Joe Rodgers
Various posts on my daily findings with SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2007
Report SharePoint Content Source Last Crawl Duration
Here's a simple Windows PowerShell script example to list out the search service content sources and...
Date: 03/06/2015
Export Test-SPContentDatabase Results to a CSV File
If you want to collect the results from Test-SPContentDatabase into a CSV file, you can do some with...
Date: 02/20/2015
Set PowerShell ISE as the Default Program for Opening PowerShell Scripts
If you want to set PowerShell ISE as the default application for opening PowerShell script files...
Date: 02/20/2015
Enabled Forms Based Authentication in ADFS 3.0
Because I always forget where this setting is, and I see several of unanswered and incorrect forum...
Date: 10/15/2014
The spelling check cannot be completed because there is no dictionary installed for the current language
If you are receiving the following error trying to use the spell check feature in SharePoint 2010 or...
Date: 01/24/2014
Wildcard Inclusion Used to Create Personal Sites Does Not Exist
If you are leveraging Personal Sites in SharePoint 2013 you may run into an error with the...
Date: 12/16/2013
SharePoint 2013 Maintenance Window Notifications
SharePoint 2013 introduced a new class called SPMaintenanceWindow. SPMaintenanceWindow...
Date: 09/30/2013
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Assembly Types and Corresponding Type Ids
Posting this for reference for folks upgrading SharePoint 2003/2007/2010/2013. Some of these Type...
Date: 08/21/2013
SharePoint 2007 Assembly Types and Corresponding Type Ids
Posting this for reference for folks upgrading SharePoint 2003/2007/2010/2013. Some of these Type...
Date: 08/21/2013
WSS 2003 Assembly Types and Corresponding Type Ids
Posting this for reference for folks upgrading SharePoint 2003/2007/2010/2013. Some of these...
Date: 08/21/2013
Upgrading SharePoint 2010 to the December 2012 CU or Later
10/9/2013: The August 2013 CU Refresh (7106.5002) and later CUs will no longer flag this issue as an...
Date: 06/18/2013
SharePoint Patch Reference
SharePoint Foundation 2013 Release Version KB Download RTM 15.0.4420.1017 n/a n/a March 2013 CU...
Date: 06/12/2013
Find the Workflow Service URL for a SharePoint 2013 Farm
In case anyone needs to find the registered workflow service address for a SharePoint 2013 farm,...
Date: 05/08/2013
PartialChain: A certificate chain could not be built to a trusted root authority.
If you received this error message on a SharePoint 2013 farm, you can use the steps below to resolve...
Date: 04/19/2013
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryTopology With a Custom Path
If you hit this error message below, it is likely due to your custom index location path having a...
Date: 03/18/2013
Delete Table Based Extended Properties on a SQL Database
There’s probably a much better way to do this, but here is a snippet of TSQL that will delete all of...
Date: 03/07/2013
Delete Column Based Extended Properties on a SQL Database
There’s probably a much better way to do this, but here is a snippet of TSQL that will delete all of...
Date: 03/07/2013
Error Saving Your Access 2013 Web App as an .app Package
If you are getting an error tying to save your Access 2013 Web App as an app package, either for...
Date: 02/22/2013
Removing the Upgrade Status Bar in SharePoint 2013
In SharePoint 2013, after you upgrade a site collection to “14 mode,” site collection administrators...
Date: 02/14/2013
"Sideloading of apps is not enabled on this site"
In order to publish a SharePoint hosted app to a site collection the site must be based on the...
Date: 02/04/2013
Unsuccessfully Modifying RTE2ToolbarExtension.xml
If you have modified RTE2ToolbarExtension.xml file and browsed back your SharePoint publishing site...
Date: 01/30/2013
PowerShell to List Activated Features for a Site and Web
Here is a snippet of Windows PowerShell code to list all the activated Features for a site...
Date: 01/04/2013
Programmatically Setting IIS Log Fields
IIS 6.0 VBScript: Set IIsWebServerObj = GetObject("IIS://localhost/W3SVC") For Each Object...
Date: 12/13/2012
Get-SPWeb : Access to this Web site has been blocked.
If you are using PowerShell to enumerate SPSite or SPWeb objects in your farm, you may have...
