SharePoint 2013

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Governance can be fun!

Ok…my bad. My title is a little misleading…Anyone who’s ever been involved in developing and implementing a SharePoint solution to support a public-facing website, or Intranet/Collaboration sites, or a custom application, probably has never made the statement that “Governance is Fun”. Developing a Governance Plan and implementing the policies and procedures to actively manage your …

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SharePoint 2013 – Moving a Service Application to Another Application Pool.

Each 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 …

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SharePoint 2013 – Changing the Search Host Controller Service Breaks Search

I 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 …

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SharePoint 2013 Search – Fixing the Search Service After the Index Drive Fills

In 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 …

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