SQL to run the script, then it was fine. What version of SQL are you on? This customer was 2016 so we are assuming some default permission thing in the latest SQL 2016 patch caused the issue but not sure.
Thanks again for your videos, very helpful! I had a question about configuring a 2 server farm for high availability. Using the powershell script that creates the config db, i assume i create the 1st server as one set of roles, then join the 2nd server to the farm using the other set of roles. Once the servers are up, would I then use the "Convert Server Role In This Farm" option to choose the other roles for each server so both servers have all roles? Just trying to figure out what all i would need to do to configure with HA. Thanks!
That sounds like you are on the right track. Great thing is once you are in central admin changing roles is pretty easy to do and you can mess with them until then goes come home.
ok when I configured the first server, I chose "webfrontendwithdistributedcache". So how do I add additional roles to this server? The "Convert Server Role In This Farm" does not work. Do I have to choose "Custom" when running the initial PS script to configure the server role? I need 2 servers that both run all services. Thanks!
I got an error about services needing to be disabled in order to "change" the role. I ended up doing custom on both. I did notice I don't have the ability to stop/start services in CA for the 2nd server I added to the farm. Again, I added the 2nd server as a custom role. Everything is stopped but Distributed Cache, MS SP Foundation Incoming Email and Workflow Timer Service. Is that what I should be seeing in a 2 server HA environment when both servers are configured with the "Custom" role? All services in the farm show a status of compatible. I've just had trouble finding any documentation on a 2 server HA environment. It's all 4 servers or more. Thanks again for your responses!
Hi Shane I have reached the point where I need to run the search application script, but it seems that site you have no longer exists for toddklindt.com. Where can I find a copy of this script?
I noticed each service application you use either Default Application pool or create a new one how to determined what to avoid when creating or not app pool.?
The way I did it in the video is my best practice. Generally speaking, you want all of your web apps in one app pool and all of your service applications in another. There are exceptions but that is generally the right way to go.
Thank you for this series. Could please make one last video with testing a user and using sharepoint. I mean how can you use sharepiont with end user. if you get what i mean.
Hmmm. I am getting a "CANNOT CONNECT TO DATABASE MASTER AT SQL SERVER AT SERVERNAME. THE DATABASE MIGHT NOT EXIST, OR THE CURRENT USER DOES NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO CONNECT DURING INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING SHAREPOINT" error. When I used the wizard it worked. I double checked the sp_farm account password. Any ideas why management shell command failed?
No, if one works the other one should work. That is kind of strange. I would guess typo type of answer but not 100% sure. Do you have screenshots or notes on exactly what you did? Happy to look at them and see if I can have a better guess? shane.young at boldzebras.com if you want to email me anything to review.
I gave up trying to find the issue. So I just purchased your instructions with the script files and they work perfectly and the configuration is MUCH easier with the scripts :) UPDATE...well until page 20 and the POPULATE CONTAINERS button, I get a LDAP server is unavailable. Emailed you about it
Hi Shane. Great video. Having issues with Secure Store Service. When I click on it, I get the error “Cannot complete this action as the secure store shared service is not responding. Please contact your administrator” Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Yes the service is running. This is the only problem we've had so far, and its stopping us from generating a new key. Everything else has gone really well. Thanks for your help!
Grant “FULL” control to “Farm Account” in the Secure Store service application. Go to: Central Administration >> Application Management >> Manage Service Applications >> Pick Secure Store Service >> Click On “Permission” in Ribbon >> Add your Farm account and set Full Control. Do an IISReset in cmd and the problem should be solved!
Hi Shane, everything was working great for us until 27:09 when its time to create a new service application and our New button is grayed out. Any idea why this would be? We have check permissions and the account has farm admin permissions. Help!
Great video series. Thanks for putting up a descent walk-through without omitting "some little step" that others may assume the end user already knows. Only 240 views in 30 days??? "Com'on people...This is great stuff here!!!" A couple of points... - Put the link to Todd's site in the text description. I can be somewhat hard to read on the video and his name is hard to spell when sounded out. - In the sitemaster rule near the end, should it have been my.company.com/sitemaster*??? - Although single server is easiest to demo and "play" with, I (and I'm sure others) would be staging this up in a (near-production) farm. Although min-role may be ideal with a 8 VMs, I would like to know the installation and impact of setting up a couple of roles per server via the -custom method: So server1 has services/search while server2 has WFE/DCS, etc...
