Top Support Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
This is a collection of the top Microsoft Support solutions for the most common issues experienced when using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (updated quarterly).
Support ended for Office 2003 products on April 8, 2014.
1. Solutions related to setting up, upgrading, deploying, and updating, in general:
- Install and configure SharePoint 2013
- Overview of SharePoint 2013 installation and configuration
- Software updates overview for SharePoint 2013
- Prepare to deploy software updates for SharePoint 2013
- Install a software update (SharePoint 2013)
- Install SharePoint 2013
- Updates for SharePoint Products and Technologies
- Install SharePoint 2013 across multiple servers for a three-tier farm
2. Solutions related to crawling, content processing, and indexing:
- Introducing Search Schema for SharePoint 2013
- How can I achieve the best freshness of search results? Introducing Continuous Crawls for SharePoint
- Crawl transparency in SharePoint Server 2013. How to find when a list was crawled.
- Searching new content with SharePoint Search
- Plan crawling and federation in SharePoint 2013
- Overview of the search schema in SharePoint Server 2013
- Manage the search topology in SharePoint Server 2013
- Best practices for crawling in SharePoint Server 2013
- Search technical reference for SharePoint Server 2013
3. Solutions related to Profile synchronization:
- Manage user profile synchronization in SharePoint Server 2013
- Overview of profile synchronization in SharePoint Server 2013
- Synchronize user and group profiles in SharePoint Server 2013
- Download Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate profile synchronization for SharePoint Server 2013 from Official Microsoft Download Center
- SharePoint 2013: Setting up User Profile Synchronization (1/2)
- SharePoint 2013: User Profile Service Application
- Grant Active Directory Domain Services permissions for profile synchronization in SharePoint Server 2013
- SharePoint 2013: User Profile Synchronization - Direct Active Directory Import
4. Solutions related to backup and restore, in general:
- Backup and restore SharePoint 2013
- Backup and restore best practices in SharePoint 2013
- Overview of backup and recovery in SharePoint 2013
- Back up and restore: SharePoint Server 2013
- Backup solutions in SharePoint 2013
- Configure backup and restore permissions in SharePoint 2013
- How to: Back up and restore SharePoint 2013 using a VSS requestor
- Back up service applications in SharePoint 2013
- Prepare to back up and restore farms in SharePoint 2013
- Backup and recovery cmdlets in SharePoint 2013
- Restore farms in SharePoint 2013
5. Solutions related to Server and Farm Configuration and Administration in general
- Overview of SharePoint 2013 installation and configuration
- Prepare for installation of SharePoint 2013
- Plan for administrative and service accounts in SharePoint
- Install SharePoint 2013
- Configure SharePoint 2013
- Overview of farm virtualization and architectures
- Install and configure a virtual environment for SharePoint
- Operations for SharePoint 2013
- Installation Deployment | SharePoint 2013 | TechNet
- Test Lab Guide: Configure SharePoint Server 2013 in a server farm
- Downloadable eBook: Deployment guide for SharePoint 2013 from Official Microsoft Download Center