In the Plan permissions section of Plan for profile synchronization (SharePoint Server 2010) it is claimed that to synchronize user profiles in SharePoint 2010 with Novell eDirectory it is required to have Write access: “Read, Write, and Compare...

When adding a new admin user to a SharePoint farm the simplest way is to add the person as a SharePoint Farm Administrator, but then you ignore that to enable the user to run PowerShell (PS) commands you also need to execute Add-SPShellAdmin. You typically...