How to Add Enterprise Keywords Column To SharePoint List or Library?

Enterprise keywords column in SharePoint (or folksonomy) enables end users to add tags to documents and Items. Here is how to enable enterprise keywords column to SharePoint list and libraries. How to add enterprise keywords column in SharePoint? To make it easy for users to add keywords, you …

Change Distributed Cache Service Account in SharePoint 2013 with PowerShell

Distributed Cache service caches data for fast retrieval across several features in SharePoint Server 2013, such as : News feeds, Authentication, Security Trimming, OneNote client access, Page load performance, etc. When SharePoint 2013 is installed, AppFabric service is installed as part of th…

Rename SharePoint Service Application, Proxy using PowerShell

If you want to rename a SharePoint service application or Service application proxy, There is now UI available. But PowerShell can help! PowerShell script to rename SharePoint 2013 Service application and Proxy: Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #### r…

Create New Result Source for Federated Search using PowerShell

PowerShell script to Create new result source for Federated search: Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #create a new result source at Search Service Application $SearchServiceApplication = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication $FederationManager = Ne…

Hide "Site Contents" Link from SharePoint 2013 Quick Launch Navigation

Requirement: Hide site content link from left navigation SharePoint server 2013 How to hide site contents in SharePoint 2013 quick launch? We can use CSS to hide "Site Contents" link from SharePoint 2013 quick launch navigation. Hide all site content from quick launch SharePoi…

Using SharePoint Designer to Edit Property Bags

Property bags are explained in my another article: Property Bags in SharePoint 2013 - Store, Retrieve Custom Configurations , In short: Property bag feature provides a convenient way to store and retrieve custom configurations, instead of having to store them in web.config files. Usually prope…

Edit Links Missing in SharePoint 2013 Navigation?

Edit Links is a new feature introduced in SharePoint 2013 to provide quick way to Add, Edit, Remove and Re-arrange links in quick launch and top navigation.  Edit Links Missing in SharePoint 2013 Navigation?  So, You are not getting Edit links in SharePoint 2013 navigation? Well, Check below f…

Configuring Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2013

What is Managed Account in SharePoint? Why We Need Managed Accounts? SharePoint uses service accounts for operations such as Farm account, application pools and for service applications. You have to keep a track of all service accounts with their password in a secured file in your system. If t…

Create Usage and Health Data Collection Service Application in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell

Usage and Health data collection service application in SharePoint collects usage and health data from a variety of sources, including event logs, performance counters, search usage data, site collection and site usage data, and server statistics of the entire farm. There are timer jobs to coll…

Recommended Service Accounts, Permissions and Best Practices for SharePoint

Everyone have their own ways of setting up service accounts. Technically its possible to run every SharePoint service under ONE account, lets follow the least privilege principle best practice.  Recommended SharePoint 2013 Service Accounts and Naming Conventions: When you are running with mult…