Windows Service marked for deletion

I tried to use the sc.exe delete "Servicename" and it said that the "Service has been marked for deletion". Earlier, I had used installutil /u to uninstall it. Since, both of them did not work, I wasnt sure what else I had to do. Then, I realized that I had the services MMC open. Close it and the service gets deleted.

Manage Servers in SharePoint shows "Upgrade required", even after applying updates

Run the following command on the servers where upgrade is required

PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures

Then run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard on the servers where upgrade is required

Site Count from Content Database is 0

This happens when the powershell script  that overwrites an already existing db from the bak file does not do it properly. In order to fix this, do the following


1. Dismount the Content Database from SharePoint
2. Remove the Content Database from SharePoint
3. Delete the messed up Content Database from SQL
4. Restore using the SQL UI
5. Mount the Content database into Sharepoint

Sharepoint custom ribbon buttons disappear

Custom ribbon buttons in Sharepoint will disappear if the tool bar type is anything but Full Tool bar for a Ribbon button that is provisioned to the list view

Json to C# converter

json2csharp.com/

 

This was the site that I used to convert Sharepoint TaxonomyInternalService.json calls to C# json objects. We then did an Httppost to the taxonomyinternalservice.json and used the oob JavascriptSerializer class to deserialize the result from the service.

Web Properties FTW

Programmatically updating the Search Settings for a Site Collection - Coding Times of a .Net Developer from Yard - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Top 10 Secret Features in Windows 8

Top 10 Secret Features in Windows 8