This post should also be titled “My Penalty for not Reading ALL the Instructions“. As it turns out, when you install the Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Server (first Foundation, then Server) – you are required to run the configuration wizard on your own at the end of the process. I can only assume this [...]
From time to time, deleting the Search Service Application can not be completed through the GUI or through powershell. Sometime you will get an error like this one: The timer job completed, but failed on one or more machines in the farm. And sometimes the PowerShell command runs indefinitely. In these circumstances it’s good old [...]
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Here is a great list SharePoint 2010 site templates and their associated name (so you can use them in your wonderful PowerShell cmdlts… http://www.markus-alt.de/blog/?p=118 BTW: if you wanted to get this list yourself, you just need to use the following PowerShell: Get-SPWebTemplate | select Name, Title
SharePoint 2010 has had some major feature investments around the concept of “multi-tenancy”. What does this mean? In short – it provides the ability to keep data from one customer (or group) separate from one another. Part of the features for managing this is a new site type called a “Tenant Administration Site”. The Tenant [...]
Like many of you, I was (and in some cases) was very confused about how SharePoint 2010 Search and the new FAST Search for SharePoint worked when the FAST product was installed in a SharePoint environment. My understanding was that when FAST was installed, SharePoint Search ceased to exist. Turns out – that was wrong. [...]
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I work at Rackspace on the Dedicated SharePoint team – which means that we create a new SharePoint farm on dedicated hardware for every customer who comes online with us. This translates to only ever needing to create a few WEB Apps and Site Collections per customer. With this in mind – it’s usually easier [...]
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