Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Simple Trick to Know Which SharePoint Server You Are On

Do you experience intermittent or inconsistent issues in your SharePoint portal? In some cases, this is due to one of the web front end servers not functioning properly. Here is a simple way to determine which server you are accessing.

1) On each of your web front end servers, create a whichserver.txt file containing the name of your web front end server.

2) In Windows Explorer, navigate to the "LAYOUTS" SharePoint hive location (ex. C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS for SharePoint 2013), and place your whichserver.txt file here.

3) In your browser, go to your SharePoint site and append the name of your text file (ex. "http://myportal/_layouts/whichserver.txt"). The name of the server you are accessing will be displayed.

That was easy!
Leo

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