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Should i have the “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application” role active on all servers in a large farm?
I've checked the resources at Microsoft TechNet, MSDN and Bing but I’m not aware of any information regarding the best practice about the configuration for the "Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web ...
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Sharepoint service applications - Purpose of each component
When working with SharePoint 2010 Service Applications, you must create a lot of "plumbing" code. There is a service, a service instance, a service proxy, a service application, and a service ...
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Managed Metadata Service Application and Crazy Behavior
Good afternoon everyone.
I've been working on the implementation of a SharePoint 2010 farm for over a week know, which is far longer than I should have been working on it. I'm running into a ...
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Sharepoint 2010: How to stop and start (restart) a service application?
In central admin, I have a list of services - excellent, and the status of each service - excellent.
Now how to I stop and start them?
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adding a new server to the farm and run an existing Service Application on it
Event though my question is somewhat development-related, I believe it's more of an IT Pro question, so please keep reading if you're not a developer!
I am developing a custom Service Application. I ...
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Should I have separate application pools for Service Applications?
So I've looked high and low for a best-practice, and a practical practice to this: Should I separate each of my service applications in a SharePoint 2010 installation into different application pools?
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How to programmatically determine which application pool a service application is using?
Is there a way to programmatically determine which application pool a service application is using?
Further i would like to get the information about the service account the app pool is using.
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User profile is not getting started after SP1 on sharepoint 2010 environment?
We are neither able to start or reprovision the user profile application after installing the SP-1 on the sharepoint 2010 enterprise environment. Is it a known issue?
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Tutorial for implementing a SharePoint Service Application based on a Windows Service
I'm looking for a tutorial or some other information on how to implement a SharePoint Service Application which is based on a Windows Service.
Unfortunately there is not much information to find ...
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When should I do custom Service Application?
We have a great feature in SharePoint 2010 as possibility to make custom Service Application.
What is the best practise how to anylize then should we make custom service application and when we ...
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SharePoint Server Search 14 service disabling itself after SP1 install?
A couple of weeks ago I installed SP1 and the June 2011 CU on my SharePoint 2010 environment and since then the service "SharePoint Server Search 14" has been changing its Startup Type from Automatic ...
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Additional Managed Metadata Service
I am deploying a small farm and am going to be using a taxonomy. Should I create a new Managed Metadata service application instance or just use the default? What are the advantages/disadvantages?
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Configuring MaxReceivedMesageSize for Search ServiceApplication
Browsing the SearchService application logs through the Central Administration I noticed an error occured while crawling one of my Content Sources.
There's the description:
The maximum message size ...
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What is a service application and a service account in plain english?
I am finding it difficult to find a plain non/semi technical description online of what these are used for.
I come from a programming background but don't have a lot of administration experience.
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Start application proxy
Access Services Web Service Application Proxy and Excel Services Application Web Service Application Proxy are showing stopped. But their parent Services show "Started".
I tried Stop and restart ...
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Storing settings for a service application
I created a custom service application which needs to store some settings. I've been able to create a manage.aspx management page which is usable in Central Admin. But what I don't know is where I ...
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Can not create a user profile synchronization connection
I have a new SharePoint 2010 server farm that I'm trying to configure. Installation went fine. But I'm having trouble getting the user profiles to import.
I've created the User Profile service ...
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What is a query server in SharePoint farm?
As per my understanding a farm consists of:
SharePoint Server
Database
Now the above SharePoint Server can be one of the following roles:
WFE
Application Server
So basically a SharePoint farm ...
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Information and tutorials about developing a SharePoint Service Application
I'm looking for information and tutorials on how to develop a SharePoint Service Application with the SharePoint Service Application Framework. The Internet seems to be full with information about how ...
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Service Application causing heavy load
I've developed a custom service application which causes quite some load on a server. It processes a PDF document and performs OCR and some more recognition on it. For this we're using a third party ...
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December CU SP 2010
My question is during December CU installation period(In sharepoint servers)..any outage???(i agree while running psconfig after the installation, there will be outage...but during December CU ...
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Service Application Stuck in “Stopping” State - How to force-stop?
In this case it's (of course) the User Profile Service Application. How can I force it to stop? I've tried:
stsadm -o provisionservice -action stop -servicetype "M
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SharePoint 2010: When to provision two Search Service Applications?
I am working in a single farm with two distinct web applications. Each web application's content needs to be isolated from the other. Should I provision two Search Service Applications or use a ...
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Web Analytics not working
I have SharePoint Server 2010 with Standard Client Access License and the Web Analytics isn’t populating. I have Web Analytics Data Processing Service and Web Analytics Web Service as started.
I get ...
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SP2010, The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service problem
i was having this error and i still cant solve it. btw, SP2010 running on win2k8r2.
I enabled the Indexing Service and still unable to get it running.
i suspect some network account issue and I ...
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OWA Virtual Paths
I'm learning the ropes as an admin and have been installing services the past day or so in my test environment. I chose during the installs of SP and OWA to install to a secondary drive and not use my ...
