Script for SharePoint installation

This weeks task was to setup a SP2010 medium server farm. It took half a day, and using this powershell script to install the index server was AWESOME! You must edit the files before you run them, to add your own db names, servers etc, but once that is done it’s a really fast setup! …

User profile synchronization error

The crawl log in Search Administration returned the following error: sps3://xxx could not be crawled What you must do is to set permissions to the search account that you use for crawling the User Profiles. Select User Profile Services (do not click the link, but highlight the application) Up in the ribbon, click a button …

The semaphore timeout period has expired

I got this error message on my SharePoint farm backup (using the STSADM commandSTSADM.EXE -o backup -directory \srv001sqlbackups -backupmethod full): Object SharePoint_Config failed in event OnBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup directory. SqlException: Write on “\srv003SP_Backupspbr0001000001D.bak” failed: 121(The semaphore timeout period has expired.) BACKUP DATABASE is terminating abnormally. My …

SharePoint farm backup

I think I have blogged about this before, but I cannot enough emphasize the importance of running SharePoints own backup together with your SQL database backup. Of course, some third party backup products might be able to restore in the same way as you can restore a site collection backup inside Central Admin, but it …

VPN client for Windows 7

I have installed Windows 7 and Office 2010 now, which is a big improvement from Vista! Though there are some applications that do not work with Win 7, like Cisco VPN. Yes, I am sure that someone has found a version and have done all the settings/regedit hacks that you must do, but really… So …