Technical articles on SharePoint, PowerShell, Active Directory and software development by Ingo Karstein — archive since 2010.https://blog.kenaro.com/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/set-profile-sync-account-permissions-for-sharepoint-on-premises-in-active-directory-via-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/set-profile-sync-account-permissions-for-sharepoint-on-premises-in-active-directory-via-powershell/Here is a PowerShell script to add "Profile Sync" account in Active Directory to "Default Domain Context" and "Configuration Context"... The outcome is the same as you would add…Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:52:00 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-server-migration-lot-of-webparts-not-found-during-mount-spcontentdatabase-error-in-uls-safe-mode-did-not-start-successfully/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-server-migration-lot-of-webparts-not-found-during-mount-spcontentdatabase-error-in-uls-safe-mode-did-not-start-successfully/Today I'm preparing a migration of SharePoint Server 2016 to 2019. On Premisses, of course. Now I was ready to attach the old content databases. In doing so, I got an unexpected…Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:24:56 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/fix-sharepoint-server-on-prem-database-permissions-using-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/fix-sharepoint-server-on-prem-database-permissions-using-powershell/For some time now, when reinstalling SharePoint Server (2019 or Subscription Edition), I have noticed that after creating the ConfigDB and Central Administration content database,…Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:54:56 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/push-large-repository-to-github-using-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/push-large-repository-to-github-using-powershell/To push a large repository to GitHub is's one approach to do it step by step: Only some commits at a time. Here is how I do it using Powershell: The name of the remote respository…Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:14:17 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/internal-server-error-on-sharepoint-server-2019-o-premises-after-update/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/internal-server-error-on-sharepoint-server-2019-o-premises-after-update/Currently I investigate a problem. A SharePoint Server 2019 page showed me an Internal Server Error 500. SharePoint Server 2019 is installed on Windows Server 2022. The August…Mon, 18 Sep 2023 14:17:17 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-7-skip-certificate-check-for-win-and-linux/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-7-skip-certificate-check-for-win-and-linux/Here is a snippet of how to disable certificate checks on PowerShell 7 and above on Windows and Linux / Debian 11.Mon, 08 May 2023 08:37:34 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-on-linux-debian-11-exit-command-not-working-as-expected/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-on-linux-debian-11-exit-command-not-working-as-expected/On my Debian 11 VM, the 'exit' command in a PowerShell script does not work as expected. The script stops working, but the process does not exit either. Now I use this to exit…Sat, 06 May 2023 11:56:00 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-on-linux-debian-11-ctrlc-not-working/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-on-linux-debian-11-ctrlc-not-working/I just found out that on my Debian 11 VM in PowerShell the key combination Ctrl+C does not work. The script is not terminated by this, unlike expected. I added the following code…Wed, 03 May 2023 11:56:13 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/blank-empty-pages-when-accessing-a-modern-experience-page-of-sharepoint-server-subscription-edition/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/blank-empty-pages-when-accessing-a-modern-experience-page-of-sharepoint-server-subscription-edition/Resently I installed a new SharePoint Server Subscription Edition but in this case only with the latest security update (https://support.microsoft.com/en us/kb/5002191). When I…Wed, 20 Apr 2022 08:14:23 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-user-information-list-url-reminder/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-user-information-list-url-reminder/This is the link to the SharePoint User Information List: https://sharepoint.example.com / catalogs/users/simple.aspx The bold part must be replaced by the SharePoint site…Tue, 05 Apr 2022 18:21:04 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/microsoft-teams-app-open-developer-tools/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/microsoft-teams-app-open-developer-tools/As widely known, Microsoft Teams runs on desktop computers with Windows OS or Mac OSX or Linux. The "Teams" app is based on "Electron" (https://www.electronjs.org). "Electron"…Wed, 02 Mar 2022 16:17:01 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/asp-net-core-net-6-demo-authentication-project-using-local-casdoor-docker-container-on-windows-subsystem-for-linux/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/asp-net-core-net-6-demo-authentication-project-using-local-casdoor-docker-container-on-windows-subsystem-for-linux/I wanted to create a demo application with kind of real world authentication that I can easily adopt in projects. This was not so easy as I thought. 1st: I wanted an identity…Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:19:18 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/manager-attribute-not-updated-in-ad-import-for-profiles-on-sharepoint-server-on-premises/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/manager-attribute-not-updated-in-ad-import-for-profiles-on-sharepoint-server-on-premises/Today I could solve a wired problem. It belongs to User Profile "AD Import" on SharePoint Server 2019. The profile overview of a person stated two different information: At the…Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:45:00 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/upgrade-all-dotnet-tools-at-once-with-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/upgrade-all-dotnet-tools-at-once-with-powershell/Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:09:39 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/kenaflow-enterprise-business-automation-with-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/kenaflow-enterprise-business-automation-with-powershell/Almost exactly four years ago I started developing the software kenaflow . The project started as a workflow engine for SharePoint. Meanwhile the software can do a lot more, e.g.…Tue, 07 Sep 2021 15:52:27 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/access-denied-when-trying-to-save-a-web-as-template-in-sp-2019-on-premises/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/access-denied-when-trying-to-save-a-web-as-template-in-sp-2019-on-premises/My customer tries to save a sub web "as template" using " / layouts/15/savetmpl.aspx ". He gets an "Access Denied" ("This site has not been shared with you") page. It took me a…Fri, 23 Jul 2021 22:26:04 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sql-execution-in-powershell-write-server-messages-to-console/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sql-execution-in-powershell-write-server-messages-to-console/It has been a problem for me to work with SQL backup and restore for SharePoint with Powershell... Issuing the commands is no problem. A simple SQL Server connection is required.…Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:50:36 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/cleanup-iis-log-using-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/cleanup-iis-log-using-powershell/On every SharePoint or IIS server I need the following script: Short Version, e.g. for Windows Task Scheduler powershell command “get childitem path c:\inetpub\logs\logfiles…Thu, 01 Jul 2021 07:59:56 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/new-spconfigurationdatabase-error-given-key-was-not-present-in-the-directory/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/new-spconfigurationdatabase-error-given-key-was-not-present-in-the-directory/During configuration of a new SharePoint 2019 farm I got an error in PowerShell Cmdlet New SPConfigurationDatabase . The given key was not present in the directory. I found some…Wed, 23 Jun 2021 22:10:57 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/set-tls-version-in-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/set-tls-version-in-powershell/It has been described lots of times before. It's just for the records... This code sets the used TLS version for secure HTTP connections to version 1.2…Mon, 14 Jun 2021 09:15:23 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-self-signed-certificate-with-powershell-on-windows-server-2012-r2/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-self-signed-certificate-with-powershell-on-windows-server-2012-r2/A little bit outdated. I know. But customers not always have the latest server versions running. Today a customer asked me how to create a self signed SSL certificate with…Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:14:13 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-on-prem-search-service-error-access-denied/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-on-prem-search-service-error-access-denied/I got this error: Search Service Application: Crawl Log Error Breakdown <table <tbody <tr <td Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to…Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:11:57 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-error-metadata-backend-service-request-expectedfailure-metadata-backend-service-request-failed-in-a-authorized-access-exception-system-servicemodel-faultexception1system-servicemodel-e/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-error-metadata-backend-service-request-expectedfailure-metadata-backend-service-request-failed-in-a-authorized-access-exception-system-servicemodel-faultexception1system-servicemodel-e/I got the following error: Exception returned from back end service. System.ServiceModel.FaultException 1[System.ServiceModel.ExceptionDetail]: AccessDeniedEx:The current user has…Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:57:14 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-error-in-uls-and-windows-event-log-unknown-sql-exception-241-occurred-additional-error-information-from-sql-server-is-included-below/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-error-in-uls-and-windows-event-log-unknown-sql-exception-241-occurred-additional-error-information-from-sql-server-is-included-below/Today I did some SharePoint 2016 = 2019 migration tests for a customer. I set up the new farm weeks ago, but today I saw the following error for the first time in the SharePoint…Sat, 13 Mar 2021 18:05:16 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/set-url-for-new-tab-in-microsoft-edge/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/set-url-for-new-tab-in-microsoft-edge/In Microsoft Edge the default behaviour of "new tab" is it to open a customizable page with Microsoft Bing and other content. The content can be disabled but there is no way to…Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:06:43 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/fix-powershell-error-the-underlying-connection-was-closed-could-not-establish-trust-relationship-for-the-ssl-tls-secure-channel/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/fix-powershell-error-the-underlying-connection-was-closed-could-not-establish-trust-relationship-for-the-ssl-tls-secure-channel/Just as a reminder. When getting this error: ...just add this to your PowerShell script:Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:44:45 GMTPowerShellhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/auto-update-visual-studio-2019-2017-on-windows/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/auto-update-visual-studio-2019-2017-on-windows/I have some development machines with Visual Studio 2017 and/or 2019 installed. Too many to constantly install updates in. For a long time I was looking for a solution for this,…Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:32:06 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/original-ps2exe-migrated-from-ms-technet-gallery-to-github/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/original-ps2exe-migrated-from-ms-technet-gallery-to-github/This is more "for the record" than it makes real sense. But why not? For a few years "PS2EXE" was represented on Technet and has over 90.000 downloads to date. That is super…Wed, 11 Nov 2020 14:57:46 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-error-an-error-occurred-during-the-compilation-of-the-requested-file-or-one-of-its-dependencies/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-error-an-error-occurred-during-the-compilation-of-the-requested-file-or-one-of-its-dependencies/I have had this exception on SharePoint 2013 pages on several servers after they are running a for one or two days: "An error occurred during the compilation of the requested…Fri, 06 Jan 2017 10:48:39 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-error-in-products-configuration-wizard-after-update-to-sp1/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-error-in-products-configuration-wizard-after-update-to-sp1/Today I got an error on my development farm after I updated SP 2013 to SP1 level. I also removed Visual Studio 2012 from the box and installed Visual Studio 2013. In fact I did…Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:37:14 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/troubleshooting-cannot-access-managed-metadata-service-application-in-sharepoint-2013/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/troubleshooting-cannot-access-managed-metadata-service-application-in-sharepoint-2013/In the last couple of months I got several times the following error: The Managed Metadata Service Application was not accessible in the Central Administration. I checked all know…Thu, 22 May 2014 13:52:10 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/get-rid-of-orphaned-content-types-in-sharepoint-2013/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/get-rid-of-orphaned-content-types-in-sharepoint-2013/One of my customers has a SharePoint 2013 farm with content migrated from SharePoint 2010. In the past on SharePoint 2010 they have had the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting…Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:00:49 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/cross-site-scripting-with-sharepoint-2013-rest-calls/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/cross-site-scripting-with-sharepoint-2013-rest-calls/Today I had to figure out how to query a SharePoint 2013 REST service from another domain. It took a while to find the correct settings. ; ) There was no list on the internet so I…Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:00:58 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2013https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-snippet-store-login-information-secure-in-powershell-using-windows-security-api/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-snippet-store-login-information-secure-in-powershell-using-windows-security-api/Today I want to show you a small PowerShell snippet that I created for a webinar for AvePoint. It’s a webinar in German language about the DocAve module “Content Manager”. The…Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:00:51 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-people-picker-error-sorry-were-having-trouble-reaching-the-server/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-people-picker-error-sorry-were-having-trouble-reaching-the-server/I have had a strange error today in my dev lab environment. First I recognized that I could not select users from the People Picker: Sorry, we’re having trouble reaching the…Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:11:12 GMTSharePoint 2013https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-user-profile-sync-connection-for-sharepoint-2013-by-script-a-supported-approach/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-user-profile-sync-connection-for-sharepoint-2013-by-script-a-supported-approach/In my last post I wrote about a supported approach to create a user profile sync connection in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell and Internet Explorer automation. In the meanwhile…Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:00:10 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-user-profile-sync-connection-for-sharepoint-2010-by-script-a-supported-approach/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-user-profile-sync-connection-for-sharepoint-2010-by-script-a-supported-approach/Before we start… 1\. It’s not supported to create a User Profile Sync connection by script or code using the server object model. We will NOT do this here! 2\. The script in this…Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:00:33 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/de-mcmmcsmmca-abgekndigt-ende-einer-ra/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/de-mcmmcsmmca-abgekndigt-ende-einer-ra/Mein erster Blog Post auf deutsch… Wie Ihr sicher bereits gehört habt wurde der Microsoft Certified (Solutions) Master und Microsoft Certified Architect von Microsoft am Freitag…Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:00:57 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/set-profile-synchronization-account-rights-in-ad-using-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/set-profile-synchronization-account-rights-in-ad-using-powershell/This is just a short note on this topic. I could not find a script in the net. I’m not sure this is part of some SharePoint “config frameworks” like “AutoSPInstaller”. I do not…Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:38:34 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/client-side-encryption-of-list-item-fields-for-sharepoint-2013-demo-project/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/client-side-encryption-of-list-item-fields-for-sharepoint-2013-demo-project/Some days ago I found this JavaScript library for client side encryption using standard crypto algorithms. Everything done in the browser. Cool! Stanford Javascript Crypto…Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:00:06 GMTCodePlexSharePoint 2013https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-list-forms-new-small-framework-project-to-store-list-forms-in-sharepoint-library-part-1/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-list-forms-new-small-framework-project-to-store-list-forms-in-sharepoint-library-part-1/I spend some spare time in the last weeks and the last days (in Redmond before the MCSM: SharePoint rotation starts in a few hours ; ) ) for a new private development project. It…Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:00:56 