The scenario is as follows: You are administering a central SQL Server, which hosts SharePoint databases for many DEV/QA test farms. Those farms come and go as VMs with broken SharePoints are removed and new are set up. If your team is sloppy, this can happen even a few times per month (depending on the

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How to discover your SharePoint farms on SQL Server without the use of the SharePoint API

(cross-posted from my blog at http://sharepointduffbert.com/2013/09/04/fixing-the-infopath-cannot-open-the-following-file-xxxxxx-the-parameter-is-incorrect-problem/) My SharePointBuddy (SPB) recently ran into an issue on an InfoPath form she was working on. Someone went in to try and update the form, and they received the following error: This wasn’t a form we wanted to recreate from scratch, yet most attempts to fix it weren’t giving the

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Fixing the “InfoPath cannot open the following file: xxxxxx The parameter is incorrect” problem…

Error when attempting to access Configure service accounts. SharePoint 2010/2013 Issue: Attempting to configure service accounts errors – Correlation ID shows the following error syntax “Application error when access /_admin/FarmCredentialManagement.aspx, Error=Some or all identity references could not be translated. at system.security.principal.NTAccount….” The story: Being a diligent admin, I was cleaning up unused accounts for simplicity

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Error when attempting to access Configure service accounts – SharePoint 2010/2013

Earlier on this community, I started a discussion of “Powerful SharePoint PowerShell Direction” http://goo.gl/DPIr75.  Essentially I’ve been in awe of the direction started by these three blogs:  Wictor Wilén — SharePoint Central Admin Productivity Tip: http://goo.gl/XmvVxg Ryan Dennis–Customizing the SharePoint 2013 Suite Bar Branding: http://goo.gl/QvYIep Chris Stretton–Mastering the SharePoint 2013 Suit Bar: http://goo.gl/y8olSi     Starting with Wictor’s basic PowerShell

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More Powerful SharePoint PowerShell Commands – Part 2

Follow the Hacking SharePoint 2013 Search series: http://www.portalsolutions.net/WhatWeKnow/pslabs/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=2 Code Samples for this article: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SharePoint-Search-2013-d47a613d Seeing the “Making Synonyms Visible in SharePoint 2013 Search Results” post by Christoffer Vig reminded me of the earlier research I did during the SharePoint 2013 TAP on FSIS/Juno bits that were included with the pre-RTM binaries. What follows is the

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Blogged: Custom FAST ESP-like pipeline stages are possible with SharePoint 2013 Search

(cross-posted from my blog at http://sharepointduffbert.com/2013/08/27/how-to-delete-document-library-folders-that-are-locked-or-checked-out/) I got a help desk case where the customer was trying to delete a folder from a document library. But every time she tried it, she got the error message below. I tried to delete it and got the same result. It didn’t matter if it was through the browser

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How to delete Document Library folders that are “locked” or “checked out”…