Thanks Benjamin. -The link to Todd's site is www.toddklindt.com I will get it added to the description also. Good suggestion. - Nope sitemaster* is correct. If you look at the logs SharePoint converts it to that funky URL to cause optimal confusion. :) - I will try to make a video in the future doing a deeper dive on multi-farm. To help in the short run when I was hosting Todd's podcast I actually talked about this topic a little. At least will help you get started. ua-cam.com/video/NzLtBE1Bktc/v-deo.htmlm15s That is a link straight to the discussion on minrole. Great feedback. Keep it coming. And make sure you subscribe. ;)
Shane, thank you for your videos they have been a great help. However I'm experiencing issues creating the SPProfileServiceApplication via Powershell (54:00 min mark). I'm getting Object reference not set to an instance, however running Get-SPServiceApplicationPool I have confirmed the spelling and presence of "Default Service App Pool". The only previous step I did not complete was giving sp_install "replicate directory changes". Just trying to determine why my issue is.
Is there a script for creating the "SharePoint_Admin_Content_DB" for a multi-server farm? We would prefer not to have the GUIDs attached to the database name.
You just need to change the -LocalServerRole parameter to the appropriate setting for you. technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt743704(v=office.16).aspx
HI, sorry for my english .... .... i have a problem after create Secure Store Service, when a click to go in the page to "Generate New Key" show an error: Cannot complete this action as the Secure Store Shared Service is not responding. Please contact your administrator. IISRESET do not resolve the problem Thanks
Grant “FULL” control to “Farm Account” in the Secure Store service application. Go to: Central Administration >> Application Management >> Manage Service Applications >> Pick Secure Store Service >> Click On “Permission” in Ribbon >> Add your Farm account and set Full Control. Do an IISReset in cmd and the problem should be solved!
Being English I get sports rivalries. However I have no idea who you follow as I googled "Pitsburgh Steelers rivals" and found just about every football club. So who is your team? Oh - very helpful videos too!
My brother-in-law is a Dolphins fan for the same reason. Soccer is finally starting to blow up here so hopefully one day I have a similar story. FC Cincinnati has been a pretty big draw.
After creating the data base with the pow didnot powershell , it didnot appear on the sql server data base ? is it normal ? bytheway there was no error after the step of passprashe , and now i am config share point products and no error elso , so does that mean that my database wasnot created?
if any one was facing the same issue ,I solved this problem , it was beacuse the script of tod was assuming that the service app pool name is default sharepoint service app pool and we already created it as default service app pool , , this is the second line of the script , i changed it into " saAppPoolName = Get-SPServiceApplicationPool "Default Service App Pool$ and worked after 16 hours searching :D
You have a typo in your Application Pool name. I would compare what you have to what the script is looking for. Run this cmdlet: Get-SPServiceApplicationPool You should see as one of the items: Default SharePoint Service App Pool I bet you have a typo. You can just update Todd's script to reflect the value you have.
Great Videos. I did buy the premium as don't like typing :). I wondered if you have anything on how to find all the checked out files in a site collection using a web part I keep seeing something about managed propitious 'ows_CheckedoutUser'? Any help / pointers would be great. Thanks again
Hmmm. I have never thought about that. Since I never have to touch it and there isn't a database with a GUID, I have never given it a single thought. I am sure your next question is how to avoid it, and I don't know. Sorry. Let me know A) If it is causing you any issues besides it is ugly? :) and B)If you find a way around the issue?
Hi, Great tutorial! I had sharepoint up and running in about 8 hours. It all worked for a couple of days but somehow Sharepoint cant be reached anymore from any pc my domain. Does anyone has a idea how to fix this? The server can be pinged and sites can be accessed from the internet where sharepoint is installed.
Hi, thanks for the replay! I can RDP into the sharepoint server. Another thing I forgot to mention is that when I open central admin or load up the portal on the sharepoint server itself, it's really really slow in loading up the requested pages.
There is a giant whitepaper linked on this page that should help. technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj714714.aspx I also wrote my version of the instructions but they are in my 2013 admin book.
Shane Young been there and its sp2013 and sql 2012. does not match up with sp2016 and sql2016. especially since there is no feature pack for sql2016. tried the rest and still get errors when i try to create a custom app via access 2016
found the link for sql2016 feature pack. The download link is: www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52676 Will try again from the checkpoint after the video 6 was completed
hello Shane, Thanks for the video. It has been really helpfull. i have hit a challenge and currently i'm completely stuck. I get an error when i try to create the site collections. Sorry, something went wrong The page cannot be displayed because your server's current configuration does not support it. To perform this task, use the command line operations in Stsadm.exe.
