Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Change SP2016 WFE as WFE with Distributed cache (2 WFE +1SQL +1 Search)


I have 2 WFE and 1SQL and 1 Search server in single farm, As per the requirement both the WFE now needs to change the role from WFE to WFE+Distributed cache.

1) Run the below command in both the WFE
Add-SPDistributedCacheServiceInstance -Role WebFrontEndWithDistributedCache

2) Wait for few minutes and go to

Select the role under New Role drop down and change this to Front end with Distributed cache, Click Apply .

3)V erify that the Distributed Cache service is started. To do this, in the SharePoint Central Administration website, click Application Management. In the Service Applications section, click Manage services on server.

Search Service configuration to Single server under (2 WFE+1 SQL+1Search)


Run the below commands to SP 2016 Search server


$App1 = "MCMYPSPA01"

$SearchAppPoolName = "SharePoint Search Application pool"
$SearchAppPoolAccountName = "apps\svc.srch"
$SearchServiceName = "SharePoint Search Service Application"
$SearchServiceProxyName = "SharePoint Search Proxy"
$DatabaseName = "SP_Prod_AppFarmA_Search_AdminDB"
 
#Create a Search Service Application Pool
$spAppPool = New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name $SearchAppPoolName -Account $SearchAppPoolAccountName -Verbose

#Start Search Service Instance on all Application Servers
Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance $App1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance $App2 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Start-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceInstance $App1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#Start-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceInstance $App2 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

#Create Search Service Application
$ServiceApplication = New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Partitioned -Name $SearchServiceName -ApplicationPool $spAppPool.Name -DatabaseName $DatabaseName

#Create Search Service Proxy
New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplicationProxy -Partitioned -Name $SearchServiceProxyName -SearchApplication $ServiceApplication

#----------------------------------------------------

$clone = $ServiceApplication.ActiveTopology.Clone()
$App1SSI = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $App1

#We need only one admin component
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $App1SSI

#We need content processing components
New-SPEnterpriseSearchContentProcessingComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $App1SSI


#We need analytics processing components
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAnalyticsProcessingComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $App1SSI


#We need crawl components
New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $App1SSI


#We need query processing components
New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryProcessingComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $App1SSI


#---------------------------------------------------------

#Set the primary and replica index location; ensure these drives and folders exist on application servers
$PrimaryIndexLocation = "E:\SharePoint\index\Data"

#We need index partitions and replicas for each partition. Follow the sequence.
New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $App1SSI -RootDirectory $PrimaryIndexLocation -IndexPartition 0
$clone.Activate()



Monday, July 9, 2018

Enable Anonymous SharePoint 2013/ SharePoint 2016 site Access on mobile


Problem : After making the sharepoint site Anonymous,  I was still getting the authentication prompt in mobile.
Fix : 
Deactivate the site-collection feature (Unlimited-access user permission lockdown mode) 
SiteCollection Feature needs to be deactivate for Mobile .


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