SharePoint 2019 TLS Errors After Deleting a Site

Within SharePoint 2019 Central Administration, you can choose to delete a site collection. You can select whether to remove the content database and IIS entry as well.

If you choose to do this and then shortly afterward start receiving TLS errors or destination unreachable type issues, it is important to look to IIS first. When this occurs, I’ve found that for some reason, the SSL cert to other sites sometimes becomes unselected. Simply reselecting the SSL cert on the site binding having issues will fix the problem. An IIS reset is required after.

Changing the URL of an On-Premise SharePoint 2019 Site

After migrating data through ShareGate, we needed to change the temporary URL for all sites back to their original. For example, https://sp.domain.com is migrated as https://new-sp.domain.com. We’ll needed to change it back to production URL after migrating from 2010 to SharePoint 2019. Here is the process for doing so:

  • Open SharePoint Central Administration
  • Under Central Administration, go to System Settings – Configure alternate access mappings
  • Click on the domain that you wish to change (ex. https://new-sp.domain.com)
  • Change the URL to the desired new URL (ex. https://new-sp.domain.com >> https://sp.domain.com) and leave the Zone set to Default
  • Click the OK button to accept the change.
  • Open IIS on your new SharePoint server, select the site that you’re changing the URL for and click the Bindings button on the right side.
  • Highlight the binding you wish to change and click the Edit button. 
  • Change the URL to match the one that you set in SharePoint’s alternate access settings and then click the OK button. You’ll have to change both the HTTP and HTTPS bindings if you have them.
  • Back in the IIS home window, right click on your site and then Manage Website >> Restart
  • Your new URL should now be live.

Providing System Accounts Access to SharePoint 2019 Sites

To provide a system account (ex. DOMAIN\Username) access to SharePoint site crawling, it’s pretty easy to accomplish.

  • Open Central Administrator
  • Under Application Management, click Manage Web Applications
  • Highlight the application that you want to add rights for and click the User Policy button in the ribbon bar.
  • In the Policy for Web Application window, click on Add Users
  • Leave default of All Zones selected and click the Next button
  • Add the user account to add rights for, select the rights level and click the Finish button