Part 4 of my series on setting up a SharePoint 2016 development farm in Azure. In this article, we will perform the actual SharePoint 2016 installation. This will be a virtual machine (spVM) in the virtual network we created in Part 2 of this series. We will make spVM a member of the Windows Server AD domain, and then create a new SharePoint farm.
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Setting up a SharePoint 2016 dev farm in Azure – Part 3: SQL Server
Part 3 of my series on setting up a SharePoint 2016 development farm on Azure. In this article, we will create a SQL Server 2014 virtual machine (sqlVM) in the virtual network we created in Part 2 of this series. We will make sqlVM a member of the Windows Server AD domain, and prepare it for SharePoint.
Why (and how to) connect to Microsoft Azure with Azure PowerShell
You might already be using PowerShell to automate other things in your environment. But if you haven’t started automating your cloud workload with Azure PowerShell, it’s time you take your cloud game to the next level. In this article, I’ll be showing you how to get started managing Azure resources with PowerShell. We’ll install the Azure PowerShell module and connect to your Azure subscription.
Clearing the SharePoint timer job cache using PowerShell
When developing solutions containing timer jobs, the timer job may continue running code from an older assembly which has been uninstalled but simply remained cached. To fix this, use the provided script to clear the timer job cache across all servers in the SharePoint farm.
Get SharePoint central admin url with C# and PowerShell
For quick reference: C# and PowerShell code snippets to grab the SharePoint central admin url for a farm.
Forcing a full crawl on all SharePoint content sources using PowerShell
You may often need to run a full crawl on all content sources in a SharePoint farm. But there may already be a few crawls going on that you would like to stop and then restart afresh. This script helps force a stop and restart on all crawls.