I get the same exact error. Also the create new site collection "createsite.aspx" link in central admin does no work. It shows a blank page. Also tried creating site collection with powershell but the command New-SPSite doesn't work. Error message said someting like the New-SPSite command wasn't there. Sorry need to log in again to get exact error message in powershell. Does this sound like the same issues you are having? The only thing i did different than Shane was to install sharepoint was using the domain\administrator account instead of sp_install. I accidentally messed up thinking that i was logged in with sp_install but was really logged in as domain\administrator and it was too late to switch back. I don't think this is why I am having the same problem as you though. Did you find a solution yet?
Never did find a solution so I'm going to try install again, but I just wanted to say thanks to Shane for creating these awesome videos! I really do appreciate them.
Good day Shane, Thanks for this great guide, I found a problem when running the crawl on my portal site, it complains about it has a NoCrawl flag? I checked when logging into that site and going to search settings but it is marked as search-able, is there a step I missed some how? url of item is: portal.domain.com/StyleLibrary/Forms/Allitems.aspx
Just a hint if someone gets problems with secure store key. Have a look at sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/228821/sharepoint-2016-secure-store-masterkey-cannot-be-set-problem-solved
Thank you as always for your great videos. I have read a bunch on distributed cache. I am getting error referencing possible cache issues. What is your opinion on the need to create new cache containers when building a small farm? blogs.technet.microsoft.com/anneste/2016/09/23/event-id-6398-the-execute-method-of-job-definition-microsoft-office-server-userprofiles-lmtrepopulationjob-id-xxx-threw-an-exception/
Great series Shane! appreciate you putting it together and on youtube, purchased premium content just to show a bit of gratitude for you good work on this channel.
Thank you. That really helps. If you have other suggestions for content I am all ears.
I do have two for you. 1 - Domain AD Certificate Authority, SSL Https setup for a SharePoint Server web app 2 - PowerShell DSC to spin up test environments quickly
Thanks Shane - Still an excellent series in 2022. I've followed it using Windows Server 2022, SQL Server 2019 and SharePoint 2019. Almost all worked just fine.
Awesome Pete. Love this stuff is still rocking it. 🤩🤩
Fantastic Guide Shane, well explained and demonstrated with some great 'talk' that really helped me understand a few more internal things in Sharepoint a lot more ;)
Look forward to seeing more Sharepoint 2016 content on here from you ;)
Still works using Subscription Edition. Just a few tweaks. So, I am time traveler? Nice video.
🤣 Awesome. I love to hear that, thanks for coming back to the future for the tip. 🌌
Amazing series, this helped me setup my SharePoint server for my college course perfectly and gave me some insight into SharePoint.
Very 😎 glad it helped. I once used this video to teach a college course. 🤓
FYI - The issue I had using the "CreateSearch2013" Powershell script provided on your buddy's website was the AppPoolName didn't match the one you used in your demonstration. After I fixed that (removed the word Sharepoint) from it, the script ran successfully. You did mention to check that in the video as well.
Cool. Thanks for the update.
man please continue your good work with all the services this video is amazing really great job
Thanks 😊
Excellent stuff here! You've done a great job making these videos. I've installed my own farm on my own personal computer in less than 5 hours! Thanks a lot!
Thank you. Knowing it helped you means a lot to me. Be sure to subscribe and tell your friends. ;)
Yeah, you helped a lot! I also love clean and pretty stuff on DB Server, for example :)
That is so much more important than most people give it credit for.
Awesome videos Shane!! Thanks so much for all your hard work. I was able to follow these videos and now have a working SharePoint 2016 farm. Keep up the good work!
Awesome. Glad to hear it worked out well for you.
Hello Shane, i just have one question regarding the on premise SharePoint and the profile import, the import from AD in central admin works perfectly, but after creating a site collection and site the people picker doesn't see any users that are imported from AD. and im stumped.
You are awesome Shane, Please keep up posting more useful videos like these :)
Great Video! very useful especially the regedit the AD change for profile. One of the things I do is add links on the root admin site to get directly to search and user profile service
I like it. 😎 Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for this - wonderful series. If we're going to set up a hybrid scenario would we still follow these basic steps and then tackle the hybrid or would we need to modify some of these steps first? Is this addressed in the premium guide?
Hi Scott. I don’t cover any hybrid in the premium guide. Boo me. What hybrid pieces are you going to set up?
We're looking to do hybrid search, profiles, and Onedrive for Business. Already have an O365 tenant (using Onedrive for Business, amongst other services) and this will be 99% Sharepoint Online, with an on-premises for a small number of sites where the client won't allow their data to be in the cloud.
The script you use at 34:39 minutes to create the search service... I have sharepoint 2016 and used the script at toddklindt's site and changed to "default service app pool" and when attempting to go into service applications, "Search Service Application" it comes back to unable to find. Any chance on finding out how to fix this issue?