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-infopath-cannot-open-the-following-form/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-infopath-cannot-open-the-following-form/Yesterday I had a problem on a new SharePoint 2013 farm that took me some hours to solve it. Problem: I was not able to customize forms (again) using InfoPath on lists after…Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:35:57 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/guest-blog-article-on-hey-scripting-guy-blog-weekend-scripter-run-c-code-from-within-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/guest-blog-article-on-hey-scripting-guy-blog-weekend-scripter-run-c-code-from-within-powershell/http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/03/30/weekend scripter run c code from within powershell.aspx Link to “C Script”: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/C…Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:00:55 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/guest-blog-article-on-microsoft-blog-hey-scripting-guy-learn-about-using-powershell-value-binding-by-property-name/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/guest-blog-article-on-microsoft-blog-hey-scripting-guy-learn-about-using-powershell-value-binding-by-property-name/http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2013/03/25/learn about using powershell value binding by property name.aspxMon, 25 Mar 2013 12:14:10 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/update-of-ps2exe-version-0-4-now-support-single-and-multi-thread-apartment-and-noconsole-mode/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/update-of-ps2exe-version-0-4-now-support-single-and-multi-thread-apartment-and-noconsole-mode/On Codeplex user redpark asked for “Single Thread Apartment” mode (http://ps2exe.codeplex.com/discussions/435946)… Here it is… Please see v0.4 on CodePlex:…Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:05:07 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/update-of-ps2exe-version-0-3-0-0-now-supports-powershell-3-0-and-2-0/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/update-of-ps2exe-version-0-3-0-0-now-supports-powershell-3-0-and-2-0/Some time ago I’ve written a little tool called “PS2EXE” that creates .EXE files from PowerShell script files. As mentioned in earlier posts this is no conversation of PS to EXE!…Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:52:49 GMTPowerShellPS2EXEPowerShellPS2EXEhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/pdf-upload-metadata-extractor-sample-sharepoint-2013-2010-project-on-codeplex/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/pdf-upload-metadata-extractor-sample-sharepoint-2013-2010-project-on-codeplex/When you upload MS Office documents to SharePoint document libraries their document titles are used in SharePoint to set the default Title column of list item of the uploaded…Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:00:28 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-design-packages-import-with-powershell-part-2-of-2/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-design-packages-import-with-powershell-part-2-of-2/Last Thursday I wrote about “Exporting SharePoint 2013 Design Packages with PowerShell”. Today I’d like to show you the import function. This functions can be used to handle with…Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:00:33 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2013PowerShellSharePoint 2013https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-design-packages-export-with-powershell-part-1-of-2/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2013-design-packages-export-with-powershell-part-1-of-2/Last night I search for “export import sharepoint 2013 design packages powershell”. No luck there. – So I created two functions for this purpose. It works nicely : ) The functions…Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:00:59 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2013SharePoint 2013PowerShellhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/gimmick-write-to-sharepoint-log-using-powershell-functions/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/gimmick-write-to-sharepoint-log-using-powershell-functions/In preparation for a deployment project I wrote some PowerShell functions to write messages to the SharePoint ULS. You can download the PowerShell script here:…Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:52:29 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-provider-hosted-high-trust-app-for-sharepoint-2013-short-guide/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-provider-hosted-high-trust-app-for-sharepoint-2013-short-guide/About this topic there are several guides. I can’t say that I have to add anything new ; ) But… as always… this blog is a kind of notebook for me. So I post this small guide. 1.…Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:13:38 GMTSharePoint 2013Visual Studio 2012SharePoint AppsSharePoint 2013SharePoint AppsVisual Studio 2012https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/short-note-about-error-while-creating-search-service-application-for-sharepoint-2013-by-powershell-value-cannot-be-null-parameter-name-indexlocation/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/short-note-about-error-while-creating-search-service-application-for-sharepoint-2013-by-powershell-value-cannot-be-null-parameter-name-indexlocation/Today I got an error while creating a Search Service Application for SharePoint 2013: PS C:\\ $SearchSA = New SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication –Name “Enterprise Search Service…Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:52:46 GMTPowerShellSearchSharePoint 2013PowerShellSharePoint 2013SharePoint SearchConfighttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-use-git-for-small-dev-projects-with-private-git-repositories-based-on-cloud-storage-providers-such-as-sugarsync-or-dropbox/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-use-git-for-small-dev-projects-with-private-git-repositories-based-on-cloud-storage-providers-such-as-sugarsync-or-dropbox/In some small dev projects in the last months I was looking for a source control system. I liked to use Microsoft’s Team Foundation Services. But I was and I am not able to use…Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:59:21 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sql-server-alias-management-with-powershell-and-wmi-update-for-sql-server-2012/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sql-server-alias-management-with-powershell-and-wmi-update-for-sql-server-2012/In 02/2011 I created a PowerShell script to set / get / remove SQL Server aliases: https://blog.kenaro.com/2011/02/09/enumerate add update and remove sql server aliases by using…Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:18:20 GMTSQL Serverhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-script-to-migrate-fba-users-from-sharepoint-2007-to-2010-including-fba-roles/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-script-to-migrate-fba-users-from-sharepoint-2007-to-2010-including-fba-roles/This days I did some migration work. For experimental purpose I configures my old MOSS 2007 demo machine to use ASP.NET SQL FBA including MySites and profiles for the FBA users.…Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:54:08 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-script-to-add-account-to-allow-logon-locally-privilege-on-local-security-policy/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-script-to-add-account-to-allow-logon-locally-privilege-on-local-security-policy/As you know the SharePoint Farm Account must have privileges to logon locally for getting “User Profile Service Application” to work. Today I created a PowerShell script that adds…Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:48:10 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/new-demo-project-released-sharepoint-web-change-log-an-alternate-notification-feature/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/new-demo-project-released-sharepoint-web-change-log-an-alternate-notification-feature/I created an alternated notification feature for SharePoint 2010. It’s a demo project for SharePoint 2010. I’ve done it for some practice in SharePoint development and just for…Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:44:06 GMTCodePlexSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/new-tool-to-manage-users-and-roles-for-asp-net-membership-provider-based-form-based-authentication-fba/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/new-tool-to-manage-users-and-roles-for-asp-net-membership-provider-based-form-based-authentication-fba/It’s a nightmare to create users for FBA, isn’t it? – There are several tools out there, but some does not work as expected oder you need to install .NET 4 on a server just to run…Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:31:48 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/hello-world/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/hello-world/Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:09:55 GMThttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/issue-starting-user-code-service-on-sharepoint-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/issue-starting-user-code-service-on-sharepoint-2010/Today I started the “User Code Service” of SharePoint 2010 to enable execution of Sandboxed Solutions. Before activation I’ve created a new domain account for the service (\ ) ,…Sun, 19 Aug 2012 07:48:46 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-script-spfolderimport-for-import-a-whole-file-system-folder-to-a-sharepoint-document-library-using-the-content-migration-api/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-script-spfolderimport-for-import-a-whole-file-system-folder-to-a-sharepoint-document-library-using-the-content-migration-api/The last days I’ve created a PowerShell script that enables you to import a whole file system folder into a SharePoint document library using the SharePoint Content Migration API.