Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer – on Windows 7 with IE 10
Since upgrading to Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 I have not been able to open SharePoint document libraries with Windows Explorer, instead I receive this error message: Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer I…
Enable Document Sets for a site collection
Document sets are used to organise groups of similar or related documents and can be useful for managing projects. This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled at the site collection using the Enable-SPFeature PowerShell command. Enable-SPFeature DocumentSet…
Windows could not start the SharePoint 2010 Administration Service
I have restored our SharePoint 2010 farm in a lab ahead of a disaster recovery test and everything seemed to go well apart from being unable to start the SharePoint 2010 Administration service – it threw this error message: Windows…
Change the location of usage logs
By default SharePoint stores it’s usage logs in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\LOGS but if a server doesn’t have a large C: drive then it is easy to change the location to a larger drive. Here is how: 1….
Access denied when running Enable-SPFeature DocumentSet
While trying to enable Document Sets on a SharePoint 2010 Server site collection it failed, stating Access Denied, when using the following command: Enable-SPFeature DocumentSet -URL http://intranet This was a very simple mistake – I was not logged in as…
PowerShell script to change locale for all sites
In response to a user post on Windows 2008 Forums I wrote this PowerShell script to change the locale (regional settings) for each site in a given site collection, as by default the locale is set to en-US (United States). …
SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2) – The installation of this package failed
I’ve just downloaded Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SharePoint 2010 and it failed to install. I ran oserversp2010-kb2687453-fullfile-x64-en-us.exe and it extracted the files OK but then returned this message: The installation of this package failed. Upon reading the %temp%\wss-x-none_MSPLOG.LOG file…
SharePoint Designer error: Value does not fall within the expected range
After checking out a page to edit using SharePoint Designer I was presented with an unfamiliar error: soap: ServerServer was unable to process request. —> Value does not fall within the expected range. This is the first time I have encountered…
Backup-SPFarm error – The backup job failed
In response to a user query on www.windows2008forums.co.uk I have managed to replicate the error generated while using the Backup-SPFarm command to backup an entire farm. Backup-SPFarm -BackupMethod Full -Directory D:\Backups\ The After trawling through the spbackup.log file I found…
Add a user to a SharePoint group using PowerShell
It’s fairly easy to add a user to a SharePoint group using the New-SPUser command. All you need to know is the URL of the site, the name of the user and the group they are to become a member of. …