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PowerShell Script: SharePoint Farm Creation

PowerShell Script: SharePoint Farm Creation

For a long time I have been meaning to rewrite the PowerShell script that I have been using to do my SharePoint farm creation and just haven’t gotten around to completing the necessary effort to make it all that I want it to be. I have leveraged the work of others, borrowing a piece here and a snippet there but to honest I haven’t been satisfied. What I really wanted was a script that I can use in my consulting…

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How to: Create Active Directory Users using PowerShell

How to: Create Active Directory Users using PowerShell

Not unlike several posts in recent weeks, tonight’s adventures in PowerShelling started with from a conversation at SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire with the Iowan treasure Todd Klindt. The conversation was around the script that he used to create Active Directory users. I had my own bit of jumbled together code for this purpose, but his has some snazzy ifelse-ness to it and the ability to set Managers and add Pictures that made it especially appealing. At the same time there…

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When in doubt, check ALL the permissions…

When in doubt, check ALL the permissions…

Having just completed my last speaking engagement of 2012 it was time to get back into the swing of things and start playing with troubleshooting a bit.  The dilemma In a continuing effort to evolve my PowerShell build script for SharePoint I spent a few hours with my team playing with different settings.  One of my team members was driving to get better hands on experience with using PowerShell to configure SharePoint. We started with the very standard PSConfig script…

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Review of the new storage “guidance” for SharePoint 2010 SP1

Review of the new storage “guidance” for SharePoint 2010 SP1

Rob D’Oria, father of StoragePoint, has written a very comprehensive review of the new storage “guidance” from Microsoft with regard to the limits on ContentDB size when using RBSEBS.  It is a very long post, but completely worth reading from start to finish.  For a peak at what you can expect, here is a direct excerpt from one of my favorite sections: Everyone hold on, here’s the super-hard backup/restore process you have to follow in this brave new world: Backup…

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The big news: Data Storage Changes for SharePoint 2010

The big news: Data Storage Changes for SharePoint 2010

I go on vacation for one week and they try to change the entire strategy on us, eh?  When I first started hearing rumbles about the changes announced by the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group via their blog it sounded like the world was completely changed and that all previously known storage strategies can be thrown out the window in favor of using RBS and storing whatever you want in the Content DB! Happily that is not at all what was…

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Office Web Apps Service Pack 1 is here!

Office Web Apps Service Pack 1 is here!

It has almost gone overlooked, but Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 are not the only products to get a Service Pack 1 release today.  I know that the Office Web Apps are a bolt on to SharePoint 2010 and so they don’t get a whole lot of attention, but from an end user feature enhancement perspective, I am almost more excited about the Office Web Apps SP1 than anything else released today (Office 365 not withstanding). Sourced directly from Microsoft’s…

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SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is here!

SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is here!

Today Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 which is a rollup of all previous Cumulative Updates through April 2011, which means that deploying directly on top of RTM bits supported, as well as number of stability, performance, and security enhancements based upon customer feedback.  There is a detailed white paper that about the Service Pack that can be found at this location.​ ​ CAVEAT: Microsoft strongly recommends installing the June 2011 Cumulative Update immediately after the installation of…

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Now powered by SharePoint Foundation 2010

Now powered by SharePoint Foundation 2010

Since my world is already mostly SharePoint 2010, I figured it was time to move my blog from Blogger, which has been a great starter experience, to something I am more familiar with, SharePoint Foundation 2010.  I am blessed with many friends who had offered me space on their servers rather than needing to stand up another on at my house to worry about, and I finally took one of them up on the offer. In the coming days you…

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SharePoint 2010 & Site Directory revisited: bug fix request rejected by Microsoft

SharePoint 2010 & Site Directory revisited: bug fix request rejected by Microsoft

We received the official, and well thought out, answer back from Microsoft regarding the Site Directory bug that I reported on with my post “SharePoint 2010 and the Site Directory” back in December 2010.   Here is the official answer from Microsoft: Issue Summary Site collection creation fails with access denied error when the master site directory site collection is located on a web application which is using the new claims aware authentication method. Cause for Rejection and Technical Explanation…

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SharePoint 2010’s Visio Graphics Services: EventIDs 8061 & 8046 unmasked

SharePoint 2010’s Visio Graphics Services: EventIDs 8061 & 8046 unmasked

Getting EventIDs 8061 & 8046 in your ULS Logs and Event Logs on your application server?  Having trouble figuring out exactly what they are trying to tell you?  Finding inconsistent results between site collections?  Let’s dive in… Here are the offending errors: TechNet tells us: quoting directly from the article linked here Symptoms:   One or more of the following symptoms might appear: A file or files might not load. This event appears in the event log: Event ID: 8061 Description:…

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