The big buzz, or should I say marketing push, this year is surrounding SharePoint Online – Microsoft’s SharePoint in the cloud offering.  We are just beginning to explore the potential pros and cons of moving our infrastructure to this environment.  In this case we are considering the SharePoint Online – Standard offering, which offers a…

Issue: Your crawl component stops responding and the content source is is stuck on a crawling, starting, or stopping status.  You may try a multitude of solutions and eventually attempt to delete and recreate the service application.  Upon creation of the search service application and opening it you are greeted by this message. Resolution:  This…

Add/remove sharepoint group using power shell Content from http://vimleshtiwari.blogspot.com/2011/01/addremove-sharepoint-group-using-power.html #Add a sharepoint group using power shell#Create a sharepoint custom permission using Power shell$web = get-SPWeb “http://sitecollectionName” $member = $web.AllUsers[“domain\username”] $CustomPermission =”Permission Name” $CustomRoleRoledef = New-Object “Microsoft.SharePoint.SPRoleDefinition” $CustomRoleRoledef.Name = “$CustomPermission” $CustomRoleRoledef.Description = “Custom permission level for Site Owners” $CustomRoleRoledef.BasePermissions = “CancelCheckout,AddListItems,EditListItems,DeleteListItems,ViewListItems,OpenItems,ViewVersions, DeleteVersions,CreateAlerts,ViewFormPages,ViewUsageData,ViewPages,BrowseUserInfo,ManageAlerts, UseRemoteAPIs,UseClientIntegration,Open” $web.RoleDefinitions.Add($CustomRoleRoledef) $web.Update() # Create…