Last week I was tasked with creating some backup/restore scripts for SharePoint. The backup scripts kept erroring out with the following issue: Backup for 'Search Service 1(099045f6-a648-48f1-9a05-a9371c5d9b88)' failed. System.ServiceModel.FaultException...

SharePoint experts must love to hurt themselves. How else do we go through the pain of configuring Kerberos or getting User Profile Service to work. Oh yeah don't forget the endless variations in Service Application configuration. There is a different...

Recently I worked on an interesting case during one that was blocking deployment of one of the SharePoint 2013 projects I was working for. Basically what happened was that although deployment of SharePoint went well, some of the Service Applications like...