I go on vacation for a week and Microsoft goes crazy dropping new things in our laps! Just before I left they gave us the gift of Service Pack 1 for SharePoint which was part gift, and part painful testing experiment, but mostly an terrific pile of great new enhancements and features to play with. You can reference my previous articles SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is here! & Office Web Apps Service Pack 1 is here! for all the…
Scenario: You have been trying to start up the User Profile Synchronization Service and it has been in a starting state for hours/days/weeks. Resolution: Run following commands in the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell to stop the service: get-spserviceinstance > driveletter:outputfilelocation.txt After the above command review your output file and you will see a list of services that are running in SharePoint that looks like this: Find out the service ID for user profile synchronization service and then use this command…
In my time working with SharePoint 2010 I have been often amazed at the thought that went into making the product as seamless and clean as possible. It was as though Microsoft listened to all of our gripes and grimaces and attacked them all with a passion to make SharePoint 2010 the best product they ever released. And then there is the User Profiles. Some of my favorite enhanced features of SharePoint 2010: 1.) Scheduled Automated Password Resets – We…