When publishing a Lync Server topology in an environment where a pilot deployment exists in the same production domain you might run into an error that says “ServicePrincipalNameError: A service principal name operation failed.” when you attempt to publish...

There many cases where you need to send a test email from a given host or server but would not have a mail client to perform this task. The following is the sequence of commands required to send email via Telnet: $ telnet mail.server.com 25 ENTER HELO...

In your customer master page add a tag declaration/import as follows: <%@ Register Tagprefix="wssuc_portal" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture...

This error can drive you nuts if you are dependent on your machine being upto date for Network Access Protection or other purposes requirements. For weeks my machine was stuck to where I could not uninstall the May version of KB2667402 so that I can successfully...

In case you are as frustrated as I am of using a non-touch device to command a touch OS here is the following is a list of Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts: To activate the shortcut press the Windows Key + the listed key... B - Move focus to notification...

In Central Administration you might run into this error where non of the users configured are resolved. This looks and feels very bad but the cause and fix is very minor.   Simply add the present URL as an Alternate Access Mapping for the Central...

If the NetBIOS name of any domain that you are synchronizing with differs from its fully qualified domain name, you must enable NetBIOS domain names on the User Profile service application. If all NetBIOS names are the same as the domain names, you may...

This rarely happens but when it does sometimes it difficult to nail down what the issue could be. In cases where there are more than one servers in the farm, the culprit is usually the Timer Service not operating correctly because it is either down or...

Technorati Tags: Farming , Piggery , Pig Feed , Pigs , Farrowing , Sows , Gilts For those of you familiar with my many recent global relocations, from the USA to Kenya, and now to Zimbabwe also know that I am now an avid farmer in addition to my technology...

There are situations where configuring SharePoint 2010 does not go according to plan as far as the Secure Store Service is concerned. This also affects other services such as the User Profile Synchronization Service etc. When you start getting the message...

For most of us editing the registry has become more of a tired exercise so any other options are certainly welcome. For disabling loopback check I find the PowerShell option to be fast and clean. To execute launch an elevated PowerShell command window...

Trying to connect SharePoint to your AD RMS server gives you this message “The required Windows Rights Management client is present but could not be configured properly. IRM will not work until the WRM client is configured properly”. Ok here I’m assuming...

This is one of those minor things that can get you scratching your head trying to figure what the issue is. Basically this menu option is removed whenever a site has Publishing Features enabled. Deactivating this feature makes the option show up and vice...

When users click on the My Content link from within My Site they get the error: Your personal site cannot be created because the managed path "personal" has not been created for this site. Contact your site administrator for more information...

When users click on the My Content link from within My Site they get the error: Your personal site cannot be created because the managed path "personal" has not been created for this site. Contact your site administrator for more information...

One of the most challenging task in SharePoint workflow seems like it should have been so easy OOB as it is a common use case. Most Approval workflows usually include the user’s manager at some stage. By default there is no intuitive way to dynamically...

If you run into a need to configure a SQL Alias on Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 when the SQL Client tools are not installed then you run the command “cliconfg.exe”. This will allow you add, edit, or remove SQL aliases.

There are a lot of cases where you received an error within SharePoint referring to a feature by it’s GUID. In most scenarios it’s not possible to quickly cross check what this feature is with an internet search or otherwise. Below is a table that can...

There are cases where a server believes it is still part of a farm but it cannot connect to the said farm especially in situations where there was an update or upgrade to the local machine binary. SharePoint requires that you re-run the Config Wizard...

Available Sub Site Templates Site Definition Config Concatenated String Preview Image Name Defined in this WEBTEMP File Team Site STS 0 STS#0 stts.png WEBTEMP.XML Blank Site STS 1 STS#1 stbs.png WEBTEMP.XML Document Workspace STS 2 STS#2 stdw.png WEBTEMP...

   gggWhen trying to crawl regular SharePoint sites and People you receive  “Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository...

Copy the following code and paste it into a text editor, such as Notepad: $ServiceApps = Get-SPServiceApplication $UserProfileServiceApp = "" foreach ($sa in $ServiceApps) {if ($sa.DisplayName -eq " <UserProfileServiceName> "...

So you installed a fresh copy of Exchange Server 2010 and cannot seem to connect to the Exchange server via EMC. Instead you receive the following error: Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: The WinRM client cannot process...

Technorati Tags: Regex Data Services HTML .Net C# Parser Screen Scraping 1.1      Rationale and Purpose Every now and then we all run into situations where we need to interface with legacy web applications and sometimes there is no...

I have been running on a dual boot solution between Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. I now have a new laptop and would like to have the same environment that I have since customized so well. I would have to start from scratch. Solution? Disk2Vhd...