Category Archives: SharePoint 2010

Beware of /bin/ is SP2010 Url’s

Came across troubleshooting an issue with a site collection with the name bin. This site collection had a url like http://portal/sites/bin, making the default homepage http://portal/sites/bin/default.aspx. For some reason the site did not render and I got a HTTP 404 … Continue reading

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How to change the language of a site in SP2010

Notice: the information in this post is not supported by Microsoft. The use of the method described below will revoke your support status for your environment. Use at your own risk This question came up today and I remembered being … Continue reading

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What Every SharePoint Admin Needs to Know About Host Named Site Collections by Kirk Evans

been a while, busy busy busy …. what else just wanted to point out a very good article that sums up all you need to know about Host Named site collectiosn in SharePoint 2010. Find the original article by Kirk … Continue reading

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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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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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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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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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Rename SharePoint 2010 Central Admin database

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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