When you deploy .wsp solutions and  you script your “Add-SpSolution  and Install-SpSolution”  in a row, PowerShell might throw an error because the Solution didn’t finish uploading on the farm before you try to activate it. Here is a example of a do-while loop to make sure that the solution you are adding is fully uploaded and...Read More

Before you run a SharePoint script to do anything, it’s always good to check if all the required SharePoint services are running.  However, we often forget to do that, and when we get deployment errors, it takes awhile to find out that the timer service did not start. Here is a script that you could...Read More

Here is a Cool Script to Create and Provision a new Search Service Application in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell.  If you split the roles between servers, you can put (example : $querysever = ” WFE1″ Here is the script.  If you have any questions, do not hesitate. Say thanks if it helped 🙂 $ErrorActionPreference =...Read More

This is a really tricky error I had when trying to deploy a Sand-boxed Solution using PowerShell on a new farm.  The error “Install-SPUserSolution : Sandboxed code execution request failed.”  happened with PowerShell, and with the GUI. I looked in the ULS log and found this: Sandboxed code execution request failed. – Inner Exception: System.InvalidOperationException    Server stack trace:...Read More