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Vanity URL is the url that just redirects to existing site to do that in SharePoint 2010/2013: Note: the following steps needs to be done on all front ends servers if you are having more than 1 and also make sure to add it to the DNS In IIS go to sites and add new one and enter the site information with the host name for vanity URL in the permissions for the new site add all authenticated users with read permission In IIS section click Authentication enable Windows Authentication till focused on the Windows Authentication in the right pane click Advanced Settings and deselect Enable Kernel-mode authentication. In IIS section, click HTTP Redirect. Check Redirect requests to this destination and enter the redirection information and apply this rule Now the vanity URL is ready

    $Site  =  Get-SPWeb –Identity <URL> $List  =  $Site.Lists[" List Name "] $List.EnableThrottling =  $false $List.Update()

  To Migrate SharePoint DBs from SQL Server to another either same version or to a new version (2008 to 2008 or 2008 to 2012) you can follow the following steps:   Stop all SharePoint and IIS Related Services. Stop IIS. Detach all related SQL Server databases. Configuration database Central Administration content database Content databases Service application databases   Move all database files (.mdf, .ldf, and .ndf) to the new server. Set up same user permissions on the new SQL server. Attach your databases to the new SQL Server. Verify ports in your new SQL server. Go to your SharePoint server and create your SQL Server Alias. Start all your SharePoint services.

With   3 Commands you can provision the State Service in SP 2010 which is needed for infopath templates $serviceApp = New-SPStateServiceApplication -Name "StateServiceName" New-SPStateServiceDatabase -Name "StateServiceDatabaseName" -ServiceApplication $serviceApp New-SPStateServiceApplicationProxy -Name "ApplicationProxyName" -ServiceApplication $serviceApp -DefaultProxyGroup