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I was asked by a customer to produce a PowerShell script to iterate over all of the sites in a particular site collection and change the search target to the following address “http://[searchsite]/”.  This is the result of that request. $site = Get—SPSite "http://[site]" foreach ($web in $site.Allwebs) {     Write—Host "Modifying all search result …

If you’re getting an error on load of PerformancePoint about it being unable to load (basically you get a Windows error that your application failed to launch successfully – such as “PerformancePoint dashboard designer has stopped working”), the link below could resolve your issue (it worked for me).  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981692 Basically this will reset all your …

This is a sponsored community site (by Idera), it’s worth checking out. http://secretsofsharepoint.com/ What I like most about this site is the following. The Tips section The Forums Some of the downloadable webcasts are quite helpful

Like it or not, this may someday save your life.  Knowing how and why certain rules take precedence over others is the bread and butter of CSS, and also why it can be such a pain to master.  This article lays it really well and explains how the points system works.  Hopefully you’ll never see …

I found a really simple one liner PowerShell that will tell you which site collections are in which content databases. Just copy this line (verbatim – no changes necessary) to a SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, and voila! Get-SPContentDatabase | %{Write-Output "- $($_.Name)”; foreach($site in $_.sites){write-Output $site.url}} The reference article is below. http://sharepointrelated.com/2012/03/09/get-site-collections-per-content-database-one-liner/

I recently ran into a situation where I came across the following error when trying to apply the August 2011 CU to a SharePoint 2010 SP1 system. The operation cannot be performed on database <Database Name> because it is involved in a database mirroring session.  ALTER DATABASE statement failed. In order to get past this, …

Time to engage mirroring on your SharePoint databases?  Woah… slow down there horsey!  There’s a few things you should know before you just blindly setup mirroring on all the DBs in SQL. Not every SharePoint DB is meant to be mirrored.  The list of those not meant for mirror are as follows. Usage and Health …

Love this post! Why do people fight so much over what ultimately amounts to such a small investment for such a huge return. http://blog.brainlitter.com/2012/03/21/just-get-the-sharepoint-enterprise-cal-already/

This post covers some important points about how remote mode works when in a multi-server environment, as well as details on resource limits and governance. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff603636.aspx

This is a really great post to follow on how to integrate together SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint 2010. By its very name (Integrating SharePoint 2010 and SQL Reporting Services 2008 in 6 easy steps), it’s easy! Note: You will already need to have Reporting Services installed with your SQL Server 2008 R2 installation …