I came across the below error when trying to create a new web application via PowerShell against a 2013 farm. "Specified value is not supported for the domainname parameter error when creating web apps" This appears to have been caused by the machine loosing connectivity to the domain so even though my server was domain... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2013 Error: The filtering process has been terminated
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 →
Error: The content processing pipeline failed to process the item. ( Object reference not set to an instance of an object. )
I came across the following error in the crawl logs of a SharePoint 2013 instance. "The content processing pipeline failed to process the item. ( Object reference not set to an instance of an object. )" In my case this turned out to be because I had deleted the managed metadata service that had been... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2013: Get User Profile Properties via PowerShell
The 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 →
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