…Sun, 05 Aug 2012 21:06:01 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-during-farm-config-new-spconfigurationdatabase-failed-with-exception-the-process-does-not-passess-the-sesecuritypriviledge-priviledge-which-is-required-for-this-operation/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-during-farm-config-new-spconfigurationdatabase-failed-with-exception-the-process-does-not-passess-the-sesecuritypriviledge-priviledge-which-is-required-for-this-operation/Today I tried to configure a new SharePoint farm. I got this error: “The process does not passess the ‘SeSecurityPriviledge’ priviledge which is required for this operation.” –…Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:10:52 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-install-sharepoint-server-2010-language-pack-sp1/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-install-sharepoint-server-2010-language-pack-sp1/When you install SharePoint Server 2010 by using the official slipstreamed version that includes SP1 you may get an error while installing SP1 for several language packs. “The…Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:39:03 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/redirecting-to-new-url-with-iis/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/redirecting-to-new-url-with-iis/In IIS there is a trick for redirecting requests to a new URL including original path and query string. This trick worked on IIS 6. Today I tried this with IIS 7.5 on Windows…Tue, 15 May 2012 16:22:09 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/for-mcts-classroom-setup-tools-for-ms-learning-hyper-v-machines/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/for-mcts-classroom-setup-tools-for-ms-learning-hyper-v-machines/(Download link below!) If you set up a MS Learning Classroom with Hyper V and the images provided by MS at the MCT download page you need to deploy the VHD files (and the other VM…Tue, 15 May 2012 12:23:42 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-wsp-cab-file-on-sharepoint-server-using-sharepoint-built-in-functionality/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-wsp-cab-file-on-sharepoint-server-using-sharepoint-built-in-functionality/SharePoint Server 2010 and Foundation too has a namespace “Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.Cab”. In this namespace there are all functions you need to create CAB=WSP files. I have…Tue, 01 May 2012 09:00:15 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/ps2exe-v0-2-0-0-improvements-platform-switch-x64-or-x86-or-anycpu-new-exe-config-file-for-supported-runtime/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/ps2exe-v0-2-0-0-improvements-platform-switch-x64-or-x86-or-anycpu-new-exe-config-file-for-supported-runtime/(Original article: https://blog.kenaro.com/2011/06/21/ps2exe tool for converting powershell scripts to standalone exe files/) I have implemented some new switches for PS2EXE: \…Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:29:44 GMTPS2EXEhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-in-crawl-log-the-sharepoint-item-being-crawled-returned-an-error-when-attempting-to-download-the-item/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-in-crawl-log-the-sharepoint-item-being-crawled-returned-an-error-when-attempting-to-download-the-item/Another error in the crawl log: Using Fiddler I figured out that the pages report an “incompatible browser” error if the SharePoint crawler opens that pages. It seems that the…Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:03:23 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-in-crawl-log-the-server-is-unavailable-and-could-not-be-accessed-the-server-is-probably-disconnected-from-the-network-sharepoint-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-in-crawl-log-the-server-is-unavailable-and-could-not-be-accessed-the-server-is-probably-disconnected-from-the-network-sharepoint-2010/I got this error messages a thousand times: Solution 1: I added the root certification authority certificates and the intermediate certification authority certificates of all SSL…Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:10:57 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/demo-generating-sandboxed-solutions-through-code-for-sharepoint-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/demo-generating-sandboxed-solutions-through-code-for-sharepoint-2010/Some weeks ago I startet a new private dev project. To reach one of the goals of the project I thought about the possibility to create Sandboxed Solutions at runtime. I’ve…Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:30:10 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/minify-javascript-and-powershell-scripts-by-using-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/minify-javascript-and-powershell-scripts-by-using-powershell/There are several tools out there to minify JavaScript files. – You don’t know “minification”? Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minification\ (programming)) Common tools…Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:39:06 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkaround-for-common-taxonomypicker-ascx-error-in-windows-event-log-sharepoint-feature-that-renames-the-file/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkaround-for-common-taxonomypicker-ascx-error-in-windows-event-log-sharepoint-feature-that-renames-the-file/There is a common error in SharePoint 2010: On almost every (web frontend) server you can find this error in the Windows Event Log “Application”: Event Type: Error Event Source:…Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:12 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/btw-a-little-trick-for-development-in-visual-studio-2010-start-powershell-scripts-that-need-to-run-in-an-x64-context-by-double-click-from-solution-explorer/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/btw-a-little-trick-for-development-in-visual-studio-2010-start-powershell-scripts-that-need-to-run-in-an-x64-context-by-double-click-from-solution-explorer/For development and some related tasks I use PowerShell, of course. – I store the PowerShell scripts in my projects as part of them. They are part of the source code and they are…Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:51:05 GMTPowerShellVisual Studio 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkaround-for-problems-accessing-a-diffrent-web-by-linq-to-sharepoint-inside-server-code/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkaround-for-problems-accessing-a-diffrent-web-by-linq-to-sharepoint-inside-server-code/At the weekend I tried to access a diffrent SharePoint Web (SPWeb) from inside server code (ASPX application page). Before I created interface classes to the “diffrent SharePoint…Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:00:46 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-simple-wcf-web-service-for-sharepoint-2010-with-visual-studio-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-simple-wcf-web-service-for-sharepoint-2010-with-visual-studio-2010/In this “Walkthrough” I’d like to show you how to create a simple WCF Web Service for SharePoint 2010. This Web Service will provide two methods: Ping = Just as test.…Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:00:33 GMTSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/migration-issue-error-in-upgrade-log-exception-thrown-while-applying-the-global-template-to-the-web-with-url-unknown-id-from-site-with-url-unknown-id/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/migration-issue-error-in-upgrade-log-exception-thrown-while-applying-the-global-template-to-the-web-with-url-unknown-id-from-site-with-url-unknown-id/In my curent migration project I got this error in an Content Database upgrade log on the new SharePoint 2010 farm: Template MPS 0: Exception thrown while applying the global…Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:57 GMTMigrationSharePoint 2010MigrationSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/exclude-asset-library-from-search-results-by-modifying-search-scopes/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/exclude-asset-library-from-search-results-by-modifying-search-scopes/It’s possible to exclude SharePoint Lists from search results by excluding their types in the search scope definition. Therefore you need to define an search scope rule based on a…Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:30:10 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-script-for-recreating-the-server-cache-related-to-error-in-windows-event-log-event-id-6482-application-server-administration-job-failed-for-service-instance-microsoft-office-server-searc/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-script-for-recreating-the-server-cache-related-to-error-in-windows-event-log-event-id-6482-application-server-administration-job-failed-for-service-instance-microsoft-office-server-searc/Today I’ve had the error: Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (150CA1DD 02E3 47C0…Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:01:40 