Category Archives: powershell

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

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Dirk

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

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Dirk

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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Rename SharePoint 2010 Central Admin database

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Dirk

I had a post on this for SharePoint 2007 and needed to do the same thing for SharePoint 2010, but wanted to do this the powershell way instead of the stsadm way I used for MOSS. Not sure if that … Continue reading →

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Updating User Profile pictures with powershell on SP2010

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Dirk

I finally had the chance to play around with user profiles. My customer asked me if it was possible to have the pictures of all employees show up in their respective user profiles in SharePoint and this without uploading the … Continue reading →

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