Sorry been way too long. I am not sure why it wouldn’t work anymore. 😑
Shane, I have been following your guides for install however I am having an issue after the main install when I am trying to configure things all options within the admin panel are grayed out I can't create anything new I've tried doing web searches and have done things like giving the account admin rights elevating the IE window disabling UAT but it is still grayed out. Got any suggestions?
Do you need to make sure the browser is ran as an admin? That is my first guess.
Thank you I had to create a SharePoint site for My Engineering department for Development and this worked perfectly.
When I click on the Search Service Application, I get an error message saying "Server Error in '/' Application. Parser Error Message: The resource object with key 'SearchAppAdminDashboard_Title' was not found". It seems to be an issue with the SharePoint Central Admin site not having all of the resources, but I can't figure out how to fix it.
Sorry been a long time since I fixed SharePoint search. I am no help b
G'day Shane, How can you get the SharePoint Management Shell before installing SharePoint? When searched online I can only see SharePoint Online Management Shell for SharePoint online but not On-Premises. We use SP 2016. Any suggestions? Thank you
Thanks Shane. Everything working 100%. You rock!!!!!!!
Great to hear. 😎
Thanks so much. Quick question. If I want to experiment with Microsoft Office. Where do I load it. Domain Controller or on the SharePoint Server....Or can I access the SPDemo from a windows machine.. ie. uploading files etc. I just want to play around using different office formats
Hi Shayne excellent tutorial do you have document stepbystep when creating sharepoint minrole?in ur video u created singlefarm using PS if using minrole will it be same steps? and last..i have application team from UAT to production site how is the deployment work?thanks
Not sure what I missed. On full crawl. 1. A component required for crawling this type of content is not registered with this application server. View the event logs for more information. 2. Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has "Full Read" permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled.
Thank you again for your time, it's appreciated.
I would delete the search service app and go through that section again.
Ok, will do. I was thinking I was missing something with spcontent permissions. I'll go through through it again. thank you for your time.
We created sp_content as an AD user and we set sp_content as the default access account for search. Doesn't it need read access to the content? I didn't see anywhere we gave it that.
Yes. It does need full read to the web app
Found the issue. I tried the alternate method of specifying the hostnames instead of just disabling the loopback as in your video. After switching back to your method the crawl worked. I'll need to figure out the other one.
Good day Shane, Thanks for your previous answer. I would like to know what is best practices for seting up sites with a large data set.
I Finally configured my share point server but I have about 1.2 tb worth of documents which i need to upload to sharepoint.
My concern is if I use the portal site with all its sub sites in department order it might make the portal database to large to manage and do effective backups on. should I therefore create new web apps in department order and just create links in the portal site or is there a better way to handle this?
Site collections. You can put site collections in their own databases. So make all the department sites be site collections, not sub sites. portal.contoso.com/sites/hr portal.contoso.com/sites/accounting etc.
Great video! Appreciate all the effort you put into it. Thank you!!
Thanks glad it helped.
hi shane .. i have followed your tutorial for sharepoint 2013 installation.. you said exact same steps to be followed.. please inform localserverrole in not recognized as valid cmdlet in sp 2013 so i omitted it.. will there by any difference in est of the settings or anything additional.. grateful
Excellent video series Shane, thank you
I am glad you enjoyed it. If you have any thoughts or suggestions for future topics let me know. Thank you.
Great guide, really helped me out. I wonder if you could make a short video of a later process once a basic SharePoint site has been created. On how to make it accessible externally though either intranet or internet so that users can login remotely. Thanks
+Matt Loughton Great suggestion. Couple other people have asked so consider it on the list.
Don't suppose you know of a guide that I could follow while there is no video?
Matt - Email me shane.young at boldzebras dot com and lets chat through exactly what you need. Once we have you straight I will turn it into a video. In my head what you want to do is pretty straightforward but I am probably missing something.
How would you add a second domain to an already existing SharePoint environment? Does a two-way trust need to be setup between domains?
Eric - You have a fully functional domain with SharePoint? And you want to add a second domain? If that is correct then yeah, you will need to do some type of trust at the AD level. SharePoint will just roll with the punches after you solve this issue at the AD level.
Great videos!! I am new to SharePoint and your videos helps me a lot.
I also have some confusions. Why do you need two site collections, my site and portal? Also, when do you need site collections and when do you use sub site.
Again, I really appreciate your video guide.
You have two web applications, and in each web application, you have a site collection. This isn't required, just a typical design we use to provide some separation.
