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Tag: SharePoint 2010

Change Password for Service Account Using PowerShell

I recently had a situation in which for testing purposes I had to know the password for a managed service account. There’s no way to know the existing password but you can easily change it. I found a quick and easy to do this via PowerShell. Run the below command:

Set-SPManagedAccount -identity Domain\User -NewPassword (Converto-Securestring “P@ssword” -AsPlainText -Force) -SetNewPassword

After you’re done, make sure to change the password back to a randomly generated password by SharePoint in Central Admin.

August 30, 2019
Search not pulling up plural and other word forms or “Stemming”

Recently, I was working on a custom search for a project and received the complaint that it wasn’t pulling up the proper results. They were searching “Procedure” and nothing with ProcedureS in the document was coming up. Shouldn’t SharePoint be smart enough to pull up different forms of a word? I thought so and so did the users of the site. When I started researching why it wasn’t pulling up plural words, I found that it was a very simple solution. I’m not sure why SharePoint doesn’t do this by default but you just have to change a setting on the search results page.

Under the Results Query Options, be sure to check the “Enable Search Term Stemming” option. This will solve that problem. Hope this helps someone.

July 11, 2012
Failed to Upgrade SharePoint Products

Today I went to update the SharePoint servers with the April 2012 Cumulative Update. It was taken down previously because of an error in the update but it was recently put back up. I, of course, tested them first on our test servers and everything went smoothly. The Cumulative Update installed smoothly but when I went to use the SharePoint Products and Configuration Wizard, the update failed with this error: Task upgrade has failed with a PostSetupConfigurationTaskException An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfigurationTaskException was thrown. Additional exception information: Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products.

I did some research and saw this post: http://wingleungchan.blogspot.com/2011/11/postsetupconfigurationtaskexception.html

It was saying to run the wizard as administrator. I did that and the steps seemed a bit different but I just went through with it. I ensured to say that I wanted the server to stay connected to the farm, host central admin, etc. the install was successful! It took me to Central Admin and was asking me to configure the new farm! What?! Well, after a mini heart attack, I double checked the sites and went back to the main central admin screen. Phew! Everything was good – since it was using the same configuration database, etc. I think by running it as administrator, it thought I was adding a new server to the farm so it redirects to that page.

July 11, 2012