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SharePoint 2010-move central admin site
We will planning to move central admin site from app server-1 to app server -2.
my Query : any know issues or possible impact due to change the CA host from server to another.
can we run config ...
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“There is no default service endpoint for service application” w/Custom Service Application
I'm working on putting together a custom service application and I'm seeing the aforementioned error: "There is no default service endpoint for service application"
The full stack trace is below:
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SharePoint 3 tier Service Application with EF
I'm looking for some best practices on how to setup a three tier application design with a SharePoint Service Applications.
A case example: suppose I have customers, each customer has a set of ...
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Creating partitioned Service Application
I'm looking for best practices on setting up partitioned service applications in SharePoint. Not the default ones, but a custom one.
As I understand, a partitioned service application like the ...
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Good tutorial for my first Custom Service Application in SharePoint 2010?
I found this one, but it has a step that says to "Select the “WCF Service” project template...", which wouldn't make sense for adding a New Item (at least that doesn't sound right to me).
I'm curious ...
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How do you register web.config changes to SharePoint service applications, they way you can for web applications?
The SPWebConfigModification class can be used for updating content web applications and also central administration. This can be applied to the SPWebApplication and also SPWebService classes. ...
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Publishing Managed Metadata and Using it with UPS
We have a publishing and collaboration Farm, published a Managed Metadata Service and given Full Access to the collabortion Farm.
In the Collaboration Farm, created a User profile Property and ...
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FAST Search Crawl DB sizing
Do we follow the standard (5% of content IIRC) sizing metrics for Crawl DBs when using FAST as our search server, within our Content SSA; or are there separate metrics for FAST (ie. is the crawl ...
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SharePoint 2010 Service Applications and Search
I am considering using a custom Service Application to meet a feature requirement of one of my clients. There is also a requirement that the data stored by the Service Application be searchable.
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Why is the Create a new service application button disabled and the link not active in Central Admin?
When I go to manage service applications in Central Administration and try to create a new service application like: New > Create a new service application, the link isn't active.
My issue is I would ...
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Adding Apps Problem at the Sharepoint Store
I try to add app at Sharepoint Store but I just get errors.
I've done the following error:
"Sorry, we can't seem to connect to the SharePoint Store. Try again in a bit."
Now this error occurs ...
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Default applications
Not sure why Managed Metadata shows as default application thru central admin. I even ran following in powershell Set-SPMetadataServiceApplicationProxy -Identity "Metadata Service Application Proxy" ...
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Unabe to create Search Service Application
When creating a new Search Service Application the job seems to stop half way through.
The search service application is created but displays an error in the Service Application page and the search ...
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Grant tfs build to execute sharepoint cmdlet
I use TFS Build which is configured with a service account.
I've modified the worklow template to execute a powershell script.
The powershell is launched but on sharepoint cmdlet I have an "access ...
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Trust Issues with topology.svc when publishing Service Applications in lab environment
I'm having certificate issues when trying to configure one Farm to consume the Managed Metadata service of another. This is a lab environment so I don't want to go buying any proper certificates. I ...
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How do I delete (or failing that, fix) the Search Service Application?
I have numerous problems with my Search Service Application. Long story short, I want to just start again from a clean slate, but deleting the search service application in Central Administration ...
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SharePoint 2010 Infopath query
I need to install Infopath 2010 in SharePoint 2010 server ?
Please share the download link and steps for installation and other key points
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How does Membership show in Mysite - SharePoint 2010 - Part-2?
User's membership is not getting populated in the Membership tab on Mysite in our SharePoint 2010 environment. It was working fine until we provisioned a new UPA (used the existing profile and social ...
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Service App custom groups and multi-instance scenarios
Have you deployed custom Service Application groups and/or deployed multiple instances of a Service Application? If so, I'm looking for specific examples I can use for our OnPrem SharePoint 2010 ...
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Secure Store Service App Error
I am trying to setup Secure Store Server and after successfully creating the Service and the Proxy I am greeted with this error when I attempt to manage it.
Cannot complete this action as the Secure ...
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Disable a Specific News Feed Activity Using the Client Object Model
Hello and thanks for reading. I've been working with the out-of-box SharePoint 2010 News Feed portion of My Sites, and I am planning to deploy it to many users.
I am building a console application ...
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Sharepoint 2010 DBs SAN issue
SharePoint 2010 All Databases are moved from one Storage(i.e., A) to another storage(i.e., B).
Note: Already SharePoint working with storage A properly. Due to storage A expiration , we plan to ...
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Trouble loading service application
I am receiving the following error when I enter in the url of my service application.
"Could not load file or assembly '$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$' or one of its dependencies. The system ...
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User Profile Service Application Error
I have Sharepoint Server 2010 Standard installed.
I want to configure the default "User Profile Service Application".
When I click on User Profile Service Application from central admin, it gives ...