Does the Newsfeed function in my site support portal? When I am playing around with it, I found that the Newsfeed web part doesn't work in team site under portal, the start conversation block didnt show up. But if I create a team site under my site, the Newsfeed web part has a start conversation block.
Thank you for the great video series. Very clear and easy to follow. Made it to video 6 in the series, got this error trying to configure the farm. Cannot Connect to Database Master at SQL Server at “” . The Database might not exist, or the current user does not have permission to connect to it.
SQL vm is reachable from SharePoint vm and vice versa. Checked firewall, service account sufficient permission to connect to DB server, TCP/IP, SQL associated services are running. Am I missing something? Please share your experience or any suggestions. Thanks
Not sure. Sorry. 😔
I purchased the content because of an issue with the Search Application. Even using the download, I get an error at the end of the script on the $clone.Activate(). Exception calling "Activate" with "0" argument(s): "Could not connect to the HostController service on server xxx Topology Activation could not be started." All other statements worked with no issues.
Give me a second and I will send you a potential fix.
Do you have a multi-server farm? I bet you do. Need to make a slight change to make it work there.
You need to change line 32 of the CreateSearch script to:
$searchServiceInstance = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance $searchServerName
If you are still having problems please email me shane.young at BoldZebras.com and I will help you get it fixed.
I have almost the same problem, all statements worked except the last one that return the following error:
Exception calling "Activate" with "0" argument(s): "Topology does not contain
any components of type Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.Topology.C
ontentProcessingComponent"
Hii Shane
Thanks for this amazing content .
My pleasure!
Thank you so much , great effort , very useful and impressive video
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Shane. Really helpful video series. One question - have you tried setting up Microsoft Identity Manager and SP connector for two-way AD communication.
I have but haven't made any content for it yet. It is on the to-do list. Subscribe to the channel or sign up for the Newsletter on Bold Zebras to be notified when I post it. I will try to remember to also update this comment but no promises. Thanks for watching.
Thank you.
Great Video Shane, helped me with setting up a test SharePoint 2019 server, out of interest do you have a video on setting up the App catalog?
I don't. Sorry.
Hi Shane, nice video. do you have any guide for Workflow manager 2016??
hi Shane i have hit the error that no one seems to talk about "sorry this site hasn't been shared with you" what can I do about this?
Thanks Shane for the video, I am trying to set this up in testing and I have one SharePoint server and one SQL server should I choose the single server option or will I need to choose custom? when running all SharePoint on one server and SQL on seperate.
Single should work just fine.
Top shelf stuff Shane!
I want to add the DOMAIN\spups user to the ADSI for configure Replicating Directory Changes on the Configuration Naming Context for the domain. based on the instructions:
Run ADSIEDIT.msc.
Connect to the Configuration partition.
Select Configuration in the Select a Well-Known Naming Context drop-down list.
Right-click the Configuration partition and choose Properties.
Select the Security tab.
Add the DOMAIN\spups user to the list and give it Replicating Directory Changes permission.
but the Add button is inactive for me. are there any special permisions which I have to add to my account before? The buttons are inactive for all users
PS: I have an admin profile
Thank you for the video! It was very clear and helped a lot.
Awesome.
Hi Shane, Thank you so much for your tutorial I'm quite new in this field, so maybe my question is stupid.When I type $proxy.Provision() I get this message "You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression" and also the Provision doesn't list when I press Tab.In the end "Usage and Health Data Collection Proxy" service is Stopped.Thank you for your time
That means you messed up a previous line and didn't create the $proxy variable correctly. I would try rerunning the whole section again.
This is happening for me as well
I replied to Matt's email. I am pretty sure the issue is going to be a typo in your service application app pool name from earlier steps. :)
It depends on the language you are using in your Sharepoint-Installation. I was facing the same problem until i changed it in '[...] where {$_.typename - eq "Proxy für die Sammlung von Verwendungs- und Integritätsdaten"' (in my case it's german). Use the typename in the language of your Sharepoint-Installation and you should be fine :)
make sure that you typed the name correctly same happened with me when i correct the service name it worked fine
Hi Shane, excellent tutorials. I have followed your steps but I’m having trouble creating a site collection with the error Server Error ‘/‘ Application. Which points making changes to web.config configuration File to make the error viewable. We’ve followed trouble shooting guides for this which are online but have not had any success. We’re also wary of making changes that you haven’t suggested in your videos. Any input would be much appreciated.
trying your script and I get: New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication : A database exception occurred when creating Search Application: Cannot find
the principal 'mydomain\spfarm', because it does not exist or you do not have permission. (mydomain\spfarm is a what I used instead of sp_farm)
One of my customers got this today also. Microsoft must have changed something. 😡
Any clues?
