New Post: Re-Using AutoSPInstaller capabilities
I found that I could very easily re-use the internal capabilities of ASPI by using the following process using the following to perform service creation of the Service Creation functions included in...
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Uhhhmmmmm.... I like your thoughts: http://spinsiders.com/brianlala/2014/04/30/autospinstaller-for-specific-config-changes/ ;-)
View ArticleNew Post: Running AutoSPInstaller multiple times
So I am still trying to get things to work (new install of Sharepoint 2013 and first time using the AutoSPInstaller). Mostly I am finding I have entered things wrong and thus break things. This last...
View ArticleNew Post: Running AutoSPInstaller multiple times
Hi, AutoSPInstaller can be re-ran as many times as you like. Depending on the mistake you might have to delete the object that was created incorrectly then re-run the script. If you're unsure what when...
View ArticleNew Post: Running AutoSPInstaller multiple times
Ivan, Thanks for the response. I am surprised that AutoSPInstaller can be re-run multiple times and I am running into these issues. I don't know what would be different on my system then what other...
View ArticleNew Post: Running AutoSPInstaller multiple times
Ok to make life more fun. Now after the weekend the Managed MetaData Service App installs correctly. The only change I made was to reduce the password length from 20 characters to 12 characters.
View ArticleNew Post: Running AutoSPInstaller multiple times
Yet another interesting quirk. using the account name domain.com\name works for most things but I was running into errors with the MetaData and UPS services but now that I changed it to domain\name it...
View ArticleNew Post: Unable to retrieve topology component health states.
If you are assigning search roles/components to different servers, then you need to make sure that you provision the enterprise search to all of those servers (see bold below). For...
View ArticleNew Post: Search Application Topology - Unable to retrieve topology component...
If you are assigning search roles/components to different servers, then you need to make sure that you provision the enterprise search to all of those servers (see bold below). For...
View ArticleCommented Issue: STS#0 Template Not Creating Membership Groups with...
With my XML for AutoSPInstaller I create 6 Web Applications - 4 of these are created using the STS#0 template. Each has XML like this:```<WebApplication type="Other" name="Site Name"...
View ArticleCreated Unassigned: Problem with Provisioning Enterprise Search [21207]
I am using the extracted XML below to provision Enterprise Search on a server farm with 3 WFE and 9 Services server (4 are search). At the end of the Day I wind up with two (2) Search topologies and...
View ArticleCommented Unassigned: Problem with Provisioning Enterprise Search [21207]
I am using the extracted XML below to provision Enterprise Search on a farm with search topology split onto four (4) servers.After running ASPO I wind up with two (2) Search topologies and only one has...
View ArticleCommented Unassigned: Problem with Provisioning Enterprise Search [21207]
I am using the extracted XML below to provision Enterprise Search on a farm with search topology split onto four (4) servers.After running ASPO I wind up with two (2) Search topologies and only one has...
View ArticleNew Post: Add Users or Groups to Farm Administrators group within Central Admin.
I would find it helpful if the script would automatically add users and group into the Farm Administrators group within Central Admin.
View ArticleNew Post: Disable UAC, AutoLogon, Replicate Check, GenerateConfig - custom...
These are nice. Which have been incorporated and which functions have not?
View ArticleCommented Unassigned: After Installing SP2013 with SP1 Every so often Search...
After Installing SP2013 with SP1 Every so often Search fails due to the members of SPSearchDBAdmin being removed from the database role and not being added backin.This happens about once a week.Anybody...
View ArticleCommented Unassigned: After Installing SP2013 with AutoSPInstaller...
After Installing SP2013 with AutoSPInstaller Set-SPEnterpriseSearchFileFormat fails with The processing of files of type 'pdf' is already supported by the parsing system.Anybody got any ideas why this...
View ArticleCommented Unassigned: Syntax issue with "Installing SMTP Windows feature in a...
While reviewing the code [AutoSPInstallerMain.ps1, line 250] using NotePad++, the editor's syntax parser seems to have an issue with the "back quote / semi-colon" delimiter in the following...
View ArticleClosed Unassigned: Syntax issue with "Installing SMTP Windows feature in a...
While reviewing the code [AutoSPInstallerMain.ps1, line 250] using NotePad++, the editor's syntax parser seems to have an issue with the "back quote / semi-colon" delimiter in the following...
View ArticleCommented Feature: Distributed Cache starting (muli-server) [21155]
Hi,I have noticed that whenever I use the script to create a multi-server farm the distributed cache service fails to start. The script returns a pass however the service does not actually start....
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