In order to delete a Records Library or Records Center, all holds and records in a library must be removed and the Holds and Processing timer job must be run. If this criteria is not met, the "Delete this Document Library" will not be an option in the library settings.

Here is how you can do this …

So first, you have to delete all of the content type's children or you'll receive the error "Error: content type in use." Once the dependencies are gone, you can delete the custom site content type itself.

$sitename = $args[0] $contentType = $args[1]

$web = Get-SPWeb $sitename $ct = …

According to the SharePoint 2010 Communities FAQ, Microsoft is burdening SharePoint 2010 Administrators with new requirements to obtain Active Directory accounts with "Replicate Directory Changes" permissions because...

In order to interrogate AD about “what has changed since time xyz”, we need the …

Earlier today, I created some test Content Types while playing around with the fancy new Content Organizer. I ran into a few errors, though, and subsequently wanted to delete the dummy content types to start over. I was unable to, however, because the content types were still in use. By what? I didn't know.

Too bad …

I'm unsure if this is related to my earlier issue, but today, after installing the SharePoint 2010 June Cumulative Update (KB2536599), I encountered an error while running the Configuration Wizard. It kept telling me that various portions of KB2536599 were missing from a particular server. I verified that they were, in …

Recently, I updated my SharePoint 2010 RTM farm to SharePoint 2010 SP1. I followed the steps touched on here on my WFE. I had a good hour before the June Cumulative rollup would be finished downloading so I figured I'd run the Configuration Wizard on my WFE then go and upgrade my index server.

I was soon presented with …

While the process to create a site column based on external data is pretty straightforward, I wanted to document it here for myself; I keep forgetting that this can't be done using SharePoint Designer. Here's how to do it using your a browser:

Create your External Content Type and associated lists -> Site Actions …

I have a relational table in SQL Server that I access in SharePoint 2010 as an External Content Type. The table, disks, has an FK (serverID) that is associated with a PK in another table, servers, via an Association Operation. Once I create a list and add it to a webpage, I am unable to select the serverID column or …

One of the biggest annoyances of SharePoint 2007 was the lack of a native ability to work directly with SQL Server tables. SharePoint 2010 has addressed that issue with External Content Types. ECT's combine the best of both worlds -- you can modify and manage tables as usual in SQL Server, and display them (somewhat) …

So here's an error that, at the time I encountered it, did not have a great deal of information about it on the web:

The system definition with the same name as this data source already exists in the Business Data Connectivity Metadata Store and it refers to a different data source. Cannot complete operation …