Author Archives: Dirk

Cumulative updates packaging changed for SharePoint 2010

while browsing the updates page on Technet I found: The packaging of cumulative updates changed as of August 31, 2011. The following packages are provided for cumulative updates: • SharePoint Foundation 2010 • SharePoint Foundation 2010 + SharePoint Server 2010 … Continue reading

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Manage automatic propagation of variation pages

I was asked today to disable the automatic propagation of variation pages for one of our site collections. Immediately I checked the Technet article for this. According to the Technet article I needed to execute the following Powershell scripts: Unfortunately … Continue reading

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Remove HTTP Response Headers for internet facing SharePoint sites

if you are serious about to publish an internet facing SharePoint site you have to consider security. One of the first things a possible hacker will inspect are the HTTP Response Headers. I usually use the Firefox Developper toolbar to … Continue reading

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Update All Web Applications with Powershell

long time no post just a quick post with a simple command. I needed to update all the Default Time zone settings for all the web applications in a SharePoint 2010 farm. Here’s how to do it in a single … Continue reading

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Fix: Unable to activate worker process proxy object within the worker process (by Sven Häfker)

Encountered the same issue as described by Sven Häfker and for sure his fix did the trick Sven Häfker’s post: Fix: Unable to activate worker process proxy object within the worker process Issue: We have encountered an issue that the … Continue reading

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Getting rid of “Could not find stored procedure ‘dbo.Search_GetRecentStats’” error

another one of those errors that can appear in your ULS logs which can easily be solved. This error also logs events in the Application eventlog with ID 6398 and 5586. I found the solution to this issue on the … Continue reading

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Getting rid of “Missing server side dependencies” MissingWebPart error in Health Analyzer for Central Admin – Update

Now that I am finalizing some of my farm installation I am starting to pay attention to those small issues reported by the Health Analyzer. One of those errors in there is the following: Title Missing server side dependencies. Severity … Continue reading

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Where is the RSS Viewer web part in SP 2010?

Like everything in SharePoint why make things simple if you can make it hard Turns out that if you want the RSS Viewer webpart, you need to activate the “SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection features” feature in your site collection … Continue reading

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Fixing the Usage and Health Data Collection Service Application Proxy (By Tristan Watkins)

Unfortunately in every farm that I have provisioned so far using powershell I keep running into this issue that the Usage and Health Data Collection Service Application Proxy is set to Stopped. The fix that Tristan Watkins describes on his … Continue reading

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Provision SharePoint 2010 Search with custom database names

I’m more of a mitliple scripts guy for configuring my SharePoint 2010 farms than a 1 humongous script guy that does everything. I prefer to use one script for installing my binaries and creating/joining the farm and then several scripts … Continue reading

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