To recover password of SharePoint Farm, you need to log on with a Local Administrator account on a server with Central Administration. To recover passwords for Web Applications or services you need to log on with Administrator account to server where it is running. (read more...)
SharePoint 2010 can be installed as a Farm installation or as Standalone one. Standalone installations means that all the components are on the same machine (SharePoint, SharePoint services and built-in database) and this type of installation is not extensible.
In SharePoint timer job history I have noticed that there's the error in starting User Profile synchronization:
Could not connect to http://spsrv:5725/ResourceManagementService/MEX. TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it <ip-adress:port>. (read more...)
Most of all I use PowerShell for administration of SharePoint portal. But also I use it when I need to make some actions with SharePoint lists – get items, update items, remove items (link how to remove items) or to make report based on lists on SharePoint. (read more...)
When user tells you that he has got an error using SharePoint portal service, you ask him about the page he was, which buttons he clicked and, if user hasn’t still closed browser, ask to send you screenshot of the error. It contains very useful information – CorrelationId. (read more...)
I was asked to download a lot of files from document library. Of course, I could open document library in Explore mode, but there was a lot of files and it could take a long time. So I’ve found a good PowerShell script to save files from document library. (read more...)
It's not very often but sometimes I have to update SharePoint user email in profile. Here's a simple powershell code to do it. (read more...)
Below I write a powershell script to get the author and date of creation of SharePoint List. Today I have suddenly found out the new list. I was very surprised to see it and wanted to know who and when created it.
There are a lot of .aspx pages for SharePoint administrators in /_layouts/ directory. Most of them can be found on settings page "/_layouts/settings.aspx", but some SharePoint site templates don’t have some of these links.
It’s very important for SharePoint administrator to have all actual WSP-files of custom SharePoint solutions. Developers often make new builds and administrator installs it in test environment, then in productive one. All the WSP-files are usually stored in a special place.
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