
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…

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…

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. …
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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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). …