I often need to analyse SharePoint IIS logs for different purpose, mainly for capacity planning. The first step to do so (after collection the logs from the servers) is to bulk import the logs into SQL. To import the IIS logs into SQL I use the logparser...

  Microsoft just published two new training content for BI and Composites in SharePoint 2010. also don't forget to review the available content for ECM and Internet Implementers trainings. SharePoint Server 2010 Business Intelligence Training View...

(cross posting from: http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_resource_kit/archive/2011/07/12/patching-office-web-apps-to-sp1-and-june-cus-including-sharepoint-server-2010.aspx ) Here is the install order and required patches for SharePoint 2010 deployments...

Microsoft published great Office 365 Readiness and Training videos at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/office-365-jump-start-01-microsoft-office-365-overview-for-it-pros here is the list of available jump start videos: Office 365 Jump...

To check the upgrade status of your farm after applying the latest SP and CU: Get-SPProduct - this CmdLet will check the build version of the binaries on all servers in the farm PS C:\> $spprod = Get-SPProduct PS C:\> $spprod.Servers...

My colleague Kuldip Obhan and my self presented at tech.ed 2010 in Australia on lessons learned SharePoint 2010 deployments in which we focused our presentation on the following topics: Designing a large scale SharePoint 2010 deployment Identity and federation...

this script will sync the user display name from the user profile service and update the user display name on the site collection level. all it does is to trigger the timer job: <user profile service app>-ProfSync get-sptimerjob | ? {$_.Name -like...

when upgrading a 2010 Beta deployment to RC i ran into issues related to using office web apps. i had to reprovision the service applications to fix the issue. to do so, i ran the following ps script:   Get-SPServiceApplication | %{$s = “re-provision...

three new First Look demos for Microsoft Project 2010 are published now. the demo videos cover three topics: Microsoft Project 2010 Overview Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Microsoft Project Server 2010   check em out now at: http://www.microsoft...

This post shows how to add a publish command to PWA, this command will trigger a dialog box for publishing projects, the user will select the project to publish and submit. here is how it looks like: and when you click on the publish command...

A big big fan of Outlook my self, outlook by far is my number one favorite software ever! and I love outlook 2010, check out this Backstage With Office 2010 video on Outlook. cheers, - mutaz

This is one of the best innovations I’ve seen for a while!   Microsoft Maren is a Windows extension that allows users to type Arabic in Roman/Latin characters (Romanized Arabic, Arabizi, Arabish or Franco-Arabic) and have it converted on the fly...

I had a requirement to customise the CQWP in a way to display the number of replies on a discussion board item. and change the URL link of the item in CQWP to take the user to the threaded view of the discussion, rather than dispform.aspx  of the...

Search centre in SharePoint collaboration sites has built in federated search result page that pull from live search. in cases when no federated search results are displayed, or a Location not found error message appears. this could be related to proxy...

Creating a new site collection usually requires a farm admin permission level since the tools to do so are available through the central admin or by using an stsadm command line. In some cases, you want to delegate the site creation to end users (without...

this is a common DCOM error that often seen in sharepoint deployments. the error details form the application event log:   Event Type:    Error Event Source:    DCOM Event Category:    None Event ID:   ...

A newly created SSP admin with full set of permissions on BDC gets access denied messages when trying to manage existing BDC applications if the new SSP admin was created after the BDC application was imported to the SSP. To resolve this issue, go to...

was released  few weeks ago, includes a good little section on architecture decisions you often see in building a SharePoint based LOB. patterns & practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0 (The Book) - Home   - mutaz

cross posting from the Norwegian MCS IW team :   It is an pleasure to announce the first of our two new SharePoint projects on Codeplex.com: Project Description SharePoint PowerShell Deploy is a set of PowerShell files to help you build, deploy,...

The patterns and practices SharePoint Guidance is here, this guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation that is named the Contoso Training Management application...

Today i finally had a chance to look at SSRS 2008. some of the new features that i already like about it: the new tablix control: a mix of table + matrix, will let you combine both table capabilities and matrix capabilities in one grid. some...

here is a very handy registry edit that will add a "Command prompt" and "12 Folder" commands to your windows explorer contenxt menu: http://blogs.msdn.com/jb/archive/2007/09/19/12-folder-from-here.aspx . use when you want to open a command prompt on the...

Seriously, stop looking for that old email you got from a customer or a friend by navigating through your outlook folders, use search!!!! I am a big fan of desktop search technologies, I use(d) vista for long time, now i am on Windows Server 2008 with...

I kept getting this error while trying to install WSS v3/Project Server 2007 side by side on a machine running WSSv2/Project Server 2003. in this instance i was trying to install the products without upgrading WSS v2 content dbs, hence i did not run the...

the new MOSS SDK 1.4 and WSS SDK 1.4 are now released and can be downloaded here: Download the MOSS SDK 1.4 Download the WSS SDK 1.4 see the blog post of Randall Isenhour for more details on this SDK release. - mutaz