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You will need to check claims service is running PowerShell to  provision: $h = Get-SPServiceHostconfig $h.Provision() $services = Get-SPServiceApplication foreach ($service in $services) { $service.provision(); write-host $ service.name } In OWA server some important commands to set verbose logs and to turn it off: Set-OfficeWebAppsFarm -LogVerbosity "High" Restart-Service WACSM Set-OfficeWebAppsFarm -LogVerbosity "" Restart-Service WACSM

ForeFront Identity Manager Client ForeFront Identity Manager client is provided by Microsoft to monitor the User Profile Synchronization that takes place in the Synchronization Server. It is located at the below location as “miisclient” application : C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Synchronization Service\UIShell\ then open Miisclient

-Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService -PerformanceLevel PartlyReduced On all search app servers -Open NodeRunner process configuration file below in Notepad C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Search\Runtime\1.0\noderunner.exe.config. Update  <nodeRunnerSettings memoryLimitMegabytes=”0 ″ /> . This is the configuration to limit NodeRunner process memory usage, replace  0  to 500 or 1000 -Restart  SharePoint Search Host Controller  service

Commands to generate ULS logs during troubleshooting Set-SPLogLevel -TraceSeverity VerboseEx -Identity *Search*:* New-SPLogFile $starttime = get-date //do the operations $enddate = get-date Clear-SPLogLevel -Identity *Search*:* Merge-SPLogFile -Path e:\Crawllog.log -StartTime $starttime -EndTime $enddate Merge-SPLogFile -Path e:\zellber1.log -StartTime "04/30/2018 9:00" -EndTime "04/30/2018 18:00" Clear-SPLogLevel 

https://www.habaneroconsulting.com/stories/insights/2013/sharepoint-2013-distributed-cache-bug#.VC7331fdb3U https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sambetts/2015/10/20/why-sharepoint-check-permissions-can-give-wrong-results-for-ad-groups/ Modified sts external token instead of 1 day to 2 hours $cs = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService $cs.TokenTimeout = New-TimeSpan -Hours 2 $cs.Update() Added    <appSettings><add key="backgroundGC" value="true"/></appSettings> in the distributed DistributedCacheService.exe.config Then I will need to set the following: Get-SPDistributedCacheClientSetting   -ContainerType   DistributedLogonTokenCache $DLTC   =  Get-SPDistributedCacheClientSetting   -ContainerType   DistributedLogonTokenCache $DLTC.maxBufferPoolSize =  "1073741824" $DLTC.maxBufferSize =  "33554432" $DLTC.requestTimeout =  "3000" $DLTC.channelOpenTim

Recently came into issue that popularity trends showing zero while users are accessing documents so I have that there is a parameter called TailTrimming as mentioned in this reference blog   https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/tothesharepoint/2014/01/23/view-and-configure-usage-analytics-reports-in-sharepoint-server-2013/ For example, for the Views usage event the TailTrimming parameter is by default set to 3. This means that the usage analytics reports will be updated for an item when the item has been viewed a minimum three times within the last 24 hours. For example, if the item Fabrikam Laptop16 M6000 has been viewed twice within the last 24 hours, these two views won’t show up in the usage analytics reports. If within the next 24 hours the Fabrikam Laptop16 M6000 item is viewed 4 times, the usage analytics report will be updated with 4 views. to adjust it needs to run the following commands $SSP = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplicationProxy $tenantConfig = $SSP.GetAn

SharePoint is one of the most important collaboration platforms in the market and Microsoft has put a lot of investments in this product through its whole life cycle not only on premise versions but also the SharePoint Online which is part of the Office 365. Due to the importance of SharePoint Microsoft has provided a tool to allow end users, IT pros to migrate data from on premise and file share to SharePoint Online. This tool is very promising and I have gone through the whole process to migrate a sample document from my on premise environment hosted over Azure to my SharePoint Online site, in this blog post I will go through the steps to do that. To download and install the tool go to this link  About SharePoint Migration Tool And you will find a link to download it, if you would like to go direct to it here you are the link  Install and Download Tool Once you install it you will get this screenshot. First thing you need to do is to log into your office 365 tenan