Farm Solution Deployment Problems –“Could not load file or assembly…”
When building my most recent project, I had no issues deploying my solution from Visual Studio directly to the farm, however once the solution was packaged and deployed via PowerShell, I started...
View ArticleSelective Authentication can Kill the People Picker in a Two-Way Trust
One thing to watch out for in a two-way trust scenario with the People Picker. Typically with the People Picker in a two-way forest trust, you do not have to make any changes to SharePoint to resolve...
View ArticleSharePoint Cannot Send Mail to Itself
When using the built-in mechanism to send email from SharePoint (or SPUtility.SendEmail), SharePoint stamps a X-Mailer header of: [crayon-515e8fb585e18-i/] If SharePoint is configured to send to the...
View ArticleSharePoint Health Analyzer Rules Cannot be Automatically Activated During F5...
When attempting to develop a SharePoint Health Analyzer rule and using F5 deployment, an error message will occur during the deployment process: [crayon-515e8fb5846a5/] This is because Visual Studio...
View ArticlePowerShell Remoting to a SharePoint Server with PowerShell v3 Installed
If you have a SharePoint Server with PowerShell v3 (part of the Windows Management Framework 3.0) installed on it and wish to use PowerShell Remoting in order to manage SharePoint 2010, you may find...
View ArticleNauplius.SP.UserSync Release – SharePoint Foundation User Synchronization
SharePoint Foundation does not include any mechanism to automatically synchronize User Information found in each Site Collection after the user has been added to the Site Collection. This simple timer...
View ArticleInstalling SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 2 beta on Windows Server 2012
The SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 2 beta has been released on Connect today. With this public beta comes ability to install SharePoint 2010 (including Office Web Apps and Project Server 2010) on...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 April 2013 Cumulative Updates
SharePoint Foundation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2794728 SharePoint Server 2010: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775353 Project Server 2010: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2775426 Office 2010...
View ArticleExporting the SharePoint Root Authority Certificate from PowerShell
If you need to export the SharePoint Root Authority Certificate from PowerShell, here is the process you’ll want to follow: [crayon-5169e0bc16fb3/]
View ArticleNauplius.ADLDS.FBA 1.6
In addition to previous improvements found in 1.5 beta, Nauplius.ADLDS.FBA 1.6 for AD LDS configuration and User Profile import now supports non-Default zones! Other improvements include moving the...
View ArticleIncoming Email Service Job Lock Type Change between SharePoint 2010 and 2013
In SharePoint 2010, the Incoming Email service timer job had an SPJobLockType of None, which means that the job ran on all servers in the farm, given the Incoming Email service was provisioned. In...
View ArticleSharePoint Foundation 2013, the LdapMembershipProvider and LdapRoleProvider...
SharePoint Foundation 2013 ships with the dll that provides the Microsoft.Office.Server.Security.LdapMembershipProvider and Microsoft.Office.Server.Security.LdapRoleProvider classes. Yay! Right?...
View ArticleThe Fill Factor Mystery
The Microsoft recommendation for SharePoint database fill factor has changed over the years. In SharePoint 2007, the recommendation was 70. However, a new stored procedure was introduced in the...
View ArticleNauplius.ADLDS.Provider.2013 1.0 Released
This is a straight port of the previous AD LDS provider for SharePoint Foundation 2010. This provider allows SharePoint Foundation administrators to connect to an LDAP-based directory service. Please...
View ArticleApril 2013 Cumulative Update and MS13-035 BlobCache Errors
In SharePoint 2010, the April 2013 Cumulative Update and MS13-035 cause blobcache errors that look similar to this in the ULS log: [crayon-517cbfc1f2085/] Others have identified that the SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 April 2013 Cumulative Updates
SharePoint Foundation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2751999 SharePoint Server 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2726992 Project Server 2013: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2737990 Office Web...
View ArticleNauplius.WAS 0.1 Release
The initial release of Nauplius.WAS, or Word Automation Services. This simple project (that needs a UI improvement :-)) allows you to convert supported file formats to other supported file formats, by...
View ArticleSlipstreaming the SharePoint 2013 April 2013 Cumulative Update
Okay, that was a misleading title. As we know, with the SharePoint 2010 post-June 2012 Cumulative Updates, you can no longer slipstream them into the base media due to the post-June 2012 Cumulative...
View ArticleSlow SharePoint 2013 April 2013 Cumulative Update Extraction
When running /extract against the April 2013 Cumulative Update, it takes… hours. Using Process Monitor, it appears that the CU is going through the entire CU exe to identify and extract the files, in...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 April 2013 Cumulative Update Fails
When running the Config Wizard for the SharePoint 2013 upgrade with My Sites deployed, you may run across an error similar to this which causes the upgrade to fail: [crayon-51868801c4463/] This is due...
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