After having some issues with the Search Service Application that is created when you run the SharePoint 2010 Farm Configuration wizard I decided to delete it and manually configure my own Search Service app (conforming to M$ best practices). To my annoyance after creating the Service Application and clicking in to configure it I got […]

This post assumes that: You have at least got the October 2010 CU Photos are stored in the thumbnailPhoto attribute in Active Directory (

You recieve the following security error from SharePoint 2010 Central Admin: The Unattended Service Account Application ID is not specified or has an invalid value. Explanation:“The Unattended Service Account is a single account that all documents can use to refresh data. It is required when connecting to data sources external to SharePoint, such as SQL. […]