Method to grant account access to User Profile Service Application

In order to work with SharPoint's User Profile Service Application beyond a read-only capacity, a user account must be granted appropriate access. Otherwise, you'll encounter errors such as ActivityFeedPermissionDeniedException when attempting to perform operations such as ActivityEvent.CreateActivityEvent.

Method to determine account identity of 'SharePoint 2010 Timer' (SPTimerV4) Windows Service

As a developer of solutions for the SharePoint 2010 platform, you may on occasion find the need to determine the account identity of the SharePoint 2010 Timer Windows Service (SPTimerV4). The following method will return the service's account name for you.

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private static string GetSPTimerJobAccountName() { string retval = null; ServiceController[] controllers = ServiceController.GetServices(); var cont = controllers.Where(c => c.ServiceName == "SPTimerV4"); ServiceController svc = cont.FirstOrDefault(); if (svc != null) { System.Management.SelectQuery query = new System.Management.SelectQuery(string.Format("select name, startname from Win32_Service where name = '{0}'", svc.ServiceName)); using (System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher(query)) { foreach (System.Management.ManagementObject service in searcher.Get()) { retval = service["startname"] as string; } } } return retval; }

Recorded Webinar: Site Provisioning and Governance Assistant for SharePoint 2010

Yesterday's Site Provisioning and Governance Assistant for SharePoint 2010 webinar was very well attended. Based on the webinar's turnout and the multitude of questions we received from participants, there is certainly a lot of interest in the features SPGA 2010 has to offer for SharePoint site creation and governance. Who can blame you for wanting to stop wasting so much valuable time creating, managing and governing SharePoint sites? It just makes sense that so many people are looking for a solution like SPGA 2010 to automate these processes.