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Very recently I had to change a bunch of accounts from one domain to another in SharePoint. Rather than doing this piecemeal for each individual account, I decided to write a simple script to do this for me. Since I couldn’t find this online, I figured I’d demonstrate how I did it.     Start …

I was recently working on a customer SharePoint site when I was running into this issue with trying to import new data into their environment.     Import-SPWeb : Could not find language 1040     It was truly very frustrating as I had already installed what I thought was the correct language pack. Actually …

I was seeing some odd behaviour on a client site a while back. Below is a list of the various issues I was seeing.     When trying to insert a link into a web page     I was seeing the following error.     Also in the ULS, I was seeing the following …

I recently needed a means of getting a list of all users who had a profile picture associated with their SharePoint account (well, the client was actually more interested in knowing who didn’t have a profile picture, but this result below worked for them). Below is a simple PowerShell script for being able to get …

I must have run into this dozens of times, and I feel like I should finally blog this. Essentially the problem is that you’ve mounted the SharePoint installation CD/DVD as an ISO (because seriously, who uses physical media these days?) and in doing so, when you reboot the ISO is no longer mounted. I’m sure …

A while back I was working on a customer’s broken SharePoint farm (and trust me, this was not a healthy beast), and I ran into a situation where I couldn’t delete the Search Service Application (though I resolved that separately), and subsequently the associated databases. The databases were a huge PITA (Pain In The Arse) …

A while ago I was trying to create a farm at a client site and ran into an issue where I couldn’t create the farm because I would receive the error message “Could not obtain exclusive lock on database ‘model’. Retry the operation later.” Just to note, after having gotten past this step (which I’ll …

This is surprisingly easy to do actually, it’s just 2 simple lines of PowerShell. $farm = Get-SPFarm$farm.BuildVersion The result will be something like this below. Then all you need to do is take that number and you can look at the version numbers over at Todd Klindt’s blog. He always keeps these lists up to …

During the setup of your Search service application, if you created your search service using PowerShell, you’re be able to specify a default search index location similar to the lines below. $NewIndexPath = “D:\TOP\SearchIndex” New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent –SearchTopology $newtopology -SearchServiceInstance $hostWF1 -IndexPartition 0 -RootDirectory $NewIndexPath However, believing that you’ve set it properly, and actually being able to …

One night recently I was trying to install a whack load of new SharePoint updates, and I was having major pains trying to get the psconfig tool to run (both the UI tool and the command line version). I finally came up with a series of steps that works for both SharePoint 2010 and 2013. …