I often get this question so thought will document this for easier reference:   What is SkyDrive Pro? – its your My Site in SharePoint 2013. What is SkyDrive Pro client then? – its a Client for Syncing your My Site content on your client machine...

If you don’t like the GUID that trails the Central Admin Content DB, you have 2 options, create the Farm with PowerShell / scripting and create the databases with names that you like OR if you already have a Farm, you can use the scripts below to...

How about getting rid of all those Backups that has failed? They are just sitting there doing nothing useful anyway. Here is what my Backup and Restore History page looks like… What this gives me is a bunch of SPHistoryObject that have failed: $xmldata...

SharePoint 2010 out-of-the-box doesn’t have the capability of scheduling a backup. Fortunately, we have the mix of PowerShell script and Windows Task Scheduler to do the job. In reality it’s just a single line script: Backup-SPFarm –Directory...

The steps haven't changed since SharePoint 2010, so I am not going to bore you with how to create an External List that will Sync with Outlook, but something to keep in mind while configuring this, you need to manually enable a feature in SharePoint 2013...

For the kind of work I do, I have to create same kind of VM’s very frequently.. sometimes multiple times in a day. So I thought will automate the process and wrote a sample script… hope this helps.   Background I am using Differencing Disks – the...

A great resource for comparing various feature of SharePoint Online VS On-Premise and between various Office 365 SKU’s and various SharePoint Online Plans - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819267.aspx   This is one the best comparison...

So here is a very common requirement – You have Excel Services connecting to a Cube and its working great in your network. Now you want to publish it to over the internet so that your Customers can access it. You want to ensure that your Cube Security...

I have heard some confusions on this recently and wanted to post this for generic reference. You can install SharePoint 2007 connecting to SQL 2008 R2 as long as you have SP2 for SharePoint 2007 or later CU installed. Ref: (scroll down to software...

I am sure you have seen enough blog posts on this and so I thought will add one more to the ever growing list!! So for last few days I have been working with one my my colleagues to install and Configure Enterprise Portal (AX 2009) with SharePoint...

If you are a Microsoft Partner (or even a customer) and want to demo / Test  a SharePoint Solution and don't want to spend days configuring your demo environment use the ready made VHD’s below: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID...

Check out the version comparison at: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/product/Pages/Features.aspx http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Editions-Comparison.aspx   This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers...

Ok, so i just finished configuring Remote Blob Storage with FILESTREAM for SharePoint Foundation. I hit a few glitches hence thought I will share the steps with you. First, why RBS?? For all of you guys who has WSS 3.0 running on Windows Internal Database...

I just started an install of SharePoint Foundation and while running PSCONFIG hit an error stating that the SQL Server version 10.0.2531.0 is unsupported. Upon further investigation, I found out a rookie mistake:). My SQL 2008 was running SP1, however...

That’s right. It’s not a typo!! SharePoint Foundation 2010 now allows Business Connectivity Services that runs on BDC Technology. Read it yourself at - http://office2010.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-foundation-help/what-s-new-in-microsoft-sharepoint...

SharePoint 2010 is now available as a public beta.. visit the links below and download them today!! Microsoft SharePoint Server Enterprise 2010 Beta - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3ed6e43b-22da-4021-8e90...

No this blog is not dead… i must admit I was involved with wide variety of things and honestly speaking didn't had any spare time to Blog…. its a lame excuse .. I know :-). However, I did explore a lot of stuff and learnt a lot as well.. i will be posting...

One of the common business requirements is to have a custom name for the Admin Content (Central Administration) Database. There are two ways to achieve that. One is to choose the custom name while installation and the second way is to rename the databases...

Today morning i was working with a SSIS package and came across this error while running the package through a SQL Agent Job on a 64 Bit WIn SRV 08 running SQL 08 SP1. A little more about my dev environment: My Dev machine is running a 64 bit Win 7 RC...

A question on everyone's mind now!! The answer – No You don't. SP2 has the following inbuilt:-) This service pack includes the following updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: · Service Pack 1 · Infrastructure Update...

If you haven't read it yet there is a nice document posted here that has overall view of the great enhancements made in SP2. For your convenience the extract of the document is below…   Performance and Availability Improvements Windows SharePoint...

The long awaited SP2 for MOSS and WSS is here!! Download them from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b7816d90-5fc6-4347-89b0-a80deb27a082   Description is available here - http://support.microsoft.com...

Recently I am working on a project where i am using SCE 2007 to monitor MOSS. Yesterday my DC crashed while merging snapshots and hence i had to start all over again. I was about to install SCE when it came up with a error that said SCE is already setup...

Recently I was working on a project and preparing a Lab environment. The goal was to install and configure MOSS on Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 and monitor it with SCE. Since I faced some roadblocks while trying to install and configure SCE on a Win 08 VM...

I get this question quite often and frankly speaking there is no one way of doing it. This is what I do in my environment....   Note: this process can also be followed in case of Migrating the MOSS farm from 1 server to another. Of coarse you can...