This is one of those items that is here to remind myself more than anyone else, to be honest: if you don't change the theme in your SharePoint Hub Site from the default, any Sites associated to the Hub will not get the updated theme. Additionally, the changes do take some time to push down, so be p…
Raymond Tishenko
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 that th…
Raymond Tishenko
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. Trou…
Raymond Tishenko
As a follow-up to Configuring Azure AD Domain Services for your Active Directory Tenant [https://tishenko.com/configuring-azure-ad-domain-services/], it's great to see that the Azure AD Domain Services is now Generally Available [https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/10/12/azur…
Raymond Tishenko
Configuring Azure AD Domain Services is fairly straight-forward process, and currently, only possible via the classic Azure Web Portal [https://portal.azure.com] - look for this to change at some point to allow PowerShell as well. Prior to enabling the service, you need to create an Active Director…
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