Pre-requisite: These are few steps to be done prior to getting the User Profiles provisioned. Understand the new User Profiles architecture in SharePoint 2010. Few good articles are http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049(office.14).aspx and...

You create a new User Profile Service Application and try browsing to the Manage link for the User Profile Service Application, this page might fail with the following error, If you filter on the "User Profiles" category in the ULS Logs, you should see...

SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization has undergone a major architectural change. I have attached few articles below which explain this in more details. Now back to upgrade considerations, one of the major concept is the introduction of the "User...

In SharePoint 2007 (MOSS v3) we have an option in the Office Server Search User Interface to configure a specific Web Front End as the server to be used for crawling. This functionality is very useful as it allows us to have a dedicated WFE for crawling...

Faced an odd problem today! I had installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (SP2 + Oct CU) on a Windows 2008 Server with IIS 7. I then tried to create a Content Deployment Path on the server. 1. Browse to http://centraladmin-url/_admin/DeploymentPath...

While running content deployment import job on destination farm, you get the following warning message and the import job completes successfully. This message would appear when trying to import a View or a Form template document. ====================...

Technorati Tags: sharepoint content deployment import While running content deployment import job on destination farm, you get the following error message and the import job fails. This message would appear when trying to import a User. =============...

You might face a peculiar problem when you implement the custom dictionary functionality in SharePoint. This functionality is documented under "Plan dictionary customizations" section of article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263367...

Recently I researched on case where the SharePoint Service Pack 2 upgrade failed with the following exception. [SPIisWebSiteWssSequence] [ERROR] [7/18/2009 11:13:56 PM]: Action 3.1.3.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPIisWebSiteWssSequence failed. [SPIisWebSiteWssSequence...

I had few thousand user profiles in my SSP and needed to delete them. So here is a script that I wrote to list all the user profiles in an SSP. If you need to remove the user profiles, then just use the UserProfileManager.RemoveUserProfile method and...

Another script I wrote is to delete all items from a List. ################################################################################################### [System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral...

I have been experimenting with PowerShell scripting for the past few months. Below is a script I have written to remove all users in a specific SharePoint group. There have been many instances where we find users have added too many individual user accounts...

We had an interesting case the other day. The customer had a variation enabled SharePoint site with multiple sites for different languages. He would export one of the language based site and sends it to the company that handles the translation. Once the...

When you do a people search on SharePoint, you see the results in the "Results by Social Distance" view. The other view to choose is "View by Relevance". In case you find that the output shows the results by default in "Results by Relevance" and the link...

If you apply the Obsidian Theme to your MySite, the Colleague tracker webpart might show some blank rows! It will look something like this, On investigating further by selecting that area using the mouse, you find that the text is actually there. This...

What this blog describes is the steps you need to get SharePoint to crawl a Forms based Authentication site. What are the issues you may face and how to resolve them. Requirements: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 A forms based authentication enabled...