Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007, 2010 & 2013

The Save site as a template option is hidden from the publishing sites settings page we all used the following URL to go there directly: /_layouts/savetmpl.aspx Or /_layouts/15/savetmpl.aspx The “Save site as template” action is not supported on this site. this is not going to work anymore in SharePoint 2013 if your site is a publishing site or have the publishing features activated. De-activate publishing features.. Save site as template will enable.

Creating our first SharePoint 2013 Web Application Let’s begin by navigating to the SharePoint 2013 Central Administration > Application Management page. You will notice that the UI is fairly similar to that we have been accustomed to in SharePoint 2010. The first thing we need to do is create our first Web Application to host our Site Collections and its sub sites. Under the heading “Web Applications” click on Manage web applications. Click on New The below splash screen is unexpected from Microsoft, but it is notifying us in a somewhat candid way that the page is about to load.  I wonder if this will be deprecated in the final release of SharePoint 2013. You will finally be greeted with the all familiar “Create New Web Application” modal dialog window with a few subtle additions.  I will post separate screen captures depicting our settings as we scroll down the modal dialog box pre

Create managed accounts: Before creating and configuring the required search service application, we have to create the accounts which we use for enterprise search. Here I have an account in AD called SP_search. Now we will add this account as managed account. To do that go to central administration page and click on security. Click on Configure Managed accounts under general security. It will open below screen shot : Registered Managed Account. Please enter the Username, Password. If you want to set the automatic password change click on the check box against the "Enable automatic password change" otherwise leave as it is and click ok. The account will get added to the list of managed accounts. Create search service application: Click on "Manage Service Applications" under Application Management from central administration. Click on search service application from new service application list. Scroll down a little bit from the "