As part of the work I have been doing around generating and managing lab environments using Lability and DSC, one of the things I needed to do was change the permissions on a certificate template within a DSC configuration. Previously, when deploying to Azure, I used the PSPKI PowerShell modules within code executed by …

**Updated 22 Mar 2016 **This task is available in the VSTS Marketplace If you are using Pester to unit test your PowerShell code then there is a good chance you will want to include it in your automated build process. To do this, you need to get Pester installed on your build machine. The usual options would be Manual …

My last post about the SharePoint 2013 MySite Newsfeed and required additional permissions on the User Profile Service Application dealt with adding the required permissions to the UPSA using the SharePoint 2013 GUI. Alternatively, you can add the required permissions using PowerShell: 1 2 3#Grab a reference to the …

This is an issue that we've been bumping up against and have seen a number of other users seeing the same problem with SharePoint 2013 implementations. When looking at the 'Everyone' tab on a user's MySite, the following message is displayed: and the following entries appear in the SharePoint logs: Failure retrieving …

Extending some of the default content types available in SharePoint 2010 can result in unwanted fields being shown. An example is extending the 'Event' default content type, which has three fields attached which you don't seem to be able to edit: In particular, many users would like to remove the Workspace field from …

The default communication scheme for many of the SharePoint 2010 Service Applications is ‘http’ (i.e. unsecured). This can be changed easily in the GUI by selecting the service application and clicking the ‘publish’ ribbon button: It should however be noted that a number of Service Application communication schemes run …

On the face of it, renaming the Managed Metadata Service Application database in SharePoint should be a fairly simple matter. There’s a test box for the database name in the properties of the Service Application and changing the name shown changes the database name. There are however one or two issues with changing the …

While building a portion of our demo SharePoint 2010 farm, I encountered an error when publishing an Access 2010 database to a SharePoint 2010 Access Services site. The error which was shown was ‘ did not respond. Either the server does not exist, Microsoft Access Services are not enabled on the server, or the server …

During a recent SharePoint upgrade using the database attach method, I saw the following recorded in the upgrade error log: [powershell] [PerWebUpgradeAction (4.0.10.0)] [INFO] [13/04/2011 15:55:48]: SPSite Url=http://intranet.domain.com [powershell] [PerWebUpgradeAction (4.0.10.0)] [WARNING] [13/04/2011 15:55:48]: …

When creating the PerformancePoint Service Application, there is no way to control the name of the database that is created, not even when using PowerShell to create the Service Application. The database that gets created is in the form _GUID which for some reason a good many DBAs are not too keen on! The database can …