When running the prerequisite installer for SharePoint 2016 on Windows Server 2016 you may run into a download error on the SQL Server 2012 Native Client: Note that this also occurs on SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 A quick review of the installation log file and you'll find…
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Raymond Tishenko
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SharePoint 2013 Distributed Cache not starting
Spend any time with SharePoint 2013 (and 2016, I dare say) and you'll eventually hit a case where the Distributed Cache Service (AppFabricCache) won't start. This week saw me troubleshooting Distributed Cache in a new customer environment, and this time around the solution was a little unique. Troubleshooting the Distributed…
Azure AD Domain Services now GA
As a follow-up to Configuring Azure AD Domain Services for your Active Directory Tenant, it's great to see that the Azure AD Domain Services is now Generally Available. As with many of the Microsoft Cloud services, improvements based on customer feedback have been added throughout the preview program, including: Secure…
Configuring Azure AD Domain Services for your Active Directory Tenant
Configuring Azure AD Domain Services is fairly straight-forward process, and currently, only possible via the classic Azure Web Portal - look for this to change at some point to allow PowerShell as well. Prior to enabling the service, you need to create an Active Directory Group with a specific name.…
Azure Active Directory Domain Services
Working with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployments always presents a challenge of Active Directory Domain Services: namely, what to do for the AD services in the cloud. To date, we have had a few options each of which required running Domain Controllers in the cloud, with the additional maintenance…
Speed up SharePoint patching
The challenge Patching SharePoint is a process not to be undertaken without planning and preparation, and given the frequency of errors and failed upgrades, is not for the faint of heart. One of the challenges is that the patch process causes an outage regardless of any High-Availability configuration you may…