SharePoint 2010 Passphrase Recovery

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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Using Windows PowerShell to Automate Your SharePoint 2010 Installation

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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