August 2018

SharePoint requests fail when memory is low

Summary When working in virtual labs, I don’t always adhere to best practices. For example, we all know the minimum memory recommendation for SharePoint is 16GB for production use. So, when testing in my labs, SharePoint web requests may fail. As a result, I find myself troubleshooting the issue, only to find the failure was […]

Does SharePoint 2019 still need the SMTP Service?

Summary Now that SharePoint Server 2019 has been released, the official deprecated / removed list has been published. After reading this you may have noticed that “Incoming email automatic mode” has been removed from the product. Incoming email automatic mode As announced by the Windows Server team, Microsoft is deprecating the IIS 6 Management compatibility […]