Top Support Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
This is a collection of the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (updated quarterly).
Support is ending for Office 2003 products on April 8, 2014!
1. Solutions related to setting up, upgrading, deploying, and updating, in general:
- Install and configure SharePoint 2013
- Overview of SharePoint 2013 installation and configuration
- Software updates overview for SharePoint 2013
- Prepare to deploy software updates for SharePoint 2013
- Install a software update (SharePoint 2013)
- Install SharePoint 2013
- Updates for SharePoint Products and Technologies
- Install SharePoint 2013 across multiple servers for a three-tier farm
2. Solutions related to crawling, content processing, and indexing:
- Crawl transparency in SharePoint Server 2013. How to find when a list was crawled.
- How can I achieve the best freshness of search results? Introducing Continuous Crawls for SharePoint
- Introducing Search Schema for SharePoint 2013
- Searching new content with SharePoint Search
- Plan crawling and federation in SharePoint 2013
- Overview of the search schema in SharePoint Server 2013
- Manage the search topology in SharePoint Server 2013
- Best practices for crawling in SharePoint Server 2013
- Search technical reference for SharePoint Server 2013
3. Solutions related to Visual Studio workflows:
- Getting Started (SharePoint Development in Visual Studio)
- Develop SharePoint 2013 workflows using Visual Studio
- Developing SharePoint 2013 workflows with Visual Studio demo (video)
- SharePoint 2013 Workflow Development for Apps and Solutions for SharePoint 2013 with Visual Studio 2012
- Create a SharePoint workflow app using Visual Studio 2012
- Working with Tasks in SharePoint 2013 Workflows using Visual Studio 2012
- Working with Web Services in SharePoint 2013 Workflows using Visual Studio 2012
- How to: Create Custom SharePoint Server 2013 Workflow Forms with Visual Studio 2012
- SharePoint 2013 workflow fundamentals
- SharePoint 2013 workflow object model
- Workflow actions and activities reference for SharePoint 2013
4. Solutions related to site is inaccessible:
- inaccessible site settings in sharepoint
- Best Practice - <GeneratePublisherEvidence> in ASPNET.CONFIG
- Web site unavailable (SharePoint 2010 Products)
- Site slowness because of SharePoint STS certificate CRL checking
- SharePoint 2013: Troubleshooting - Cannot Connect to the Configuration Database
- Cannot connect to SQL Server - Event 3355 (SharePoint 2010 Products)
- CRL verification Failure –SharePoint
- Database could not be accessed - Event 3760 (SharePoint 2010 Products)
5. Solutions related to backup and restore, in general:
- Backup and restore SharePoint 2013
- Backup and restore best practices in SharePoint 2013
- Overview of backup and recovery in SharePoint 2013
- Back up and restore: SharePoint Server 2013
- Backup solutions in SharePoint 2013
- Configure backup and restore permissions in SharePoint 2013
- How to: Back up and restore SharePoint 2013 using a VSS requestor
- Back up service applications in SharePoint 2013
- Prepare to back up and restore farms in SharePoint 2013
- Backup and recovery cmdlets in SharePoint 2013
- Restore farms in SharePoint 2013