After updating one of my SharePoint 2010 labs with SharePoint 2010 December 2011 CU, I noticed that I could not see the document preview and thumbnails as part of my search results. After some digging with Fiddler I noticed that the call to wacproxy.ashx...

  As you might know, the Microsoft SharePoint documentation team is offering a series of dedicated design sessions through out the week of October 3rd during the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA. I am very privileged to drive this sessions...

As I was working with a customer on designing their SharePoint 2010 farm using HNSC approach customer was curious on why they are not being able to return results for those site collections. After reviewing the search service application in their POC...

Recently I was asked by one of my customers on how the Content Organizer feature can be leveraged to design a large archival solution using SharePoint 2010. Initially this feature was enabled and configured for their Record Center (e.g. http://records...

Big thank you to Mark Kashman and the team for all the hard work on releasing these great content. “The Microsoft Office 365 Overview provides an excellent perspective of the overall value Office 365 provides to modern organizations in terms of productivity...

The Office 365 Beta is now open to the public. Office 365 provides a cloud-based subscription service that includes Office 2010 Professional Plus, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. Office 365 also provides developers and ISVs a platform...

I was asked by one of my customers to help troubleshooting why they could not import multi-value values for user profiles using BCS in SharePoint 2010, first of all this TechNet article and Spence Harbar’s blog have a lot of good information on planning...

Recently I received questions from our customers on SharePoint 2010 People Picker behavior when provisioning web applications in Claims mode using trusted identity provider such as AD FS 2.0, complaining the control not behaving as it does in Classic...

I highly recommend checking the following new MSIT showcase videos which recently got published, covering SharePoint 2010 upgrade and Fast Search deployment: How Microsoft IT Deployed FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Managing a Parallel...

I just had the opportunity to sit and discuss SharePoint 2010 UPA with Spence and Bill, bellow is the synopsis and link to access the video: About this Video In today’s episode, SharePoint Product Manager Bill Baer interviews SharePoint Certified Masters...

In this post I will go over on what is needed to successfully fail over to a SharePoint 2010 DR farm and restore content along with social and enterprise tagging information. For this post I will focus on the Content database, and the User profile and...

We recently released a Microsoft Security Advisory about a security vulnerability in ASP.NET. Richard Riley's post on SharePoint Team blog documents recommended workarounds for the following SharePoint products: SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Foundation...

Just released! Best practices for using fine-grained permissions   by Sean Livingston. This document describes the use of fine-grained permissions (FGP) for SharePoint® 2010 Products and SharePoint® Products and Technologies; performance issues related...

  While assisting a customer to deploy a SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting services I hit couple of issues that are not clearly documented on TechNet or MSDN: SSRS SharePoint integration only works with “Trusted Account” mode and integration mode would...

Today I faced an awkward issue at customer and thought it may be useful to others who are going through the same path, simply if you want to provision Search or State Service Application using DBA created database approach via Central Administration or...

As Stefan just posted on his blog the first CU for SharePoint 2010 is now available for download, if you are planning to install 983497 for SPS 2010 make sure to install 2281364 or you will get the following error when trying to open UPA management page...

The Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administer and manage Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation 2010 and Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010. To be specific I am very excited for these two features:  ...

Recently I was asked by a customer on the steps required to upgrade content from MOSS 2007 (Windows auth) web application to SharePoint server 2010 and providing access to the sites and my sites for same users and groups via AD FS 2.0. For this post I...

As you might know I’ve been working with Spence and rest of the SharePoint 2010 MCM delivery team on creating the material. We had a very successful upgrade rotation back in May and the first full rotation will start on July 12 (Good luck to all...

SharePoint 2010 introduces rich new areas of functionality that create more choices and fresh opportunities for developers and solution architects. Sandboxed solutions, new options for data modelling and data access, and new client programming models...

Today I was asked by a colleague whether we can run User Profile Service instance and Profile Synchronization service on more than one server in the farm and the answer is Yes! Q1) Assume that you have started the UPA instance on your app server (e.g...

Congratulations to Ignite delivery team! Recommended training for both IT-Pro and Developer folks :) SharePoint Server 2010 Advanced IT Professional Training For IT professionals, SharePoint Server 2010 offers enhancements to drive productivity, a scalable...

After installing Office Web Apps bits and configuring Word Viewer and PowerPoint service application in your farm, you will get this error when trying to open a Word document or PowerPoint PPT file via browser: Looking at ULS you should see an entry similar...

As part of configuring your SharePoint Server 2010 farm you need to start the User Profile Synchronization service so you can import user profiles from AD or other applicable sources, one of the issues you may face is that after starting the service you...