Windows SharePoint Services V3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 are now be able to get updated to the latest available bits with February CU. Side Notes: The sizes of the packages are smaller than in the past (June 2010 CU and earlier). This...

The next cumulative update is available. KB articles are having sometimes a bit delay but the link should work when these are available. MSF2010: 2459125 The full server package for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/default...

Windows SharePoint Services V3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 are now be able to get updated to the latest available bits with December CU. Side Notes: The sizes of the packages are smaller than in the past (June 2010 CU and earlier). This...

Symptoms On Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: You have installed the Dutch language pack. You created a publishing portal with SubSites and additional pages. You want to migrate the content database to the new SharePoint Server 2010 and attached...

I already posted a script for this issue but for MOSS 2007. With SPS2010 this still happens when you change the account name (and maybe more) for an AD Group. Now with the PowerShell integration it is easier than for MOSS. Why we need all those steps...

Updated 15/Dec/2010 17.15 GMT All of us expected the December CU packages this week but unfortunately or better to say fortunately the product group found a regression and cannot provide the packages today. WSS V3 Package delayed MOSS 2007 Package has...

RTL means right-to-left written languages and when you read this you will read LTR; left-to-right. SharePoint 2010 shipped a couple of Silverlight controls made with the version 3 and that is not aware of RTL so you might need to know where this could...

I got a question from a Premier Field Engineer asking me what is now the best way to patch SharePoint 2010? In this blog we read that you only need to install one package for SharePoint Server 2010 but on the TechNet site we read a different story. Example...

Last night the product group uploaded the updated packages and from now these are available. Please refer to my earlier post with all the details: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joerg_sinemus/archive/2010/10/27/sharepoint-2010-and-october-cu.aspx

The third Cumulative Update since we released the 2010 family is available. Updated 09/Nov/2010 ; not all updates are available so please check for more information the SharePoint Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/ Updated 18/Nov/2010 ; The...

Windows SharePoint Services V3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 are now be able to get updated to the latest available bits with October CU. Side Notes: The sizes of the packages are smaller than in the past (June 2010 CU and earlier). This...

For WSS V3 we created a fix so that after a security update the workflow will start automatically. With SharePoint 2010 we will have the same scenario and we will need to do the same steps we have since the fix for the earlier version. It means we need...

When you have changed a Security Group in the Active Directory you may know that there will be a need to run STSADM –o MigrateGroup to change all SharePoint related information to let them know the new “Account Name”. Same you need to do when a user changed...

In older SharePoint versions this column was linked to the document. Since SharePoint 2010 this has been removed but unfortunately not the description for the column. The Icon will still be shown as before but the click on the Icon will not open the file...

We saw a lot of discussions around the “The trial period for this product has expired”. We had two issues with that message in MSX2010 and MSF2010. Issue 1: Just a false alarm and documented here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joerg_sinemus/archive/2010/07...

Updated 02/Sep/2010 To be fully informed about all our “Office 2010 Product Family” updates please refer to this kb article: 953878    Cumulative updates are available from the Microsoft Office team to fix reported problems http://support...

Windows SharePoint Services V3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 are now be able to get updated to the latest available bits with August CU. Updated 16/Sep/2010 Side Notes: The sizes of the packages are now smaller than in the past. This is...

Nearly everything can be configured through PowerShell but not everything makes us really happy. Three Accounts are recommended: Domain\SPFarm; local Admin on the SharePoint Server Domain\SPAppPool; has “Run as service” on SharePoint Server Domain\SPDirSync;...

With our new SharePoint Server 2010 running only on 64bit and Windows 2008 (R2) we as Administrators are having something more to check than it was necessary with Windows 2003. As a Farm Administrator the login might be MyDomain\SPFarm and you are member...

We are talking very often about Views and Lists because most of the items and rows we can see are based on our List infrastructure. Our Document Library is just a List and the saved documents are just attachments to a list item. To have a look what is...

I got this information from a Beta Support Engineer and I start using the following: MSF2010 Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SPS2010 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 MSS2010 Microsoft Search Server 2010 MSX2010 Microsoft Search 2010 Express

The first cumulative update for our new SharePoint versions is available. Unfortunately we cannot offer a full-server package so more steps are needed in case you want to install all “packlets”. It is planned to have Full Server packages with August CU...

Kerberos is a very good security protocol but hard to implement because you need to have good knowledge in Active Directory and how Security works. One of my colleagues who is our SME in that area comments on this Whitepaper as follows: In my opinion...

We saw a lot of discussions in the Forums and we had an internal discussion about this message: One known large discussion thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/644ab342-4eaa-468c-95c1-f345a4f65f26/#ee349e5f...

Unfortunately the first cumulative update has been delayed. To build the CU it is a bit more complex than for the 2007er version…might be one of the reasons. Please stay tuned and I will let you know when it is available. I cannot give an estimated date...