SQL Maintenance Plan SharePoint 2010 databases To maintain good overall databases performance of the SharePoint 2010 databases I use the following SQL maintenance plan. This plan consist of two main parts: – The configuration of each separate databases and database properties settings – The automated maintenance plan, to perform database maintenance task once a week. … Continued
PowerShell error: The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered.
When you run SharePoint management powershell on your SharePoint 2010 server you get the following error: The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered. Solution: Make sure the logged in user has the correct rights to the SharePoint_Configuration database SharePoint_Shell_Acces or: DB_reader or DB_writer Use the following Powershell cmdlet to give … Continued
Access denied: Business Data Connectivity
After creating an External Content Types and connecting the ECT to a list I received the folloing error: Access denied by Business Data Connectivity I created the ECT with SharePoint designer and give the correct users the correct permissions. Somehow when I saved and modified the ECT from SharePoint designer again, the permissions got lost. I … Continued
SharePoint 2010 Won’t Open PDFs on client
To open a PDF document in a SharePoint site (instead of saving the PDF first) you need to change the web application setting: “Web Application General Settings”. There is a setting called Browser File Handling and by default it is set to strict. Change this setting to “Permissive” and PDF’s open with a PDF reader on … Continued
SharePoint 2010 Error (in CoreResultsWebPart::OnInit) when searching
After installing a fresh SharePoint 2010 standard farm I kept on receiving this error when I try to search something in the search center: CoreResultsWebPart::OnInit: Exception initializing: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.SetPropertiesOnQueryReader() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.OnInit(EventArgs e) After trying the following actions: ensuring that hotfix 976462 is installed ensuring … Continued
