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1.     What is a Super User and Super Reader Account in SharePoint 2013?  Portal Super User and Portal Super Reader accounts that are used by the object cache in SharePoint Server 2013. For more information: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff758656.aspx 2.     What is App Fabric and Distributed Cache in SharePoint 2013? App Fabric Service is a windows service and is a Prerequisite for SharePoint Distributed Cache. 3.     Names of Default databases created in Search Service? Crawl DB, Link DB, Analytics Processing DB, Search Administration DB 4.     What is the Roll back plan for a Failed CU? There is no Roll back for Failed CU. We need to rebuild the server or restore it from available              backup. 5.     Difference between CU and Public CU? A cumulative update includes fixes for p...

SHAREPOINT 2013 STANDALONE INSTALLATION WITHOUT ACTIVE DIRECTORY In The Following Post I have demonstrated a step by step approach to install and configure SharePoint without Active Directory accounts and no install or connection to Domain Controller is required. Install SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with SP1   ·         During the configuration it will prompt you select an account to manage the Database engines services and the other databases that are created. We can provide a Local Admin account here and it will accept it. ·          After the configuration of SQL Server Express 2008R2 SP1 , Since we do not have a AD configured , we can trick SharePoint by first creating a Configuration Database.   ·          It might take some time for the above command to complete creating the Configuration database. ·   ...

SharePoint Latest Interview Questions July 2016: 1  Internal pages are not appearing in search results? How do you troubleshoot? 2  User is getting the error “Server is unavailable error.” How to troubleshoot? 3  How to create multiple web applications on Port 80 4  STSADM and PowerShell command to backup Site Collection. 5  Steps to Promote Sub Site as Site Collection. 6  How to restore a Sub Site in SharePoint? 7  Is it Possible to restore SharePoint backup file on SQL? 8  What is new in user profile service in SharePoint 2013? 9  Unable to search Document in Search? How do you troubleshoot? 10 Search scope, People scope is missing, what do you do? 11 Difference between IIS 6 and IIS7? 12 Create External accessible website(AAM)? 13 Steps to Create Binding in IIS.? 14 What is the SPO management shell command to connect as admin 15 Explain SharePoint evolu...

1)How to Troubleshoot Update conflict error in SharePoint? Ans) This error occurs if the Contents of the File systtem cache is newer than the configuration database contents.Inorder to fix this issue we need to clear the file system cache on all the servers in the farm. 2) How to Clear File System (Configuration) cache ? Ans)    - Navigate to the following path : Drive:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID    - Backup the Cache.ini file    - Delete all the XML files in the GUID folder.(Do not delete the cache.ini folder).    - Open the Cache.ini file in Edit mode and delete the  content in it and just type 1 and save the file.    - Restart the windows SharePoint Timer service.    - Go to Central Admin, Click Operations --> Under Global Configuration-->Timer Job Status -->Check if Config Refresh entry is      succeeded. 3) WSP not deployed to all servers? How to diagnose? ...

The following is a list of SharePoint URLs to get to commonly used administrative functions on a MOSS or WSS v3 site. Not all links listed on this page are accessible to all user levels of a site. This is a quick list for speedy reference as compared to tracking down links through the admin screens or for faster jumping around sites within a site collection. Function Add to the URL Notes Add Web Parts Pane ?ToolPaneView=2 Add to the end of the page URL; WILL ONLY WORK IF THE PAGE IS ALREADY CHECKED OUT Create New Site Content                            /_layouts/create.aspx List Template Gallery     /_catalogs/lt Manage Site Collection Administrators /_layouts/mngsiteadmin.aspx Manage Sites and Workspaces /_layouts/mngsubwebs.aspx Manage People /_layouts/people.aspx Manage User Permissions ...

SharePoint 2010– Profile Pictures not showing up due to incorrect URL Scenario Profile Pictures inside User Profile Service Application for some users show Red X mark Cause This can happen due to 2 reasons 1) Profile Picture was deleted or went missing 2) Due to incorrect URL Question   - How to check the Picture URL associated to the user Answer –  We can check this by right clicking the Picture inside User Profile(Central Administration > Manage Service Application > User Profile Service Application > Manager User Profiles) Search for the user profile and then click on Edit my profile Now Right click on the Picture to click on properties(Picture URL is shown under the Address) Alternate Way –  We can run the following Select query against the Profile DB to get the Picture URL for a User Select PictureURL from UserProfile_full with(nolock) where NTName = 'contoso\user1' When we tried browsing the URL we realized that the URL is incorrect,...

Step1 : Open PowerShell as Administrator. Get-SPServiceInstance -all |where {$_.TypeName -like "ServiceName*"} (To get the Instance ID of the service causing the problem.) Step 2: run below command for stopping the sercive $srvc = Get-SPServiceInstance "here you have to give service id obtained from the above command" $srvc.Unprovision() Step 3: please run below command for starting the excel service $srvc = Get-SPServiceInstance "here you have to give service id" $srvc.provision()