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/strange-error-on-web-frontend-server-of-moss-2007-farm-stsadm-operation-enumallwebs-with-includewebparts-options-results-in-lots-of-missing-webparts/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/strange-error-on-web-frontend-server-of-moss-2007-farm-stsadm-operation-enumallwebs-with-includewebparts-options-results-in-lots-of-missing-webparts/During a migration project from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 we got a strange error that took some hours to resolve. For an automated migration tasks I tried to create a…Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:22:05 GMTSharePoint 2007 (MOSS)https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/deploying-fantastic-fourty-templates-of-moss-2007-on-sharepoint-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/deploying-fantastic-fourty-templates-of-moss-2007-on-sharepoint-2010/There are the “Fantastic Fourty” templates you all now… They are create for MOSS 2007 and there are no update available for SharePoint 2010… Because of a migration of MOSS 2007 to…Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:07:29 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-tool-to-enumerate-the-content-type-usage-in-sharepoint-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-tool-to-enumerate-the-content-type-usage-in-sharepoint-2010/A customer of mine has the problem that he wants to remove a Web Content Type but SharePoint says the content type is still in use. Therefore I created a tool for enumerating all…Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:39:06 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/spwebpsconsole-web-based-powershell-console-for-sharepoint-a-new-project-on-codeplex/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/spwebpsconsole-web-based-powershell-console-for-sharepoint-a-new-project-on-codeplex/This project is a stand alone clone of my project „Web based PowerShell Console” released on 2011 09 02 on Codeplex and in this blog article:…Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:29:48 GMTCodePlexPowerShellSharePoint 2010CodeplexPowerShellSharePoint 2010SPWebPSConsoleWebPSConsolehttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/access-site-collection-settings-of-a-sharepoint-online-site/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/access-site-collection-settings-of-a-sharepoint-online-site/On a SharePoint Online site there is no “official” link to the Site Collection Administration page. But you can access them by typing the URL in the browser: http://<your.domain…Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:29:14 GMTOffice 365SharePoint OnlineOffice 365SharePoint Onlinehttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/webpsconsole-web-based-powershell-console-a-new-project-on-codeplex/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/webpsconsole-web-based-powershell-console-a-new-project-on-codeplex/Starting at 12th of September 2011 I'll be freelancer. – In August I had some vacation days to spend. – So I created a new project for me – and for you. I call it "Web based…Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:43:20 GMTCodePlexPowerShellCodeplexPowerShellWebPSConsolehttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/truncate-shrink-log-files-of-databases-in-sql-server-2008-r2/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/truncate-shrink-log-files-of-databases-in-sql-server-2008-r2/Today I got this error while trying to shrink my SharePoint 2010 databases on my dev machine: ‘TRUNCATE\ ONLY’ is not a recognized BACKUP option. I searched for the error and…Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:31:41 GMTSQL ServerShrinkSQLServer2008R2truncatehttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/longpathsupport-operate-with-files-and-directories-with-long-paths-in-net-codeplex-project/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/longpathsupport-operate-with-files-and-directories-with-long-paths-in-net-codeplex-project/In my project RoboPowerCopy (http://robopowercopy.codeplex.com) I’ve implemented a basic set of classes and methods for use with files and directories with long paths. NTFS…Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:49:04 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/clean-up-your-powershell-environment-by-tracking-variable-use-new-guest-blog-article-on-hey-scripting-guy/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/clean-up-your-powershell-environment-by-tracking-variable-use-new-guest-blog-article-on-hey-scripting-guy/Today my second guest blog article on “Hey, Scripting Guy!” was published: http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/08/21/clean up your powershell environment by…Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:17:30 GMTPersonalPowerShellhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-deploy-clickonce-application-as-sharepoint-2010-solution-package/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-deploy-clickonce-application-as-sharepoint-2010-solution-package/In some projects there was a need to run code on the client machine for interaction with SharePoint. If’ve realized this kind of applications as “ClickOnce” apps. It’s possible to…Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:07:55 GMTSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-powershell-timer-jobs-run-powershell-scripts-in-sharepoint-timer-service-context/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-powershell-timer-jobs-run-powershell-scripts-in-sharepoint-timer-service-context/I’ve created a new project that combines my two primary technical passions: SharePoint 2010 and PowerShell. The project “SharePoint PowerShell Timer Jobs” lets you create, modify…Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:07:02 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-warm-up-now-with-timeout/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-warm-up-now-with-timeout/In January 2011 I published a SharePoint Warm Up script based on PowerShell. Some days ago blog reader Tamas published an comment: https://blog.kenaro.com/2011/01/27/sharepoint…Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:43:46 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/me-on-hey-scripting-guy-blog/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/me-on-hey-scripting-guy-blog/Let me say this in PowerShell language : ) Here it is: Learn About Two CodePlex Projects: PS2EXE and RoboPowerCopy…Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:28:44 GMTPersonalPowerShellhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/announcement-powergui-3-0-released/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/announcement-powergui-3-0-released/The folks of Quest released PowerGUI 3.0 ! http://powergui.org It's a famous tool for PowerShell development. Useful for complex scripts like "RoboPowerCopy" : ) On live server…Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:12:45 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/869/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/869/Yesterday I changed the Access mode of a SharePoint Web Application to "Only SSL". On the Web Application are some browser enabled InfoPath forms. Some of them consume a…Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:12:23 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/robopowercopy-on-powerscripting-podcast/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/robopowercopy-on-powerscripting-podcast/There is a short review of my “RoboPowerCopy” tool on the PowerScripting blog: http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/episode 151 jeremy kelly announces script explorer/…Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:40:04 GMTPowerShellRoboPowerCopyhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthroughsolution-for-workflow-error-in-sharepoint-2010-state-machine-workflow-event-onworkflowactivated-on-interface-type-microsoft-sharepoint-workflow-isharepointservice/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthroughsolution-for-workflow-error-in-sharepoint-2010-state-machine-workflow-event-onworkflowactivated-on-interface-type-microsoft-sharepoint-workflow-isharepointservice/Today I got the following error and did not find a clear description and solution for it: Error message: “Event "OnWorkflowActivated" on interface type…Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:58:09 GMTSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010Workflowhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-add-list-event-receiver-dynamically-at-runtime-in-sharepoint-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-add-list-event-receiver-dynamically-at-runtime-in-sharepoint-2010/This time a tiny neat walkthrough of how to add an Event Receiver at runtime in SharePoint 2010. Let’s say you have a SharePoint site that your colleagues already use. In this…Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:34:40 GMTSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010SharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010Walkthroughhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/ps2exe-tool-for-converting-powershell-scripts-to-standalone-exe-files/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/ps2exe-tool-for-converting-powershell-scripts-to-standalone-exe-files/In the last days I created the tool “PS2EXE”. It is able to “convert” PowerShell scripts to “standalone” EXE files. Project site here: http://ps2exe.codeplex.com – It’s ALPHA in…Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:16:51 GMTPowerShellPowerShellhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/robopowercopy-a-powershell-based-robocopy-clone-v0-1-0/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/robopowercopy-a-powershell-based-robocopy-clone-v0-1-0/UPDATE 2021 07 23: Because of the Codeplex shutdown I have archived the project here: https://github.com/ikarstein/robopowercopy Today I want to announce my latest development…Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:07:06 GMTPowerShellRoboPowerCopyhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/problem-and-workaround-organization-browser-silverlight-web-part-is-empty-on-other-site-than-mysite/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/problem-and-workaround-organization-browser-silverlight-web-part-is-empty-on-other-site-than-mysite/At first: This is a common problem. Using the "Organization Browser" Web Part on another page than on the MySite host web application results in an empty view. This means, the…Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:10:30 GMTSharePoint 2010SharePoint Designer 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-publishing-an-infopath-2010-form-to-sharepoint-the-following-url-is-not-valid/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-publishing-an-infopath-2010-form-to-sharepoint-the-following-url-is-not-valid/Today I got this error: I tried to deploy a simple form to the SharePoint location http://sharepoint.local. This location is a root site collection!!! I got the error: The…Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:37:49 GMTInfoPathSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-deploy-conditional-formatting-in-a-sharepoint-2010-list-definition-using-visual-studio-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-deploy-conditional-formatting-in-a-sharepoint-2010-list-definition-using-visual-studio-2010/This time it’s not a walkthrough. Only a description of what you have to do. – It’s “experimental”!!! The need is to deploy a conditional formatting in a list definition that was…Mon, 09 May 2011 22:24:49 GMTSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-sharepoint-2010-workflow-association-form-and-initiation-form-in-visual-studio-2010-by-using-application-pages-part-2-of-2/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-sharepoint-2010-workflow-association-form-and-initiation-form-in-visual-studio-2010-by-using-application-pages-part-2-of-2/This is Part 2 of 2 that describes the steps 18 to 27 . You will find Part 1 here: https://blog.kenaro.com/2011/04/24/walkthrough create sharepoint 2010 workflow association form…Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:32:18 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-sharepoint-2010-workflow-association-form-and-initiation-form-in-visual-studio-2010-by-using-application-pages-part-1-of-2/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-sharepoint-2010-workflow-association-form-and-initiation-form-in-visual-studio-2010-by-using-application-pages-part-1-of-2/Because of some requests by my blog readers I’d like to show you how to create Workflow Association and Initiation (“Instantiation”) forms in Visual Studio 2010 for use with a…Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:27:18 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-creating-a-simple-sequential-workflow-with-a-custom-task-form-in-sharepoint-2010-using-visual-studio-2010-part-3-of-21/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-creating-a-simple-sequential-workflow-with-a-custom-task-form-in-sharepoint-2010-using-visual-studio-2010-part-3-of-21/This article belongs to these previous posts: Part 1 Part 2 You should read this article if you have problems to deploy my sample project on Codeplex…Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:33:29 GMTCodePlexSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010WorkflowCodeplexSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010WalkthroughWorkflowhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-deploying-a-infopath-2010-list-form-in-a-visual-studio-2010-solution-package/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-deploying-a-infopath-2010-list-form-in-a-visual-studio-2010-solution-package/This is not easy. It took me some days. – Now it works! Here I’ll show you how to create a List Form for a SharePoint List using InfoPath 2010. Therefore you need SharePoint 2010…Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:15:00 GMTInfoPathSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010InfoPath 2010SharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-creating-a-simple-sequential-workflow-with-a-custom-task-form-in-sharepoint-2010-using-visual-studio-2010-part-1-of-2/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-creating-a-simple-sequential-workflow-with-a-custom-task-form-in-sharepoint-2010-using-visual-studio-2010-part-1-of-2/In this walkthrough I want to show you how to create a Sequential Workflow with Visual Studio 2010 for use in SharePoint 2010. – I will show how to create a custom Task Form for…Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:10:52 GMTCodePlexSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010WorkflowSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010WalkthroughWorkflowhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-creating-a-simple-sequential-workflow-with-a-custom-task-form-in-sharepoint-2010-using-visual-studio-2010-part-2-of-2/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-creating-a-simple-sequential-workflow-with-a-custom-task-form-in-sharepoint-2010-using-visual-studio-2010-part-2-of-2/In this walkthrough I want to show you how to create a Sequential Workflow with Visual Studio 2010 for use in SharePoint 2010. – I will show how to create a custom Task Form for…Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:02:30 GMTSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010WorkflowSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010WalkthroughWorkflowhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-creating-a-enterprise-wiki-sub-site-in-sharepoint-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-creating-a-enterprise-wiki-sub-site-in-sharepoint-2010/A customer of mine had a problem in a it’s SharePoint 2010 farm. An error occurred while creating a sub site of type Enterprise Wiki. The user that tried to create the sub site…Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:16:41 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/kerberos-error-in-event-log-on-every-sharepoint-2010-farm-server/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/kerberos-error-in-event-log-on-every-sharepoint-2010-farm-server/I had an error in the event log on every SharePoint 2010 farm server: This happens after migration of the old MOSS 2007 farm to SharePoint 2010. – On the new farm I used new…Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:03:00 GMTSharePoint 2010Kerberoshttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/additional-ribbon-sample-custom-ribbon-tab-generated-by-a-delegate-control-that-lists-all-associated-list-workflows-and-allow-to-start-a-workflow-on-a-selected-list-item-part-3/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/additional-ribbon-sample-custom-ribbon-tab-generated-by-a-delegate-control-that-lists-all-associated-list-workflows-and-allow-to-start-a-workflow-on-a-selected-list-item-part-3/In the last weeks I’ve extended the sample project that I’ve created for “Ribbon Customization”. You find the project source code on Codeplex:…Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:47:30 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-a-simple-bcs-connection-with-sharepoint-designer-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-a-simple-bcs-connection-with-sharepoint-designer-2010/First: You need a SharePoint 2010 platform. You can use Foundation because BCS = Business Connectivity Services former BDC = Business Data Catalog in SharePoint 2007 – included in…Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:26:14 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-how-to-move-or-copy-a-sharepoint-designer-2010-list-workflow-to-another-list-on-the-same-site-or-another-site/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-how-to-move-or-copy-a-sharepoint-designer-2010-list-workflow-to-another-list-on-the-same-site-or-another-site/I had to develop a Holiday Approval Workflow with SharePoint Designer 2010. – I used a “List Workflow”. – Bad mistake! – It’s not possible to copy this kind of workflow to another…Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:06:09 GMTSharePoint 2010SharePoint Designer 2010Workflowhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/enumerate-add-update-and-remove-sql-server-aliases-by-using-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/enumerate-add-update-and-remove-sql-server-aliases-by-using-powershell/I’ve created a PowerShell script for adding, updating, enumerating und removing SQL Server aliases. – You can use the script to create/remove/enumerate both 32bit und 64bit…Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:26:13 GMTPowerShellSQL Serverhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-warm-up-with-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-warm-up-with-powershell/Every SharePoint farm needs a warm up After giving the IIS 7.5 Application Warmup a chance… I had to do it in another way… I created a warmup script in PowerShell. Here it is……Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:20:40 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/demo-project-excel-export-feature-for-sharepoint-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/demo-project-excel-export-feature-for-sharepoint-2010/I’ve