Not yet. I will check in with the customer on Monday. Check again with me in about 20 hours.
Thank you for your time!
We fixed it. We had to give the sp_install account SA in SQL to run the script, then it was fine. What version of SQL are you on? This customer was 2016 so we are assuming some default permission thing in the latest SQL 2016 patch caused the issue but not sure.
Great video Thank you for the walk-through.
Thanks again for your videos, very helpful! I had a question about configuring a 2 server farm for high availability. Using the powershell script that creates the config db, i assume i create the 1st server as one set of roles, then join the 2nd server to the farm using the other set of roles. Once the servers are up, would I then use the "Convert Server Role In This Farm" option to choose the other roles for each server so both servers have all roles? Just trying to figure out what all i would need to do to configure with HA. Thanks!
That sounds like you are on the right track. Great thing is once you are in central admin changing roles is pretty easy to do and you can mess with them until then goes come home.
Alright, we'll see what happens! I really appreciate your quick reply, these videos have been EXTREMELY helpful. Keep up the great work!
ok when I configured the first server, I chose "webfrontendwithdistributedcache". So how do I add additional roles to this server? The "Convert Server Role In This Farm" does not work. Do I have to choose "Custom" when running the initial PS script to configure the server role? I need 2 servers that both run all services. Thanks!
In central admin what happens when you try to change the role? Yes, you will need both ultimately to be custom.
I got an error about services needing to be disabled in order to "change" the role. I ended up doing custom on both. I did notice I don't have the ability to stop/start services in CA for the 2nd server I added to the farm. Again, I added the 2nd server as a custom role. Everything is stopped but Distributed Cache, MS SP Foundation Incoming Email and Workflow Timer Service. Is that what I should be seeing in a 2 server HA environment when both servers are configured with the "Custom" role? All services in the farm show a status of compatible. I've just had trouble finding any documentation on a 2 server HA environment. It's all 4 servers or more. Thanks again for your responses!
Hi Shane I have reached the point where I need to run the search application script, but it seems that site you have no longer exists for toddklindt.com. Where can I find a copy of this script?
Try tweeting @toddklindt not sure why the script is down.
I noticed each service application you use either Default Application pool or create a new one how to determined what to avoid when creating or not app pool.?
The way I did it in the video is my best practice. Generally speaking, you want all of your web apps in one app pool and all of your service applications in another. There are exceptions but that is generally the right way to go.
Thank you for this series. Could please make one last video with testing a user and using sharepoint. I mean how can you use sharepiont with end user. if you get what i mean.
I get the idea but not sure I have a video for that. Sorry.
Hmmm. I am getting a "CANNOT CONNECT TO DATABASE MASTER AT SQL SERVER AT SERVERNAME. THE DATABASE MIGHT NOT EXIST, OR THE CURRENT USER DOES NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO CONNECT DURING INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING SHAREPOINT" error. When I used the wizard it worked. I double checked the sp_farm account password. Any ideas why management shell command failed?
No, if one works the other one should work. That is kind of strange. I would guess typo type of answer but not 100% sure. Do you have screenshots or notes on exactly what you did? Happy to look at them and see if I can have a better guess? shane.young at boldzebras.com if you want to email me anything to review.
I gave up trying to find the issue. So I just purchased your instructions with the script files and they work perfectly and the configuration is MUCH easier with the scripts :)
UPDATE...well until page 20 and the POPULATE CONTAINERS button, I get a LDAP server is unavailable. Emailed you about it
Hi Shane.
Great video.
Having issues with Secure Store Service.
When I click on it, I get the error “Cannot complete this action as the secure store shared service is not responding. Please contact your administrator”
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Check the service on server in central admin and see if the Secure store service is running?
Yes the service is running.
This is the only problem we've had so far, and its stopping us from generating a new key. Everything else has gone really well.
Thanks for your help!
Two options. Try an iisreset. If that doesn't work delete the service app and try creating a new one.
Ill give that a try, thanks again!
Grant “FULL” control to “Farm Account” in the Secure Store service application. Go to: Central Administration >> Application Management >> Manage Service Applications >> Pick Secure Store Service >> Click On “Permission” in Ribbon >> Add your Farm account and set Full Control.
Do an IISReset in cmd and the problem should be solved!
Hi Shane, everything was working great for us until 27:09 when its time to create a new service application and our New button is grayed out. Any idea why this would be? We have check permissions and the account has farm admin permissions. Help!
Is the account a local administrator on the SharePoint server? The account you are logged into central admin as.
nevermind. we restarted the server and now have the New button
Great video series. Thanks for putting up a descent walk-through without omitting "some little step" that others may assume the end user already knows. Only 240 views in 30 days??? "Com'on people...This is great stuff here!!!"
