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If attempting to utilize Site Manager, to COPY an entire site or any particular pages, and receive the following error. The current operation could not be completed. Try again, or contact your system administrator. You may re-try the operation, and you may need to clean up the half-created data first before re-trying. If the problem persists, please contact your system administrator. If you review the logs, and the following is displayed, System.ArgumentException (0×80070057) Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId, Int32& plType, Object& pvarFileOrFolder) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId, Int32& plType, Object& pvarFileOrFolder) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.GetFileOrFolderObject(String strUrl) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CommonUtilities.GetFile...

Without writing code, you can populate User Profile Service (UPS) information into your fields in InfoPath forms. This process is clearly defined in the following  blog . However, as this works perfectly, in the classic-based authentication there are several modifications that will need to be made, to fully utilize the forms, as a result of product limitations caused by Claims-based authentication. Firstly, a Secure Store ID will need to be created in Central Administration (Manage Service Applications), you’ll need to assign the Target Application ID, and add the Target Application Administrators which would ideally need to be a generic ID that never expires, and the members that are mapped to the credentials defined. You’d need to then set the credentials on that domain account for the secure store target application. Lastly, under Central Administration (General Application Settings), and InfoPath Forms Services, the option to ‘Allow user form templates to use authentication ...

If you've ever encountered the need the disable themes on a site collection, there are a few options you may have available. Firstly, there are policies in Central Administration to remove the ability to change the themes across the entire web application, which can be done by the following: Visit Central Administration > Application Management > Web Applications > Manage Web Applications. Select the Web Application that you want to restrict the themes on. Click on "Permission Policy Level" on the Ribbon. Name the policy, and find the permission "Apply Themes and Borders" and toggle the "Deny" check box. Click save. Click on "User Policy" on the Ribbon. Add the users and groups you want to restrict, and then apply the policy you just created. Alternatively, if you want to manually remove the themes, you can update the theme entries, in a file called: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\...

Issue: If you're encountering the following error, when trying to run a powershell script, you may not have sufficient permissions on the database. Get-SPWeb : Cannot access the local farm. Verify that the local farm is properly configured, currently available, and that you have the appropriate permission to access the database before trying again. The issue can be remedied with a few quick powershell commands. Workaround: Perform the following script in the SharePoint Management Shell, as a farm administrator and it will remove the error. Get-SPDatabase | Add-SPShellAdmin SomeDomain\SomeUserName This will grant the user both access to the configuration database as well as the content database. Alternatively, you can revoke that granted access with the opposite command. Get-SPDatabase | Remove-SPShellAdmin SomeDomain\SomeUserName

When attempting to install NewsGator into a SharePoint 2010 Farm Environment, you may encounter the following error, when the installer checks the SharePoint version: Unable to access the farm. To resolve the error, make sure your account is logged into an account that has access to the SharePoint Farm SQL instance, as well as, a SharePoint Farm Administrator role.