It is a very exciting day to be in the SharePoint space! We have been speculating and anxiously awaiting this day for a long time, and of course it happens when I am out on vacation! I got the news the the veil was lifted while at lunch and have been anxious to get back to my keyboard ever since. There are so many great new features in this release that I am going to hold back from trying to…
I promised an update on this in my previous article and it is time to share what I have learned. The issue: As many of us have painfully found, PowerPivot v1 on a Claims Based Authentication web application is not supported in SharePoint 2010. I had a case open with Microsoft last year that had the aspirations of rectifying that situation. We had hoped that working with the PowerPivot team (a part of the SQL Server Product team) and the…
Scenario: Using Managed Accounts the way that SharePoint 2010 is designed you allow SharePoint 2010 to manage your password changes automatically for you. Your farm gets into an inconsistent state, or you allow SharePoint 2010 to change your farm admin account and you realize that you cannot start the UPS without knowing the farm account password. What do you do? Resolution: Run the following PowerShell command from the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell as a Farm Administrator: function Bindings() { return…