Tag: SharePoint 2010

So you have started to administer SharePoint 2010 using a non-farm account. You try to open the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and you are greeted with this error:

“The Local Farm Is Not Accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependency are not registered”

You Bing this error and find a lot of blog posts that suggests you to open SQL Server Manager and give DBO permissions to all the related SharePoint databases; content, config etc.

Please don’t do that.

Here’s the proper way to give your account the needed permissions:

Open the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell with an account that already has farm permissions.

Permission the desired account using:

> add-spshelladmin -username domain\username

That’s the proper way of doing it.

You can also check which accounts has shell admin rights:

>get-spshelladmin

If you ever have wanted to know what new features the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 brings to us, you can follow these links from Microsoft.

What's New

From the TechNet site, we have the What's New in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 articles.

And from a development perspective we have these MSDN articles:

What's New in SharePoint Foundation 2010

and

What's New in SharePoint Server 2010

Guides

SharePoint Server 2010 Overview Evaluation Guide

SharePoint Server 2010 Walkthrough Guide

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Evaluation Guide for IT Professionals

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Professional Developer's Evaluation Guide

Training Kit

SharePoint Server 2010 Training Kit

VHD

If you want to download and take SharePoint Server 2010 for a test, you can use this VHD:

SharePoint Server 2010 / Office 2010 Evaluation VHD