Date: 10/01/2012
How to Change the RetryDeliveryInterval for SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 introduced several new APIs in SP1, one of which is the RetryDeliveryInterval...
Date: 05/21/2012
Application Log Warning - ILM Certificate Could not be Created
If you see these either or both of the warnings messages below in your Application Event Logs after...
Date: 02/03/2012
How To Set the Daily Time Window for Large Queries Settings in PowerShell
Here’s a quick script to set the “Daily Time Window for Large Queries” for all the web...
Date: 01/19/2012
Add a User or Group to the SPWebApplication User Policy for all Web Applications in the farm
Here are some PowerShell example to add a domain user or group to the User Policy for a...
Date: 01/10/2012
How to Update the SequenceNumber on an SPEventReceiver via PowerShell
The following will demonstrate how to update the SequenceNumber on an SPEventReceiver via Windows...
Date: 01/03/2012
Corrupt WMI Causing SharePoint Search Provisioning to Fail
I worked an issue with a customer yesterday that was causing the SharePoint Search Service to fail...
Date: 05/25/2011
SharePoint 2010 Beta2 Prerequisite Downloads Links
If you are like me and are trying to install SharePoint 2010 on a machine that does not have...
Date: 12/04/2009
One or more files in the restored site collection will exceed the maximum supported path length. Please select a shorter destination site address and try again.
I had a customer encounter an error while trying to restore a site collection using STSADM -O...
Date: 05/28/2009
Latest WSS & MOSS Patches and Service Pack 2 04/2009
Good news for those of you who like the “pleasure” of patching SharePoint, we have four new updates...
Date: 05/15/2009
How to Disable Property Promotion In WSS
I was working with a customer recently that has a business need to disable property...
Date: 05/11/2009
Flush BlobCache on all Servers In the Farm
A colleague of mine was working on a BlobCache issue with a customer. During troubleshooting,...
Date: 04/24/2009
WSS and MOSS Language Pack Slipstreaming
In case you didn’t know, you can slipstream server pack 1 (or the latest SP) of a language pack into...
Date: 03/10/2009
Latest WSS & MOSS Patches 02/2009
The WSS and MOSS server packages for the February Cumulative Update have been released. These...
Date: 03/10/2009
Latest WSS and MOSS Patches
Update, see the latest update on the February CU packages here. Great news for WSS and MOSS...
Date: 12/17/2008
Lastest WSS and MOSS Patches - 10/2008
Please refer to the newest updates, posted here:...
Date: 11/03/2008
Lastest WSS and MOSS Patches - 9/2008
For those of you that are building a new WSS and/or MOSS farm, I've assembled a list of the patches...
Date: 09/16/2008
WSS and MOSS Infrastructure Updates Released
Today we released some very important updates for WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2007, Project Server 2007,...
Date: 07/15/2008
A SharePoint "Related" Patch
There's an IIS 6.0 update that recently came out that should be applied to all WSS/MOSS servers, as...
Date: 07/02/2008
Windows SharePoint Services & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server hotfixes for March 27, 2008
The latest post SP1 global WSS and MOSS patches are: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007...
Date: 04/14/2008
Lastest SharePoint 2003 Post SP3 Updates Released
Just in case anyone is looking, the WSS & SPS 2003 post SP3 rollup packages have been released....
Date: 03/17/2008
Install Zune 2.3 on Server 2008 x64
After a couple failed attempts and a bunch of swearing at the "The media for installation package...
Date: 02/03/2008
WSS 2003 Post SP3 Hotfix Package Released
Details are in KB941412, but it's got a couple notable updates, one specifically for a New Zealand...
Date: 01/31/2008
Blank IIS Manager on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Servers
If you are experiencing a opening a blank IIS 6.0 server manager snapin and/or seeing Event IDs...
Date: 01/08/2008
Keep Tabs on Newly published content for MOSS 2007
Wanna keep tabs on new MOSS 2007 TechNet articles being published? Check out this TechNet site under...
Date: 01/07/2008
Grant Users Admin Access to all Site Collections per Web Application
In SharePoint 2003, we had an option in the central admin to add users and/or domain groups to a...
Date: 01/04/2008
Forms Authentication with WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007
Steve Peschka has released a great three-part article on Forms Authentication. If you are planning...
Date: 12/19/2007