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When you want to do a big script in PowerShell, sometimes it keeps asking you for confirmation even if you did not put the “-Confirm” parameter in your command. The answer is simple, just add -Confirm:$false . Example:Remove-SPWebApplication $mainurl -DeleteIISSite -RemoveContentDatabases -Confirm:$falseSay thanks if it helped 🙂

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SharePoint sends emails to users but doesn’t send emails to Distribution Groups

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There are some rare SharePoint cases where your SharePoint can send alerts to Users but doesn’t want to send anything to Distribution Groups. If your SharePoint sends emails to users it means that your SharePoint outgoing email is well configured. The problem actually comes from Exchange. Go into Exchange Management Console> Recipient Configuration > Distribution Groups. Right-click...Read More

How to Make sure a Solution is added before Activating it

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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

How to Check if SharePoint services are started and with what account they are running

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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

Unknown SQL Exception 297 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.

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I recently came across Unknown SQL Exception 297 in the Event Viewer in two of my SharePoint Deployments. One with SQL 2012 and one with SQL 2008 R2. Here is the full error message. Unknown SQL Exception 297 occurred. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.The user does not have permission to...Read More

Create and Provision a Search Service Application With Powershell

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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

The SharePoint service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not start due to a logon failure

June 15, 2012

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How to fix the error : The SharePoint service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not start due to a logon failure This happens when your service accounts don’t have enough permissions on the local computer. To fix this error you have to go in the Local Security Policy of the...Read More

Sharepoint 2010 Features Names and their GUID for Powershell

June 15, 2012

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In case you need to enable features in SharePoint 2010 and you don’t want to spend a lot of time looking for the GUID, here are all the Sharepoint Features, names and GUID’s. Here is how you enable them: $mainurl = “http://vlad.test.loc” Write-Host -ForegroundColor White ” – Enabling SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure …” -NoNewline...Read More

The given key as not present in the dictionary

June 15, 2012

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If you are getting this error either in PowerShell or with the User Interface :New-SpManagedAccount : The given key was not present in the dictionaryIn order to fix this problem, you have to go in the Active Directory and give the “Authenticated Users” Read Permissions on the account (See image, it will be a lot more clear)...Read More

Install-SPUserSolution : Sandboxed code execution request failed.

June 13, 2012

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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