Category Archives: Configuration

Force SharePoint 2010 Search Scope Update

Posted on March 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

For those wondering how to force a scope update and not having to wait 14 minutes for each update, this can help.

Go to Central Administration site
Go to your Search Service Application (Manage Services -> Search SA)
On the left hand side, click on Search Administration link under Administration
Unders System Status, look for an entry saying Scopes needing update and click on the Start Update Now link (see below)

Pretty straightforward !

Hope that helps !

Andy Nogueira.

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Manage Access Requests not showing on a SharePoint 2010 site

Posted on June 1, 2010 | 1 Comment

The other day I was just trying to get to the Manage Access request option on SharePoint 2010 and for my surprise I couldn’t find the link to get to the page.

So in order to figure it out, I went to a MOSS 2007 site, and I knew I could get to it going to Site settings -> Advanced permissions -> Settings -> Access requests, this showed me that this page name and location was /_layouts/setrqacc.aspx. I thought that Microsoft probably haven’t changed this on SharePoint 2010. So I went back to my SP2010 server and appended this location to my site’s URL. For my surprise I got an error message that gave me an insight on what was going on. The message said something about emails not being configured.

So I went to the SharePoint 2010 Central Admin site, and under System Settings -> Configure outgoing e-mail settings, once I configured the smtp server and outgoing email.

Then I tried to access the page again and it worked. I’ve also realized that one option in SharePoint 2010 that I was not seeing before started to show up, and that was a link on the Ribbon going to Site Settings -> Site Permissions. The link that said Manage Access Requests (see below) started to show up.

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Links not enabled on SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Site

Posted on December 3, 2009 | 2 Comments

Here’s a quick tip that may save some people a lot of time. I have a standalone SharePoint 2010 environment installed on my desktop for development purposes (Vista 64-bit). I was trying to create a new web application to host my site but for my surprise when I went to Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage Web Applications, the ribbon wouldn’t show some of the buttons enabled (see image below). When I clicked on one of the web applications I saw only a few buttons on the ribbon enabled. That was strange because I was pretty sure I’m a farm administrator.

While doing some research on what might be causing this problem I’ve realized that I had to access the Central Admin site in a different way. So this is what I did.

Please make sure to add the Central Administration site to the Intranet zone
Run Internet Explorer as Administrator (right-click the icon and select Run as administrator)
Not sure if this makes a difference, but I’ve also used the IE 64-bit version

Once I’ve did that I’ve tried to access the site again, using the same login credentials and voilá. For my surprise some of the buttons that were disabled before this time were enabled (see image below). And I was able to click on New button to create a new web application.