Working on implementing a POC to demonstrate the new e-Discovery capabilities in SharePoint and Exchange 2013 I hit an interesting issue which I could not find any resources online to troubleshoot. To setup the e-Discovery I successfully: Installed...

Here is quick step by step post on how to build a sample App to embed a Yammer feed on an O365 SharePoint site by leveraging Yammer Connect API . In Visual Studio 2012 create a new project using SharePoint 2013 App template: Open the App.js file an add...

Cross posting from Exchange Team Blog: Site mailboxes allow users to work together naturally – while compliance is applied behind the scenes. A site mailbox brings Exchange emails and SharePoint documents together. For users, a site mailbox serves as...

One of the common challenges upgrading a multi-farm MOSS 2007 (Parent/Child) deployment to SharePoint 2010 was the introduction of new service application architecture and planning for downtime upgrading MOSS 2007 parent farm to a new SharePoint 2010...

SharePoint 2013 brings a lot of new capabilities and enhanced functionalities such as new XSP (Cross Site Publishing), Image and Video rendition, Friendly URLs, Content Search Web part and tight integration with Search and Managed Metadata service applications...

  As you’ve already heard lots of new and enhanced capabilities are coming through the latest version of Office Web Apps (Preview) , my colleague Steve Peschka did a great job on his post going over steps required to deploy a new OWA farm for your...

This post provides a high-level step by step guide on upgrading a SharePoint 2010 site to a SharePoint 2013 (Customer Preview) and as with any Beta release is subject to change. For further information on planning and upgrading content and services to...

As you all know we publicly announced the availability of public beta (Customer Preview) release of next version of Office yesterday including SharePoint 2013, like previous release of SharePoint I've had the pleasure to work with Product Team and elite...

FYI, from Microsoft support site: A recent, isolated issue was discovered in the SharePoint 2010 Products April 2012 Cumulative Update that could result in an HTTP 500 error when users delete objects to include documents, lists, and Webs and a new...

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...