SPWakeUp version 1.3.0 has been released. This version includes the ability to run on a non-SharePoint server to wake arbitrary URLs. Use the ‘-NotASharePointServer’ command line parameter to specify that SPWakeUp should not check for the presence of SharePoint and should not attempt to evaluate a list of web …

SPWakeUp version 1.2.0 has been released. This version includes the ability to import a list of additional URLs to be woken from a file instead of providing a series of URLs to be included individually on the command line. Use the ‘-IncludeFile:’ command line parameter to specify the full path to the file containing …

I’ve implemented something that I’ve wanted to for a long time on SPWakeUp: The ability to wake additional URLs. Version 1.1.0 allows the use of the ‘-Include':’ command line parameter to specify additional URLs that will be woken once the detected site collections and subsites have been traversed.

Since I started working with on-premises SharePoint instances, one of the solutions that I’ve used to wake up (pre-compile) the site collections and sub-sites contained within the web applications hosted by the farm is SPWakeUp. This was originally a solution hosted on CodePlex and provided binaries for SharePoint …

I was recently performing a SharePoint 2013 to 2016 farm upgrade and noticed an interesting issue when performing tests on content databases to be migrated to the new system. As part of the migration of a content database, it’s usual to perform a ‘Test-SPContentDatabase’ operation against each database before attaching …

I recently came across an issue relating to crawling people information in SharePoint and the use of crawl rules to exclude certain content. The issue revolved around a requirement to exclude content contained within peoples’ MySites, but include user profile information so that people searches could still be …

Background Traditionally the approach to multiple SSL IIS websites hosted on a server involved multiple sites each with its own certificate bound to a single IP address/port combination. If you didn’t mind using non standard SSL ports, then you could use a single IP address on the server, but the experience was not …

There seems to be an issue installing Workflow Manager 1.0 refresh on Windows Server 2012 R2. Upon completion, when clicking through to configure Workflow Manager, you are informed that neither Service Bus 1.0, nor (obviously) CU1 for Service Bus 1.0 has been installed. Digging into the event log on the machine in …

Following the recent release of Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview and SQL Server 2014 CTP1, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if I could get SharePoint 2013 running on the combination of these two previews. Most of the issues I encountered were around the product installers for SharePoint and the …

My last post about the SharePoint 2013 MySite Newsfeed and required additional permissions on the User Profile Service Application dealt with adding the required permissions to the UPSA using the SharePoint 2013 GUI. Alternatively, you can add the required permissions using PowerShell: 1 2 3#Grab a reference to the …