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SharePoint Powershell | Get Detailed Information about Correlation IDs in ULS
I use this often enough I thought I’d write a quick post about it. Basically, whenever an issue occurs on SharePoint we get a nice friendly error message with a correlation ID, which is great for troubleshooting the issues...
Read MoreMicrosoft Gallery | My PowerShell Script Reaches 100 downloads
Back when I was doing a lot of testing with loading test data into sharepoint lists and then dumping them to run another set of test data, the traditional method of deleting one at a time from the list was really slow, so I...
Read MoreSharePoint 2010 | Crawl Not Starting Due To Missing Search Temp Directories
I was working on a search server recently and started getting errors that the crawl component was failing to “CreateTempFolderForCacheFiles” As it turns out, the environment I was working on was an extremely secure farm where...
Read MorePowerShell 3.0 (KB2506143) and SharePoint 2010, Not There Yet
So a bit of a rant, but as it turns out installing the Windows Management Framework 3.0 (KB2506143) on a SharePoint 2010 server is not such a good idea. After installing the Windows Management Framework 3.0 on a SharePoint 2010...
Read MoreTruncate all Items in an SPList in SharePoint Using ProcessBatchData Command
This came up recently in regards to some of our test systems, where we were testing one of our systems that used large amounts of rows in an SPList. As we were adding items through a scripted process “someone” (ok, it was...
Read MoreSharePoint–Use PowerShell To Delete Audit Data From Farm
One of the companies I work for is very conscientious about the amount of resources used in their development and QA environments. They also like to have their SDLC farms as close to production as possible without having...
Read MoreSharePoint–Setting the Super User and Super Reader Accounts for All WebApplications in the Farm
The object cache stores properties about items in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Items in this cache are used by the publishing feature when it renders Web pages. The goals of the object cache are to reduce the load on the...
Read MoreSharePoint 2010 – Change Web Application to use Different Application Pool
When optimizing your farm, one of the recommendations from Microsoft is to only have 10 application pools running on the server (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787(v=office.14).aspx). Limit Maximum value Limit...
Read MorePowerShell–Check for PSSnapIn Before You Load It
Many of the scripts that I build end up being handed off to other groups for implementation or to run on a regular basis. Because of this, any red on the screen from an error message usually ends up in a call. In...
Read MoreSharePoint 2010–User Information Lists and User Profile Cleanup
Recently I was working on a farm and finally got around to being able to enable the User Profile Sync to Active Directory. Everything worked beautifully, but there was a problem in SharePoint with orphaned users in the...
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Now that I’ve been using PowerShell for a while, I’ve found that as I remote onto different servers I’m having to use the Add-PSSnapIn commandlet and remember the various names of snap-ins that I want to use. Because I’m...
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