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Clearing the Configuration Cache for SharePoint Perform the below steps on all the servers in the farm. 1. Stop the Timer service Start  ->  services.msc  ->   SharePoint Timer Service  (SPTimerV4) ->  Stop 2. Browse to  %SystemDrive%\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID Note: The  Program Data  folder is a hidden file There could be more than 2 folders in this location. 3. Open the folder named as GUID’s with ‘-’ (dashed filename for the folder). Example -  1f8c67d2-2cd9-4196-ab1a-d1a2daed2aa7 4. Arrange the files by Type. You would find few xml files and a file named  cache.ini . 5. Delete all files except cache.ini (DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE - cache.ini) 6. Reset cache.ini (If you open this file, you will find a number like this – 3400261. Change the value in cache.ini to 1) 7. Start the Timer service Start  ->  services.msc  ->   SharePoint Timer Service  (SPTimerV4) ->  Start. 8. Note: The file system cache

SharePoint 2010 search allows you to  allows you add  selected content at the top of search queries for certain keywords and this is called SharePoint Search  Best Bets     This is blog I am going provide all the steps you need to setup best bet search in SharePoint 2010 1. Site Actions | Site Settings | Search Keywords below Site Collection Administration 2. Add new Keywords 3.  Keyword Information  The  Keyword  Phrase is what search queries will match to return a keyword result  Synonyms are words that users might type when searching for the keyword. Separate them using semicolons. Best Bets  Best Bets  are the recommended results for this keyword.  Best Bets  will appear in search results in the order listed. Click on Add best bets and enter following information Click OK for all open Windows and go to your search center and type in your  Best Bet and search.  In my situations I created a folder called Books added four different books. I added this URL a

How to Create a Workflow to Change Item Level Permissions Yesterday in our ShareLabs session a question was asked on how to display and/or secure data in a list based on criteria other than the author.  I am going to use colors as the criteria for the purposes of this post.  So the scenario is that we want to build a list to track something like, say.... oh I don’t know…. how about bicycles.  We only want to display certain colors to certain groups for whatever reason.  There are multiple ways to accomplish this, one of them being that we create views that filter the colors that we want to display, then create a page and drop a web part for each filtered view, and then apply Audience Targeting on each web part.  At first blush this looks like it would accomplish what we want it to but what happens when a user goes to the list itself instead of our web part page?  They are going to be able to see all entries in the list regardless of color, because of the permissions that they