SharePoint Tips

User Profile Service

• User Profile Service Sync Service will not start if the databases are on named SQL Server instance.
• User Profile Service will not work on SharePoint stand alone installation.
• To make Target Audience feature work, you need to import Groups also as part of the Profile Sync connection
• It is suggested to run the ‘User Profile Service’ & ‘User Profile Sync Service’ on the same server.

General

• IIS 7 URL Rewrite module is not supported by SharePoint in any version. However it works for anonymous authentication and not work windows authentication. (http://blog.mastykarz.nl/friendly-urls-sharepoint-site-4-steps-iis7-url-rewrite-module/comment-page-2/#comment-80874)
• Flushing the blob cache has to be executed on each WFE server (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg277249.aspx)
• Managed Metadata terms can be maintained at site collection level.

Search

• In a one way trusted sharepoint farm installation, make sure you set (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2344518)

$searchapp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication

$searchapp.SetProperty(“ForceClaimACLs”,1)

Otherwise search will not return results for trusted domain users.

• Make sure the web application has root site collection otherwise you may have crawling related problems.
• As part of general maintenace, it is good idea to clear the ‘BLOB Cache’ on WFE servers. In occasional cases it may cause troubles by showing wrong content.