My good friend JP Poissant found a little configuration glitch the other day when building out a new farm. He found that when he tried to start the distributed cache service running on a second server in the farm, it failed to start. The service was listed but he was getting the "cacheHostInfo is null"…
Tag: Management
Adding a New Search Partition and Replica in SharePoint 2013
I think there are probably resources out there somewhere for this by now, but I had a hard time finding them when I went looking for them previously so I thought I'd just post it here. Fortunately my friend Knut B. was good enough to shoot me some PowerShell a while back to help you manage your…
How to Configure the Global Search Center Url for SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell
I had this question come up today and it was a little bit of work to track down so I thought I would share here. In SharePoint 2013 the Search Service Application has something called a Global Search Center Url. In the absence of any other configuration, this is where folks will get redirected to run their queries. …
Working with Request Manager in SharePoint 2013
I haven't seen a lot of information out and about on this yet, so I thought I'd take a little time to frankly – get into some PowerShell – for Request Manager (RM). For those of you who aren't familiar with RM, it's a new piece of SharePoint 2013 designed to do SharePoint request routing…