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What are the PowerShell cmdlets that correspond to STSADM commands?

What are the PowerShell cmdlets that correspond to STSADM commands?

Now that SharePoint 2010 is intertwined with PowerShell have you been looking for that cipher that tells you what PowerShell command you can run to do all of the STSADM commands that you know and love from SharePoint 2007 in SharePoint 2010?  I was too!  Here is the list that I have come up with (combined with our good friends at TechNet): PowerShell cmdlets STSADM Commands Enable-SPFeature Activatefeature Enable-SPInfoPathFormTemplate Activateformtemplate New-SPAlternateUrl Addalternatedomain Mount-SPContentDatabase Addcontentdb   New-SPContentDatabase Install-SPDataConnectionFile Adddataconnectionfile New-SPExcelFileLocation Add-ecsfiletrustedlocation…

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SharePoint 2010 and the Site Directory

SharePoint 2010 and the Site Directory

My colleague and friend, Derek Martin of Slalom Consulting, just posted about a bug that we found with SharePoint 2010 and the Site Directory.  The short story is when you enable the Site Directory and you are using SharePoint 2010 in Claims mode for your web apps (including the site that houses the site directory) Central Administration is in Classic mode (the default and recommended way) and actions that call a web service from CA that touch back to the…

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SharePoint 2010 Farm Service Account passwords expired?!?!?!?

SharePoint 2010 Farm Service Account passwords expired?!?!?!?

Scenario: Managed service accounts passwords expired.  Access to part of Central Administration are no longer accessible.  Sites are starting to go down because app pool passwords are managed accounts and have expired. Soapbox moment: Firstly, there is NO real excuse for this in SharePoint 2010 because the ability to have this done automagically for you is BUILT-IN, so either your farm admin is so over taxed (usually the case) or incompetent (the two aren’t mutually exclusive).  I take the liberty…

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Unable to access VMware Workstation Guest after Host Machine crash

Unable to access VMware Workstation Guest after Host Machine crash

Scenario: While doing SharePoint 2010 development is now able to be done from within a Windows 7 64bit system and even inside of a Hyper-V VM, many of us in the wide world of computing are still using VMware Workstation, Fusion, Player, or even the old VMware GSX Server to run local development environments.  This post deals with how to get back into a VM that seems horribly locked after your workstation hosting your VM crashes hard. Symptom: System crashed…

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Windows with Claims User gets access denied to a site they had access to earlier in the day

Windows with Claims User gets access denied to a site they had access to earlier in the day

Scenario: Small Farm 3 tiered topology using Windows with Claims implementation aggregating AD with a custom LDAP database to create the claims roles. Symptom: Users of a SharePoint 2010 site get access denied to a site they could access earlier in the day.  As the day goes on, the number of users effected increases.  Eventually only users with full control policies can access the farm. ULS Log error: An exception occurred in Custom Roles claim provider when calling SPClaimProvider.FillResolve(): The…

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