Office Web Applications Server offers great enhancements to your SharePoint environment. However, there are some common gotchas that tend to pop up during the installation and configuration of the service. In this article, we will take a look at some of the most common items that I have seen in the past year.
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Read MoreEach Application pool in SharePoint has an identity/account that it runs under. There are many scenarios where you may need to change the application pools to run under different credentials, and there are multiple ways you could possibly go about it.
Read MoreEach Service Application in SharePoint runs within an Application Pool. The Application Pool controls the resources (memory, etc.) that a Service Application has available to it as well as controlling which account is used to run that service. By default, SharePoint groups many of its Service Applications together into one or two Application Pools. This may not always be the ideal scenario and you may have requirements to move Service Applications to run in their own dedicated Application Pool, or just to move them to another application pool so that you can control which Service Applications are grouped together and which account they run as.
Read MoreI have started running into a problem when I am trying to change the service account that is running the Search Host Controller Service in SharePoint 2013. When I go into Central Admin and change the account that is running the controller service, the controller service will end up stopped and it will not start. While in this state the search will start generating the following errors:
Read MoreIn SharePoint 2013 farms when the index drive gets full the search app gets into an unhealthy state and can be difficult to get it to recover. The following steps can be used in order to recover the search application. The most common indicators that the search application has gotten into this unhealthy state (Besides search not working) is the Search Index Partition (in search topology) on the Search Admin Page shows a warning icon. However the following steps can be used to resolve the issue:
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