Permission management in SharePoint is always a complex task, especially in large environments. Granting permissions in SharePoint becomes cumbersome when you are trying to clone an existing user’s access rights. Consider this scenario: You have an existing user in a department granted access to various SharePoint web applications, sites, lists, [...]
Quick fix: $farm=get-spfarm $farm.properties.disableintranetcalls=$false $farm.properties.disableintranetcallsfromapps=$false $farm.Update() [...]
Sometimes when deploying a feature or solution in Sharepoint 2010, either via Central Admin or Powershell script the deployment gets stuck on a “Deploying” state. Generally this is very hard to troubleshoot as it does not generate any errors in the event log or ULS. Restarting IIS or even the [...]
The User Profile Service Application enables you to configure a connection to your Active Directory infrastructure and subsequently configure properties that need to be synchronized from AD to your user profile database. I my case we had a specific need to synchronize the “DepartmentNumber” field in AD to a custom user profile field called [...]