A couple of points...
- Put the link to Todd's site in the text description. I can be somewhat hard to read on the video and his name is hard to spell when sounded out.
- In the sitemaster rule near the end, should it have been my.company.com/sitemaster*???
- Although single server is easiest to demo and "play" with, I (and I'm sure others) would be staging this up in a (near-production) farm. Although min-role may be ideal with a 8 VMs, I would like to know the installation and impact of setting up a couple of roles per server via the -custom method: So server1 has services/search while server2 has WFE/DCS, etc...
Thanks Benjamin.
-The link to Todd's site is www.toddklindt.com I will get it added to the description also. Good suggestion.
- Nope sitemaster* is correct. If you look at the logs SharePoint converts it to that funky URL to cause optimal confusion. :)
- I will try to make a video in the future doing a deeper dive on multi-farm. To help in the short run when I was hosting Todd's podcast I actually talked about this topic a little. At least will help you get started. ua-cam.com/video/NzLtBE1Bktc/v-deo.htmlm15s That is a link straight to the discussion on minrole.
Great feedback. Keep it coming. And make sure you subscribe. ;)
Great guide. Thanks a lot!
I created Team site but no edit button. I have full control
Shane, thank you for your videos they have been a great help. However I'm experiencing issues creating the SPProfileServiceApplication via Powershell (54:00 min mark). I'm getting Object reference not set to an instance, however running Get-SPServiceApplicationPool I have confirmed the spelling and presence of "Default Service App Pool". The only previous step I did not complete was giving sp_install "replicate directory changes". Just trying to determine why my issue is.
Well I used to wizard to create the user profile service, just has ugly DB names but seemed to have worked
Idk why but the $proxy.Provision() doesnt work in my shell...
@Shane Young do u know what I could do? Couldnt find anything on the internet
I am not sure. I would start by seeing if $proxy got created correctly and has data. I am guessing that is the issue but I am not sure.
@@ShanesCows what command do I use to check that?
@@ShanesCows ?
Is there a script for creating the "SharePoint_Admin_Content_DB" for a multi-server farm? We would prefer not to have the GUIDs attached to the database name.
You just need to change the -LocalServerRole parameter to the appropriate setting for you. technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt743704(v=office.16).aspx
Thanks Shane! Do I need to run this script on all of our SP2016 servers?
Nope. You will just run configuration wizard gui on all of the other servers and select the role.
Thanks for the help! Go BENGALS!!!
HI, sorry for my english ....
.... i have a problem after create Secure Store Service, when a click to go in the page to "Generate New Key" show an error: Cannot complete this action as the Secure Store Shared Service is not responding. Please contact your administrator.
IISRESET do not resolve the problem
Thanks
Did you go to the Services on Server and start the Secure Store Service? Any issues with that part?
same happens to me with the same error message , i restarted the service but still the issue there
Grant “FULL” control to “Farm Account” in the Secure Store service application. Go to: Central Administration >> Application Management >> Manage Service Applications >> Pick Secure Store Service >> Click On “Permission” in Ribbon >> Add your Farm account and set Full Control.
Do an IISReset in cmd and the problem should be solved!
Mr.Shane
Can you send to me the PDF file of the guide if this video
Being English I get sports rivalries. However I have no idea who you follow as I googled "Pitsburgh Steelers rivals" and found just about every football club. So who is your team? Oh - very helpful videos too!
The Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah, the Steelers are pretty much universally hated. :) Have you taken a liking to our American Football?
In the 80s when it first appeared on our TV, and I followed the Dolphins - Marino and all. Lost interest mainly since then!
My brother-in-law is a Dolphins fan for the same reason. Soccer is finally starting to blow up here so hopefully one day I have a similar story. FC Cincinnati has been a pretty big draw.
After creating the data base with the pow didnot powershell , it didnot appear on the sql server data base ? is it normal ? bytheway there was no error after the step of passprashe , and now i am config share point products and no error elso , so does that mean that my database wasnot created?
Did you get through this?
if any one was facing the same issue ,I solved this problem , it was beacuse the script of tod was assuming that the service app pool name is default sharepoint service app pool and we already created it as default service app pool , , this is the second line of the script , i changed it into
" saAppPoolName = Get-SPServiceApplicationPool "Default Service App Pool$
and worked after 16 hours searching :D
You have a typo in your Application Pool name. I would compare what you have to what the script is looking for.
Run this cmdlet:
Get-SPServiceApplicationPool
You should see as one of the items:
Default SharePoint Service App Pool
I bet you have a typo. You can just update Todd's script to reflect the value you have.
