Overview Since Windows 2008 R2 only comes in a 64-bit flavor it is impossible to perform an in place upgrade on a Server running on x86 architecture for P2V or for whatever reason. As such, a migration to a new … Read More
This blog post attempts to bridge the gap between creating a claims based authentication web application versus converting a classic web application to claims, essentially step 1 of this blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mahesm/archive/2010/04/07/configure-forms-based-authentication-fba-with-sharepoint-2010.aspx New-SPAuthenticationProvider – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607878.aspx Here’s how you create a new … Read More
Let’s say you’ve applied the advice from unextending an extended zone and are now either getting a blank page after re-using the the vanity url or you’re receiving a message that “Something has went wrong” or “An error has occurred”. You ran
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The steps below turn your team site into a team site that is capable of using publishing features and capabilities. But all they really do, from an end user perspective, is optimize how the page loads. These steps are needed to speed up load … Read More
Pre-requisites: Site-collection administrator Follow these steps, or ask your admin, to enable the developer dashboard in on demand mode: (green-can use your own values, red-controls outcome, black-don’t change it) 1. Open the SharePoint Management Shell as an admin Type … Read More
If you ever run into an issue where you or one of your fellow admins went to deploy a solution using PowerShell and did not use the correct parameters, or it was attempted to deploy a solution that was already deployed … Read More
To move IIS to a different drive is a fairly straightforward procedure. This blog – -> http://blogs.iis.net/thomad/archive/2008/02/10/moving-the-iis7-inetpub-directory-to-a-different-drive.aspx has detailed the steps very neatly. In a nutshell, and to adapt them to a SharePoint install, here is what I recommend. 1. Run … Read More
Here are a couple ways to copy content around in SharePoint: Backup-SPSite and Restore-SPSite and Export-SPWeb and Import-SPWeb A couple things to keep in mind: Backup Restore SPSite is best used on Top sites, so use Backup and Restore SPSite if you … Read More
As tempting as it is to start opening ULS logs that surround the time of your correlation ID, you should avoid that practice, unless you have lots of time on your hands. Here is an easier and more effective way … Read More
Orphaned items within sites can cause all sorts of issues: Missing Server side dependencies, Sites not replicating correctly amongst farm servers, trouble with cumulative updates, odd web part behavior, and who knows what else. It’s been my experience that server … Read More
Log onto each additional server that you wish to join into the farm Open the ”SharePoint 2010 Management Shell” administratively (right-click and select “Run as administrator”). The shell will load with a message that the local farm is not accessible. … Read More
Check out the reference for this post: http://blog.falchionconsulting.com/index.php/2009/10/sharepoint-2010-psconfig-and-powershell/ It contains what follows in script format; which is much easier to use. This post just breaks it down. Pre-requisites: Install the SharePoint binaries on each server in your farm. Harden … Read More
Here are a few tips to use when searching through a ULS log for errors and/or correlation ID’s is coming up null: 1. Open your ULS.Log in notepad or notepad ++ and search on the just the first 8 digits, … Read More
When you’re migrating sites using export-spweb and import-spweb, you might receive an error message on the import, when reviewing the import log, and in your shell, similar to this: FatalError: Cannot import site. The exported site is based on the template … Read More
PowerShell gains clarity the more you use it. In SharePoint 2010, there are numerous things that are only possible via PowerShell. These are three PowerShell command-lets that I find very useful in administering SharePoint and this example is one way … Read More
Let’s say you go to provision a Project Web App via managed service applications, project server server application, and it fails. There is a chance that the particular site you are trying to provision is orphaned within the Project Server … Read More