SharePoint Central Administration is the hub for managing your SharePoint environment. Learn the key features and functions to help you get started.
As its name implies, the Search Service Application in SharePoint provides search functionality. We must use PowerShell scripts to configure the search service application from SharePoint 2013 onwards. Although we can create a new search service application instance, there is no user interface to configure the Search topology from SharePoint Central Admin….
Requirement: Create the user profile service application in SharePoint 2016. We need the User Profile Service Application to consume social features in SharePoint 2016, such as My Sites, User profiles, etc. This PowerShell script creates User Profile Service Application in SharePoint 2016. Prerequisite: Create my site host prior creating user profile service…
What is resource throttling in SharePoint? The biggest performance bottleneck in SharePoint sites is usually caused by large lists. If you have 50 simultaneous users on a site and two of them contribute to large lists, all 50 users will experience very slow performance. Luckily, starting from SharePoint 2010, a feature called…
The Central Administration site is a web application where administration activities are performed for the farm. By default, Central Administration runs on non-secure HTTP. Enabling encryption ensures that the communications between users and the central admin website remain secure. Prerequisite: Of course, You need the SSL certificate! You can use a free…
Requirement: Backup a SharePoint Site Collection using Central Administration. Backup Site Collection in SharePoint 2016 Central Admin Backing up your site collection will ensure that your data is safe and can be recovered in case of data loss or corruption. Site collections can be backed up using SharePoint 2016 Central Administration. This…
Requirement: Remove Web Application Policy using PowerShell. How to remove a web application Policy in SharePoint? In SharePoint, user policies can be applied at the web application level to control access to resources for specific users or groups. PowerShell and Central Admin provide an easier way to manage user policies for web…
Problem: When creating service applications, like in SharePoint 2013, I tried starting service instances from the “Services on Server” page of the SharePoint 2016 Central Admin site. Still, I couldn’t find any option to start any service instances. Root Cause and Solution We are using MinRoles farm topology. MinRole in SharePoint 2016…
The Resources list in the SharePoint Central Administration site lets you keep frequently accessed links to the home page. Say, for example, To access the user profile service application, you’ll have to navigate through the following: Sometimes, you’ll find difficulty navigating To-And-Fro in SharePoint Central Administration. So, a Resources list comes in…
Many components like InfoPath Form services, Visio, Search Service, workflows, etc., relies on the State Service Application of SharePoint to store the application sessions. If it’s not configured already, you’d probably see error messages such as: “The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint…
How to get all site collections of a web application in SharePoint? All site collections and sites within a web application share the same top-level URL. To get all site collections in a web application from SharePoint central Admin, follow these steps: Get all site collections in web application using PowerShell: Here…
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