After configuring Personal sites, in SharePoint 2013, I learned the Organization Chart was not being displayed in the About Me section. After some investigation, I learned the Organization Chart in your own personal site is hidden intentionally. Microsoft indicated they did this to improve the page load performance. When you visit other individuals personal site, …
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I was asked today how to recover a SharePoint 2010 Passphrase. Unfortunately, there is no way to recover a Passphrase in SharePoint 2010. However, there is a very simple way to change it using PowerShell. Use the following PowerShell script to change your farm Passphrase. Before running this on your server, you will need machine-level …
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Niklas Goude and Mattias Karlsson have written a white paper titled “Using Windows PowerShell to Automate Your SharePoint 2010 Installation“. This white paper is available on the Secrets of SharePoint site. If you are interested in this topic, I recommend reading the white paper and their accompanying book “PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators“. White …
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If you have ever followed any of my blog posts, seen me at any conferences speaking or worked with me, you know I am a huge fan of Mindjet’s MindManager product as a planning, design, architecture, project management and communications tool. Its simply an amazing product. If you haven’t ever used MindManager from Mindjet, I highly recommend …
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I went through a whirlwind learning experience with regards to SharePoint 2010 AAM’s, DNS and Proxy configuration at a customer’s site today. Thought I would share my findings and some simple resolutions to problems I encountered. In a nut-shell, we have a Web Front-end (WFE) server named sharepointvm. Up to today, we have been performing …
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My friends at LightningTools have a tool that can help you understand what accounts are used by who! Take a look at this post. Tweet