uploaded another private demo project. It was planned as part of an SharePoint solution I liked to create but I cannot finalize this project. So I publish this project as…Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:07:38 GMTCodePlexSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-custom-sharepoint-2010-list-form-for-deployment-in-a-visual-studio-2010-project-part-2/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-custom-sharepoint-2010-list-form-for-deployment-in-a-visual-studio-2010-project-part-2/This is part 2 of my demo project about “How to create a custom list form…” – See this post for part one: https://blog.kenaro.com/2010/12/29/walkthrough create custom sharepoint…Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:25:23 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-executing-the-sharepoint-2010-powershell-cmdlet-mount-spcontentdatabase-exception-of-type-microsoft-sharepoint-upgrade-spupgradeexception-was-thrown/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-executing-the-sharepoint-2010-powershell-cmdlet-mount-spcontentdatabase-exception-of-type-microsoft-sharepoint-upgrade-spupgradeexception-was-thrown/Have a look into the SQL Server Management Studio. – The content database is read only. That’s the problemSun, 23 Jan 2011 00:31:44 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2010-help-doesnt-work-after-migration/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2010-help-doesnt-work-after-migration/I had to migrate a MOSS 2007 farm to SharePoint 2010. – After migration the SharePoint Help did not work. (It’s the button upper right on a SharePoint site.) A popup window…Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:35:59 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/missing-view-in-browser-and-edit-in-browser-in-the-context-menu-of-excel-files-in-a-sharepoint-2010-document-library/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/missing-view-in-browser-and-edit-in-browser-in-the-context-menu-of-excel-files-in-a-sharepoint-2010-document-library/You have installed the Office Web Apps on your SharePoint 2010 server. Now you are missing the menu entries “View in Browser” and “Edit in Browser”. You create a new Excel file in…Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:27:45 GMTOffice Web AppsSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-connecting-to-a-sharepoint-2010-web-site-in-sharepoint-designer-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-connecting-to-a-sharepoint-2010-web-site-in-sharepoint-designer-2010/Today I got this error: (“The server could not complete your request. For more specific information, click the Details button.”) I clicked the “Details” button as commanded.…Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:28:49 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/the-definitive-guide-of-how-to-configure-the-sharepoint-2010-user-profile-service-application/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/the-definitive-guide-of-how-to-configure-the-sharepoint-2010-user-profile-service-application/I took me hours and hours to get to User Profile Service Application working. These are the steps I’ve done in some scenarios. Especial to migrate an SharePoint 2007 profile…Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:12:57 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2010SharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/another-error-opening-a-document-in-a-office-web-app-of-sharepoint-2010-powerpoint-web-app-encountered-an-error-please-try-again/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/another-error-opening-a-document-in-a-office-web-app-of-sharepoint-2010-powerpoint-web-app-encountered-an-error-please-try-again/… on the SharePoint 2010 with german system language of my customer the message text was “Fehler bei PowerPoint Web App. Wiederholen Sie den Vorgang.” In the SharePoint log I…Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:14:54 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/failed-to-open-a-document-with-a-office-web-app-in-sharepoint-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/failed-to-open-a-document-with-a-office-web-app-in-sharepoint-2010/Today I got this error while opening a Word document stored in a SharePoint library. This document should be opened in the Word Web App. – IT WAS A DOCUMENT IN A MIGRATED CONTENT…Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:02:00 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sample-visual-studio-2010-project-for-creating-a-custom-sharepoint-2010-ribbon-tab-on-runtime/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sample-visual-studio-2010-project-for-creating-a-custom-sharepoint-2010-ribbon-tab-on-runtime/The related articles on my blog are: Part 1: How To Activate SharePoint Ribbon Tab by JavaScript Code Part 2: Sample Visual Studio 2010 project for creating a custom SharePoint…Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:19:03 GMTCodePlexSharePoint 2010Visual Studio 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-upload-user-profile-pictures-in-sharepoint-2010-using-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-upload-user-profile-pictures-in-sharepoint-2010-using-powershell/I’ve created a script for uploading user pictures to the SharePoint 2010 User Profile system. For me it worked very well. But: Use it at your own risk! Here is the script:Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:07:00 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-have-a-look-behind-the-data-source-of-the-xsltlistviewwebpart-of-sharepoint-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-have-a-look-behind-the-data-source-of-the-xsltlistviewwebpart-of-sharepoint-2010/I want to create a custom field type in a SharePoint 2010 development project (which I want to publish as as “walkthrough” on this blog ) Therefore I need to inspect the source…Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:46:21 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-custom-sharepoint-2010-list-form-for-deployment-in-a-visual-studio-2010-project/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-custom-sharepoint-2010-list-form-for-deployment-in-a-visual-studio-2010-project/(This is part 1 of 2. See link below.) Today I want to show you how to create a custom list form for deployment within a custom list template developed in Visual Studio 2010.…Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:05:21 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/codeplex-project-uploaded-sharepoint-2010-conditional-lookup-control/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/codeplex-project-uploaded-sharepoint-2010-conditional-lookup-control/I’ve created a custom control for SharePoint 2010. This control let you connect two lookup fields so that the second lookup field contains only a subset of all values depending on…Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:43:19 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/read-and-write-user-profile-properties-of-sharepoint-2010-user-profile-service-application-with-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/read-and-write-user-profile-properties-of-sharepoint-2010-user-profile-service-application-with-powershell/I needed to change some properties of user profiles of my SharePoint 2010 farm. Of cource I wanted to do this with PowerShell! Before you can execute the following script, be sure…Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:51:44 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-tool-for-visual-studio-2010-to-extract-the-full-qualified-public-assemby-name-with-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/create-tool-for-visual-studio-2010-to-extract-the-full-qualified-public-assemby-name-with-powershell/I created a simple tool extension for Visual Studio for extracting the full qualified name of an .NET assembly. Like this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en us/library/ee539398.aspx…Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:27:51 GMTPowerShellVisual Studio 2010PowerShellVisual Studio 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-form-with-infopath-and-use-it-in-a-sharepoint-2010-form-library/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/walkthrough-create-form-with-infopath-and-use-it-in-a-sharepoint-2010-form-library/In this walkthrough I want to show you the steps for creating a InfoPath form and use it with InfoPath Forms Services of SharePoint 2010. 