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I had just completed a PowerShell scripted deployment of a SharePoint farm and was just performing the final checks when I noticed the following error in the crawl logs. “The filtering process has been terminated” This turned out that because in the PowerShell script I had specified that the SharePoint installation location should be different to… Continue Reading →
Read articleThe following script will iterate through all the user profiles and return the account name. Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell; #Load SharePoint User Profile assemblies [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.SharePoint”) [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles”) #Get Context $serviceContext = Get-SPServiceContext -Site “[Site Name]” #Instantiate User Profile Manager $userProfileConfigManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($serviceContext); #Get All User Profiles $profiles = $userProfileConfigManager.GetEnumerator(); #Loop through all user profiles and display account name… Continue Reading →
Read articleMicrosoft Consulting Services in Reading are looking for an experienced SharePoint Developer to join our team. Please feel free to contact me, alternatively see MCS Careers for more detailed information. Please no agencies, unless you are on the PSL, in which case you should know who to contact:-)
Read articleOver the last couple of weeks I have been working on an Office 365 project, and whilst in general I have been impressed with the SharePoint aspects of Office 365. There have been a couple of gotchas. I will be positing a couple of articles dealing with these in more detail. Anyway, I thought it would be… Continue Reading →
Read articleThis script has already been produced in a previous post, but for convenience I thought I would replicate it here. #Get the Site Collection $SiteCollection = Get-SPSite http://%5BSharePoint Site] #Change to you site URL #Get the Term Store ID $TaxSession = Get-SPTaxonomySession -Site $SiteCollection $TermStore = $TaxSession.TermStores[“Managed Metadata Service”] #Change to your service name $TermStore.Id… Continue Reading →
Read articleRecently I was asked by one of our developers to provide a list of the standard user properties; this took a bit of time to dig up, as the planning document is 300+ pages. So to save a bit of time in the future I thought I would replicate this information here. User Profile property… Continue Reading →
Read articleI was recently asked to provide some code which could query the managed metadata service of a SharePoint 2010 implementation and extract the terms for use in a separate web site. This turned out to be a bit more complicated than I initially thought as the architecture called for use of the SharePoint Web Services,… Continue Reading →
Read articleContent types are a very useful feature of SharePoint 2010 (and earlier versions), especially in regards to organising your documents and content. In effect a content type is a type of generic SharePoint content for example when you click on the new document option in a document library, you are using a document content type,… Continue Reading →
Read articleContinuing my experience of attempting to configure the WSS adapter for a clients BizTalk/SharePoint integration project. As mentioned in my previous post I was having an authentication issue between the clients SharePoint and BizTalk instances. The message I was getting back (not in BizTalk unfortunately) was the following 401.2 message. “HTTP 401.2 – Unauthorized: Logon failed due to server… Continue Reading →
Read articleWhilst attempting to set up the WSS adapter for a client I was receiving the following error when trying to call the WSS adapter web service. “RequestFailed: The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseHeader Detail=CR must be followed by LF” This seemed to me to be an issue where BizTalk was receiving an error that it could not… Continue Reading →
Read articleWhilst configuring the SharePoint Adapter for BizTalk for a client today, I came across a couple of issues. The first error made me think that I had really screwed up the installation of the WSS adapter. I was getting the following error when trying to browse to the web service. “Request format is unrecognized. Description:… Continue Reading →
Read articleI was involved recently in a TFS implementation for one of our clients where after succesfull installation and configuration of TFS/SharePoint they received an error message when creating a team site using the agile template. The initial error was coming back as the connection to the SharePoint portal had failed and it could not complete… Continue Reading →
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