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
Pre-requisites: SQL server running Windows SQL Server 2008 R2 Search admin server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Search query server running Windows Server 2008 R2 These are the abbreviated high level steps to deploy fast, based on this page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381267%28v=office.14%29.aspx … Read More
Here’s an example of a deployment file for a three server farm, 1 admin, 1 query, and 1 back end server, The file above is based off the multi server example found on this page: thttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381240(v=office.14).aspx#BKMK_ConfigureAMultipleServerDeployment The xml shows how … Read More
The following was adapted from support.microsoft.com <- this link has detailed steps. If you’re getting error message when attempting to view a PowerPoint or word doc via the browser, perform the following: 1. Check that PowerPoint Service and Word Viewing … Read More
If you’re trying to save a site as a template, so that you can use it in a workflow, (e.g for Project Server new site creation, or just as some sort of custom site for your users) and are unable to … Read More
Sorry to be blogurgitating this week. Here’s a really good technet site with a load of virtual labs: SharePoint Server 2010 Introduction to SharePoint Server 2010 Upgrade Developing KPIs and Scorecards with PerformancePoint Services Web Content Management Visual Upgrade Advanced … Read More
Here is a copy of the script that was used during the creation of this video found in the earlier blog post, from today. <skip> The entire script replaces the initial configuration wizard. Another way to think of it, is … Read More
Pre-requisites: 64 Bit Server running Server 2008 R2 64 Bit SQL Account that has db_creator, sysadim, securityadmin rights in SQL server, and is local admin on front end server Copy of SharePoint 2010 Steps: Install SQL on the SQL server … Read More
Sorry about the brevity of my posts lately, it’s been busy graduation party season: Problem is defined as:, some sites have Windows update turned off. Here is the link to the Windows Update catalog where you can search … Read More
Pre-Requisites: Obtain a copy of the operating system in ISO format, Have admin access to the physical host 1. Open the Hyper-V manager (%windir%\system32\virtmgmt.msc) 2. Click new > Virtual Machine from the Actions menu 3. Click next if prompted … Read More