Do you have a video for site mailbox? Most clients have issues installing it.
I do not have one. Sorry. I have never had a request for it so I have never set it up actually.
Great Videos. I did buy the premium as don't like typing :). I wondered if you have anything on how to find all the checked out files in a site collection using a web part I keep seeing something about managed propitious 'ows_CheckedoutUser'? Any help / pointers would be great. Thanks again
John I wish I had an idea to offer you but I got nothing. Been too long since I have worked with Web Parts in a meaningful way. Sorry.
Why do we use proxy with any service
Why does the Application Discovery proxy have a guid in the name?
Hmmm. I have never thought about that. Since I never have to touch it and there isn't a database with a GUID, I have never given it a single thought. I am sure your next question is how to avoid it, and I don't know. Sorry. Let me know A) If it is causing you any issues besides it is ugly? :) and B)If you find a way around the issue?
Thanks, it is not causing any issues, it just caught my eye after watching you demonstrate how to avoid guids for all of the DBs.
Hi, Great tutorial! I had sharepoint up and running in about 8 hours. It all worked for a couple of days but somehow Sharepoint cant be reached anymore from any pc my domain. Does anyone has a idea how to fix this? The server can be pinged and sites can be accessed from the internet where sharepoint is installed.
Can you remote desktop into the SharePoint Server?
Hi, thanks for the replay! I can RDP into the sharepoint server. Another thing I forgot to mention is that when I open central admin or load up the portal on the sharepoint server itself, it's really really slow in loading up the requested pages.
Great Series
Any chance of getting a video showing Access Service configuration? Or a good link to use?
There is a giant whitepaper linked on this page that should help. technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj714714.aspx I also wrote my version of the instructions but they are in my 2013 admin book.
Shane Young
been there and its sp2013 and sql 2012. does not match up with sp2016 and sql2016. especially since there is no feature pack for sql2016. tried the rest and still get errors when i try to create a custom app via access 2016
Hmmm. I haven't done it in 2016 so not 100% sure.... Let me ask Twitter and see if anyone has thoughts.
found the link for sql2016 feature pack. The download link is: www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52676
Will try again from the checkpoint after the video 6 was completed
+Malcolm Jones if you are on twitter we are talking about you right now. I am shanescows. They want me to remind you access services is deprecated.
hello Shane, Thanks for the video. It has been really helpfull. i have hit a challenge and currently i'm completely stuck. I get an error when i try to create the site collections.
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The page cannot be displayed because your server's current configuration does not support it. To perform this task, use the command line operations in Stsadm.exe.
Not sure. I have never had create a site collection not work. :(
I get the same exact error. Also the create new site collection "createsite.aspx" link in central admin does no work. It shows a blank page. Also tried creating site collection with powershell but the command New-SPSite doesn't work. Error message said someting like the New-SPSite command wasn't there. Sorry need to log in again to get exact error message in powershell. Does this sound like the same issues you are having? The only thing i did different than Shane was to install sharepoint was using the domain\administrator account instead of sp_install. I accidentally messed up thinking that i was logged in with sp_install but was really logged in as domain\administrator and it was too late to switch back. I don't think this is why I am having the same problem as you though. Did you find a solution yet?
Which cumulative update did you use?
Never did find a solution so I'm going to try install again, but I just wanted to say thanks to Shane for creating these awesome videos! I really do appreciate them.
the link to your premium package didn't work - this is a great video !!!!!!!!- Thanks Shane!
Sorry about that. If you email me I can help. Shane at PowerApps911.com
Great Stuff, Thanks
Good day Shane, Thanks for this great guide, I found a problem when running the crawl on my portal site, it complains about it has a NoCrawl flag? I checked when logging into that site and going to search settings but it is marked as search-able, is there a step I missed some how? url of item is: portal.domain.com/StyleLibrary/Forms/Allitems.aspx
You don't want/need the style library crawled. If that is the only issue you have you are in great shape.
Great. I got a few points
Thanks!
Thank you. Let me know if you have any suggestions for this video or for future topics.
Just a hint if someone gets problems with secure store key. Have a look at
sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/228821/sharepoint-2016-secure-store-masterkey-cannot-be-set-problem-solved
Thanks for sharing
Thank you as always for your great videos. I have read a bunch on distributed cache. I am getting error referencing possible cache issues. What is your opinion on the need to create new cache containers when building a small farm? blogs.technet.microsoft.com/anneste/2016/09/23/event-id-6398-the-execute-method-of-job-definition-microsoft-office-server-userprofiles-lmtrepopulationjob-id-xxx-threw-an-exception/