Pradeepa Achar

In the SharePoint world, Many a times after installing everything including search server express, when you tried to crawl the contents, it may give some nonsense error  and you may not be able to understand what it is. The solution i have come across is , during the installations of required software you have to take care . The search server  express might not be having certain files which is required for search to work properly.  For that you need to install service pack .     Here are the procedure to set up the environment for SharePoint : Download Microsoft SharePoint Foundation from the below link:             http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5970      2. Download Search Server express from the below link:            http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18914      3. Download the SP1 for Microsoft SharePoint foundation:            http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26640 After installing MS SQL ful

Being SharePoint administrator, taking the backup of farm is the basic need in SharePoint administration. Using the Powershell script we can take the backup of entire SharePoint Farm.  Following is the powershell script to take the backup of entire sharepoint farm           Backup -SPFarm -Directory D:SharePointSIteBackUp -BackupMethod full In the above script,  D:SharePointSIteBackUp is the backup location on hard disk. Here i have create a folder called SharePointSiteBackup inside the D drive. Most important thing is, Do not provide any space or special characters between the words while giving name to the backup folder. Because while running the script, it gives an error. So folder name should be without space.  This may help someone Cheers -Pradeepa Achar