The purpose of this article is to explain how InfoPath 2010 integrates with Team Foundation Server to provide source control for the forms.    Since the XSN file generated by InfoPath is a binary file and since Team Foundation Server cannot...

The objective of this article is to share some of the Office 365 Code Submission Best Practices based on my personal experience. The MSOCAF (Microsoft SharePoint Online Code Analysis Framework) tool is your friend which can ensure that the package being...

These are the rough notes of a SharePoint 2010 training, I’ve attended today. Will elaborate more on these when I get time. High Level Features in SharePoint 2010: Sites: Ribbon User Interface SharePoint WorkSpace (Sync Framework) SharePoint Mobile Standard...

Microsoft has recently announced the SharePoint 2010 Beta 2. Now anyone can download, install and try the same. More info at : SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is now available for download You can download SharePoint and Office 2010 public beta from http...

Here are some links to a great set of online PerformancePoint Server 2007 tutorials, including configuration of the planner modeler, Excel add-in and dashboard designer. http://blogs.technet.com/riyazj/archive/2007/12/24/performancepoint-server-2007-training...

Here is a really cool set of Visio Diagrams related to Microsoft SharePoint. The diagrams illustrate models, scenarios, and flowcharts for planning, designing and deploying SharePoint installations. Models Model: Business Intelligence Model: Office SharePoint...

As an early step towards making FAST ESP search capabilities interoperable with SharePoint, a set of installable Web parts for integrating FAST ESP and SharePoint have been made available in Codeplex. With this package, SharePoint administrators can quickly...

Stsadm can be used to backup/ restore individual aspects of your sharepoint farm. You can backup the entire sharepoint farm, an individual site collection or even an individual site. For Backup: To export sites : Stsadm –o export –url <URL> -filename...

Recently I came across this great article in Todd’s blog on the different redirect options available in SharePoint. These are generally the most common requests from the clients. http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=48

If you wanted to copy a site from one place to another within the same site collection, you can use the copy feature of the sharepoint present in Content and Structure. In case if you have to copy the site from one webapplication to another, or to a different...

I’ve recently got a chance to recently use this real cool tool to check if my client’s MOSS environment/ topology is compliant to the Microsoft best practices. A must have for a MOSS Administrator. The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint...

I’ve recently tried exporting a site and importing it in a different location in the client’s place. I’ve noticed that after exporting the site, all the pages still have the reference to the page layout in the old server. After a bit of search, found...

As List IDs are generated at runtime and are non-deterministic, it is not possible to refer to the target list using List Id. So, as a work around, most of the solutions on the internet suggest to write Custom Code. But this can be avoided and the lookup...