Server Error in ‘/’ Application when logging in using FBA
I have just extended a web application to allow users to login using FBA (Forms Based Authentication), however, when logging in the following error is generated: Server Error in ‘/’ Application. So, what could have caused this? Firstly I checked…
Enable FILESTREAM and provision a Remote Blob Store
Binary large objects, known as BLOBs, are used to store large binary data such as Office documents and media. By default BLOBs are stored in the content database on the SQL server. Today I am going to enable FILESTREAM on…
PowerShell script to export all sites in a site collection to a seperate file
I have a requirement to export all sites with in site collection to a separate backup file. With lots of sub-sites I thought the best way to do this would be with a PowerShell script that utilises the Export-SPWeb command. …
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…
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