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Enable Document Sets for a site collection

Enable Document Sets for a site collection

September 12, 2013 · by dave.webb · in Features, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, Tips and Tricks

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…

Access denied when running Enable-SPFeature DocumentSet

Access denied when running Enable-SPFeature DocumentSet

September 9, 2013 · by dave.webb · in PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, Troubleshooting

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

PowerShell script to change locale for all sites

August 3, 2013 · by dave.webb · in Customisation, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010

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). …

Add a user to a SharePoint group using PowerShell

Add a user to a SharePoint group using PowerShell

June 23, 2013 · by dave.webb · in PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013

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. …

Install SharePoint 2010 using AutoSPInstaller

Install SharePoint 2010 using AutoSPInstaller

May 31, 2013 · by dave.webb · in Installation, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, Tips and Tricks

I’m about to create a whole new installation of SharePoint 2010 so have decided to take AutoSPInstaller for a test drive. To prepare, I have: Built a new Windows 2008 R2 server and installed Active Directory, creating a new domain…

Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role: configuration error

Application Server Role, Web Server (IIS) Role: configuration error

April 3, 2013 · by dave.webb · in Installation, PowerShell

I’m installing SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012 ‘offline’ – the server has no Internet access.  Within minutes of starting the Preparation Tool to install the prerequisites it has failed to install the Web Server (IIS) Role. The process failed because…

SharePoint Foundation Search Event ID 70

February 4, 2013 · by dave.webb · in PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, Troubleshooting

I have been tasked with investigating an error that is being logged in the Application event log on a SharePoint server recently upgraded to SharePoint 2010 ServicePack 1.  The error is logged as follows: The mount operation for the gatherer application…

Configuration Failed - Failed to create the configuration database

Configuration Failed – Failed to create the configuration database

February 2, 2013 · by dave.webb · in Installation, PowerShell, SharePoint 2013

I’m installing SharePoint Foundation 2013 for the first time on a clean Windows 2012 server and, until now, it was going well.  I have installed the prerequisites and SharePoint Foundation but the Configuration Wizard failed with this error: Failed to…

The local farm is not accessible (SharePoint 2010)

The local farm is not accessible (SharePoint 2010)

December 22, 2012 · by dave.webb · in PowerShell, SharePoint 2010, Troubleshooting

I have just opened the SharePoint Management Shell on a WFE server to be presented with a message I haven’t seen before: The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered. When searching for a solution to…

Automating SharePoint backup using Windows PowerShell

Automating SharePoint backup using Windows PowerShell

December 1, 2012 · by dave.webb · in Backups, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010

I have just started using the following PowerShell script to backup an entire farm to disk every night, the script is called by the Windows Task Scheduler (running the task as the Farm Administrator account). Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell Backup-SPFarm -Directory \\WW-Backup\SharePointBackup…

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