Detail: DOMAIN\farm_account, the account used for the SharePoint timer service and the central administration site, is highly privileged and should not be used for any other services on any machines in the server farm.  Solution: To clear this error we must change the identities for the services and application pools to domain accounts that are…

This error occurred in SharePoint Designer 2010 when attempting to edit a masterpage.  Like many errors with SharePoint 2010, this is related to Alternate Access Mappings.  The server was being connected to by its short form url of http://site.  If connected via the long form, http://site.domain.extension, it would work with issue. To permanently resolve the…

You are prompted to download and save these documents.  After a bit of trolling the internet, I found the link below.  Apparently it is a Central Administration setting.  To resolve the issue we need to set Browser Handling to Permissive. Open Central Administration Click “Manage Web Applications” under “Application Management” Highlight the web application experiencing…

Reference source: http://sharepointbergen.blogspot.com/2010/05/sharepoint-2010-excel-services-workbook.html “The Workbook cannot be opened.” $w = Get-SPWebApplication $w[0].GrantAccessToProcessIdentity(“domain\account”) Note: this must be done for each web application, this example assumes that the first (0) web application is the one being referenced.