I was deeply puzzled this afternoon, when I configured my App Catalogue and all was fine - except I was unable to access the SharePoint Store. "Sorry we can't seem to connect to the SharePoint store" hmm.. checked network, DNS, proxy, certificates...

If you have ever wrestled with the insanity of Forms Based Auth you WILL love this: http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2012/07/28/fba-configuration-manager-for-sharepoint-2013.aspx

Office Web Services on SP2010+SP1. Using Kerberos. We see PPT and Word rendering fine. Excel gives 503 errors. Cache cleared, services checked, bounced, etc. Nothing showing up in the ULS logs. Apparently this has never worked. Hmm... After an hour...

This week I encountered a puzzling issue when copying MySiteDB to a standby farm. Everything and everybody says it is simple. Well, not today. Set up standby farm userprofiles and all is well. Copy MysiteDB over, ask user to login and then access his...

This week I encountered where your content type is being pushed from hub to Site Collections, but is not getting pushed down to various lists and libraries in the site. After extensive testing and fiddling and renaming, we got it sorted. Some of the sleeper...

I'm always forgetting this command to translate those silly GUID services into text which is understandable. So here it is, where we can all find it. Get-SPServiceApplication | sort Id | FT -property Id, DisplayName -AutoSize

In order for custom code to show up in the dev dashboard you need to make use of the SpMonitoredScope: using ( new SPMonitoredScope(“My Scope Name”)) { doSomeWork(); } http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512758.aspx We have...

# BeatUp-Windows.ps1 # $psProcess = gps -id $PID $psInstances = (gps -Name $psProcess.name).count if ($psInstances -gt 1) { $psName = "{0}#{1}" -f $psProcess.name,$($psInstances - 1) } else { $psName = $psProcess.name } # RAM in box $box=get-WMIobject...

Make sure you tell it to ignore your search indexes and other SharePoint areas! See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167 To be sure it is not hitting your index location, you can check where that is currently set by: Central Admin -> Application...

# Get-WindowsUpdateLog.ps1 # walk the WindowsUpdate.log to list the # Security Updates that have been installed. # [anything][PatchDate][anything][matchtext][PatchText] $PATTERN = "([^\n]+\}\t)" $PATTERN += "(?<PatchDate>[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0...

Consider the following scenario. You have JPG pictures in AD, stored with the users thumbnailPhoto attribute. You try to import pictures for a user profile from the Active Directory thumbnailPhoto attribute, to store within the Picture attribute in Microsoft...

# Update-AD-Picture.ps1 # # copy a .jpg into a byte array, then push that into # the "thumbnailPhoto" property of the specified user in AD function UpDate-AD-Picture { param ([STRING] $UserName, [STRING] $JPEGfilePath) if ( ($JPEGfilePath) -and...

# Get_UserProfileServices.ps1 # Dump out any info I can glean from the User Profile Synch for SharePoint. # # LukeB # http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx # if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue...

# Do-SPSQLbackupRestore.ps1 # usage: # DO-SQLBackupRestore <Backup|Restore> [<SQL instance>] [<XMLfilename]> # [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SqlServer.SMO") | Out-Null [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName...

# Decode-BigIPCookie.ps1 # usage: # Decode-BigIPCookie "375537930.544.0000" function Decode-Cookie { param ([string] $ByteArrayCookie) ### F5 itself for the formula: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/900/sol6917.html ### $poolcookie...

# WinRMcheck.ps1 # check the registry keys on the target server to see if WinRM has been configured. # # # WinRM get winrm/config/client # WinRM get winrm/config/service # Server side requirements # Service WinRM must be running # The WinRM server configuration...

Powershell replacements are extremely useful. Test-SPContentDatabase gives you much of interest. However the key item you were looking for is the .REPAIR method. Get-SPContentDatabase | ForEach-Object { $_.Repair ($true)} or use $false to...

(not available for Win2003) you can configure for double-hop auth – do not know yet if we will need this. client: WinRM QuickConfig Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Client -DelegateComputer TARGETMACHINE.DOMAIN.COM or Enable-WSManCredSSP -Role Client...

In the event of a server death, you may need to move your Search Admin to another server. This is actually fairly easy: $searchapp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication "Sample Search Service Application" $admin = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchAdministrationComponent...

Josh Gavant is writing a series on CLAIMS that makes it all rather clearer. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/besidethepoint/archive/2012/05/02/sharepoint-claims-ws-and-the-windows-identity-foundation-wif.aspx

# Move-SPwebToNewSPsite.ps1 # # simple outline sample of how to migrate a sub-site into its own new Site Collection. # definately not comprehensive, but should give you an idea of what to do. # NO I have not exported Alerts or Workflows. Food for thought...

# you use Central Admin and click. But I was asked 'how do you do that with PowerShell'? #SP2010 Add-PSSnapin -Name Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Get-SPEnterpriseSearchService | Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService –PerformanceLevel...

In what order does one update when including Language Packs? With Service Packs? With Cumulative Updates? It used to be confusing. Now with 2010 it is straightforward. Get the language packs: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang...

yet again I am astonished at how useful the LogParser utility is, when delving into SharePoint performance and troubleshooting. Looking into PSCONFIG logs to spot errors turns out to be surprisingly simple. First example displays the fields in the...

Wondering what formulas and things you can use for doing Calculated Fields? Search no further! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb862071.aspx 2010 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-foundation-help/CH010372694.aspx 2007 http...