Change user display name using PowerShell
I have recently extended a web application to enable Form Based Authentication. After a few days I noticed that user display names are showing in the following format: i:0#.f|webbworldfbamembershipprovider|dave@webbworld.local I would prefer to see “Firstname Surname” format. To fix this I can user the Set-SPUser PowerShell command to change…
Access denied when a user click ‘Add document’
I have recently received random reports from users that they are presented with an access denied message when trying to upload files to a document library by clicking the ‘Add document’ link: The permissions all looked fine so I turned…
‘Could not execute CVTRES.EXE’ error when opening Site Web Analytics Reports
While trying to access the Site Web Analytics Reports page for a site I was presented with an error I hadn’t encountered before: An error occurred during the compilation of the requested file, or one of its dependencies. Could not…
Performing an in place upgrade of SharePoint 2010 Foundation to Standard
I have just performed an in-place upgrade of SharePoint 2010 Foundation to Standard 2010 and it was a fairly straight forward process. However if, like me, your SharePoint Foundation 2010 server was previously upgraded from WSS 3.0 then you’ll need…
Remove online presence information
If you are using Microsoft Lync in your organisation then user online status is shows on various SharePoint pages, and various actions are available. If you need to disable this feature then it can be done using Central Administration in…
PowerShell Script to list services running on all servers in a farm
I have written the following script to list the services running on each server in a SharePoint farm and their status, utilising the Get-SPServer cmdlet. <# ——————————————– SharePoint 2010 PowerShell script to list the services running on each server in…
Failed to connect to the configuration database when adding a server to a farm
While adding a new server to an existing SharePoint 2010 farm, to be used as a web front end (WFE) server, I encountered the following error: Failed to connect to the configuration database. An exception of type System.ArgumentNullException was thrown. …
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. …
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