Category Tips & tricks

Changing the SharePoint farm account (from a non-domain to a domain account)

July 9, 2014 · by regbac · in PowerShell, Sharepoint 2010, Sharepoint 2013, Tips & tricks · Leave a comment

In a previous post I showed how to install SharePoint without having a domain account (obviously for testing purposes) and a reader – Yes, I have some – asked how to change that to a domain account afterwards. This also applies to changing from a domain account to another domain account ! Here is how: […]

Cannot connect to configuration database

August 29, 2012 · by regbac · in Sharepoint 2010, SQL, Tips & tricks, Workarounds · Leave a comment

How many times have I seen this message on a blank page when starting browsing Sharepoint 2010 or the Central Administration ? Well, a lot of times, believe me, but yesterday was a new one ! A friend called in despair saying that their Sharepoint installation (intranet, 1 Front end webserver and one shared SQL Server with […]

Removing SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer

December 20, 2011 · by regbac · in ADFS, Claims, PowerShell, Sharepoint 2010, Tips & tricks · Leave a comment

I’ve been experimenting a lot with Sharepoint claims authentication, ADFS and custom STS. Doing some cool stuff like deploying cross federation authentication, hosting a custom STS in a sharepoint site and using it directly from another sharepoint site leaves a lot of unwanted stuff on you server So now that my development environment is plastered […]

To use the report builder you must install .NET framework 3.5 – Sharepoint tip of the day !

October 10, 2011 · by regbac · in Reporting Services, Sharepoint 2010, Tips & tricks · 6 Comments

To use the report builder you must install .NET framework 3.5 I recently had a customer who tried to create new Reporting Services report with Report Builder from her sharepoint team site. And she got this error : “To use the report builder you must install .NET framework 3.5”. The problem was that the .NET […]