1\. First I downloaded a downloadable…Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:13:11 GMTInfoPathSharePoint 2010SharePoint 2010InfoPathhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-enabling-session-state-service-on-sharepoint-2010/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-enabling-session-state-service-on-sharepoint-2010/There are some mysterios errors on my SharePoint farm. After reading tons of log files I found some hints to problems with the “Session State Service” of SharePoint 2010. I found…Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:30:16 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2010PowerShellSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/enumerate-sharepoint-2010-database-in-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/enumerate-sharepoint-2010-database-in-powershell/“Is there a way to enumerate all SharePoint 2010 databases in PowerShell like the page /\ admin/DatabaseStatus.aspx" /\ admin/DatabaseStatus.aspx" http://<centra\ administration…Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:36:06 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2010PowerShellSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-create-an-instance-of-an-generic-class-in-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-create-an-instance-of-an-generic-class-in-powershell/Sometimes you may need to create instances of generic classes in PowerShell. Like this (in C ): There is a generic class used in the code above: System.Collection.Generic.List. If…Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:14:43 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-determine-current-powershell-session-is-x86-or-x64/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-determine-current-powershell-session-is-x86-or-x64/For the execution of SharePoint PowerShell scripts I need to check the execution environment of my PowerShell session to be sure that PowerShell runs as x64 application. This was…Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:22:30 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/forefront-protection-2010-for-sharepointerror-the-sharepoint-service-is-running-but-the-forefront-vsapi-library-is-not-registered/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/forefront-protection-2010-for-sharepointerror-the-sharepoint-service-is-running-but-the-forefront-vsapi-library-is-not-registered/I got this error in the config tool of Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint: “The SharePoint service is running but the Forefront VSAPI Library is not registered” Here is what…Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:00:13 GMTForefront Protection 2010 for SharePointSharePoint 2010Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePointSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-set-the-sharepoint-2010-enterprise-search-service-application-default-content-access-account-by-using-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-set-the-sharepoint-2010-enterprise-search-service-application-default-content-access-account-by-using-powershell/If you want to set the SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search Service Application "Default Content Access Account" by using PowerShell you can use this script: $searchapp \= Get…Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:32:00 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2010PowerShellSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-set-the-identity-of-a-sharepoint-windows-service-e-g-sharepoint-server-search/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-set-the-identity-of-a-sharepoint-windows-service-e-g-sharepoint-server-search/I have had the problem to set the SharePoint Sevice Account of "SharePoint Server Search" to a special user account during a automatic setup. In other words: I want to automate…Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:24:13 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-trying-to-connect-to-a-published-service-application-in-sharepoint-2010-unable-to-connect-to-the-specified-address-verify-the-url-you-entered-and-contact-the-service-administrator/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/error-while-trying-to-connect-to-a-published-service-application-in-sharepoint-2010-unable-to-connect-to-the-specified-address-verify-the-url-you-entered-and-contact-the-service-administrator/When you receive this error …and you have done the exchange of farm certificates than you forgot this step: (Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en us/library/ff700211.aspx) See…Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:13:23 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-embedd-compressed-scripts-in-other-powershell-scripts/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-embedd-compressed-scripts-in-other-powershell-scripts/For a current project I want to create a “master script” that contains another compressed PowerShell script. This compressed script contains some informations server names,…Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:41:55 GMTPowerShellPowerShellhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/ocsetup-and-dism-component-names/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/ocsetup-and-dism-component-names/If you want to install windows features by script you have to use one of the tool OCSETUP oder DISM. E.g. start /w ocsetup <component name or dism /online /enable…Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:07:40 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/passphrase-error-while-creating-a-new-sharepoint-2010-farm-with-powershell-cmdlet-new-spconfigurationdatabase/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/passphrase-error-while-creating-a-new-sharepoint-2010-farm-with-powershell-cmdlet-new-spconfigurationdatabase/I tried to create a new SharePoint Server 2010 farm by using PowerShell cmdlet “New SPConfigurationDatabase” in one of the first steps. I got this error: New…Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:52:25 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-cast-object-type/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/powershell-cast-object-type/If you load an CSV file with import csv you will end up with an object of type System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject . It’s an array. In such a case I liked to use such an…Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:23:53 GMTPowerShellhttps://blog.kenaro.com/blog/project-server-2010-error-message-could-not-retrieve-enterprise-global-template-please-contact-your-administrator/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/project-server-2010-error-message-could-not-retrieve-enterprise-global-template-please-contact-your-administrator/After renaming my SharePoint 2010 from an old to a new URL I could not longer access any project from this server. The error message looked like this: “Could not retrieve…Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:00:38 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/filenotfoundexception-while-developing-an-external-sharepoint-application/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/filenotfoundexception-while-developing-an-external-sharepoint-application/If you develop a SharePoint Application with Visual Studio 2010, e.g. a Console Aplication, you may get an FileNotFoundException. For example in this code (program.cs): I’ve maked…Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:39:41 GMTSharePoint 2010SharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/activate-claim-based-authentication-afterwards-with-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/activate-claim-based-authentication-afterwards-with-powershell/You can active Claim Based Authentication for a SharePoint Web App afterwards if you missed that at creation time. Use this PowerShell script:Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:49:38 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2010PowerShellSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/enable-collectsprequestallocationcallstacks-with-powershell/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/enable-collectsprequestallocationcallstacks-with-powershell/I got this message in the ULS log: The following PowerShell script will do that for me – and you : )Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:52:47 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/add-web-config-modification-with-powershell-spwebconfigmodification/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/add-web-config-modification-with-powershell-spwebconfigmodification/Here is a script I used to add some web.config modifications with PowerShell. In this case I want to add a custom authentication provider. The following script I used for setup…Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:40:46 GMTPersonalSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/taxonomypicker-failed-to-load-error-in-event-viewer/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/taxonomypicker-failed-to-load-error-in-event-viewer/After updating the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Server of our company to SharePoint Server 2010 I got this error in the Event Viewer: I could solve this error by re enabling the…Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:12:17 GMTPowerShellSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-activate-sharepoint-ribbon-tab-by-javascript-code/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/how-to-activate-sharepoint-ribbon-tab-by-javascript-code/In the last weeks I’ve extended the sample project that I’ve created for “Ribbon Customization”. You find the project source code on Codeplex:…Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:49:48 GMTSharePoint 2010SharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2010-application-page-code-behind-throws-exception-trying-to-use-an-spweb-object-that-has-been-closed-or-disposed-and-is-no-longer-valid/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/sharepoint-2010-application-page-code-behind-throws-exception-trying-to-use-an-spweb-object-that-has-been-closed-or-disposed-and-is-no-longer-valid/This was the situation: I have a SharePoint Foundation 2010 project in VS2010. There I deploy some SharePoint lists with custom views an custom form pages. In one case I wanted to…Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:36:28 GMTSharePoint 2010https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/thats-me/https://blog.kenaro.com/blog/thats-me/That's me.Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:07:44 GMTPersonal