// January 2013

the My Links “vanished” in SharePoint 2010 – they were no longer visible. The Problem: Some clients heavily utilize those server-side favorites. SharePoint 2010 The links are stored in the Database and the controls to manage the favorites and the page for that is there. Luckily the migration from SP2007 to SP2010 migrated the links, too. Just the control in the ribbon was missing – but there is a very good codeplex solution for that.

Here a small script to provision the Business Data Connectivity Service Application-without ugly GUID in the database name. Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #Settings $ServiceName = “BDC Service” $ServiceProxyName = “BDC Proxy” $AppPoolAccount = “demo\spservices” $AppPoolName = “SharePoint Services App Pool” $DatabaseServer = “sp2013” $DatabaseName = “SP2013 BDC” Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow “Checking if Application Pool Accounts exists” $AppPoolAccount = Get-SPManagedAccount -Identity $AppPoolAccount -EA 0 if($AppPoolAccount -eq $null) { Write-Host “Please supply the password for the Service Account.