SSRS cmdlets not available: The term 'Install-SPRSService' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet...

If you get "Install-SPRSService : The term 'Install-SPRSService' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again." trying to enable Reporting Services on SharePoint 2013, the following are possible causes:

1. You are on a "regular" Windows PowerShell window instead of a SharePoint Management Shell one, or Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode is not installed ("Install Reporting Services SharePoint Mode for SharePoint 2013").
2. Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2012 is not installed on Reporting Services. According to "Software requirements for business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2013" SP1 is needed for Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode on SharePoint 2013.Only after I installed SP1 on SSRS the SSRS cmdlets became available.

My SharePoint PowerShell Scripts

1. Get the template name and ID for a web site:
   (Get-SPWeb http://website) | select WebTemplate, WebTemplateID
   A list of templates names and ID's can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607979(v=office.14).aspx.

How to Install SharePoint 2013 Project Templates on Visual Studio 2012

1. Download and install Web Platform Installer: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx.
2. Close all VS instances or the setup will fail.
3. On the Web PI select "Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012".

After that open VS and the SharePoint 2013 templates should be on the New Project dialog, under Installed | Templates | <language> | Office/SharePoint | SharePoint Solutions.

SharePoint 2013: Configure user profile synchronization service

On the default SharePoint 2013 configuration, the User Profile Synchronization Service (UPSS) is not enabled, so alerts are created but don't work because users don't have a valid e-mail address. Supposing user e-mails are somehow already loaded on AD, here what's you gonna do to configure user profile synchronization:

1. Follow the article "Synchronize user and group profiles in SharePoint Server 2013" (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049(v=office.15).aspx). Notice that the synchronization account must be Farm Admin, and local admin on the box running the UPSS instance.
2. Use ADSI Edit on the DC to give "Replicate Directory Changes" permission to the synchronization account on the container where your users are.
3. My test domain had no Exchange or other similar mail server program, so the AD attribute "proxyAddress" was blank. By default SharePoint loads an user e-mail address from this attribute, so I had to remap SharePoint "Work E-Mail" property to the "mail" attribute on AD (which I already had filled). Then run a full synchronization (an incremental one did not load the values).

Cheers,

GB