Recently I’ve had a few folks ask me how to fix missing Perfmon counters for SharePoint 2010. For various reasons, you might be missing some or all of your SharePoint related counters. The process is pretty easy. You need to use RegSvr32.exe to register...

For a server workload on Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 your power plan should be set to High Performance. The default is balanced. This change is recommend for high CPU usage scenarios to ensure equal usage across all cores. http://support.microsoft.com...

SP3 for SharePoint 2007 has been released. The October CU has been released as well. It’s a good idea to install the October CU(or later) and SP3 at the same time. More information can be found in the following articles: · Announcing Service Pack 3 for...

I’ve recently run into a scenario where I‘m having some issues using folders inside of SharePoint 2010 Document Sets. I did some digging, and it appears that we don’t support folders inside of Document Sets, even though there are ways to create them. ...

I’m sure any SharePoint administrator who supports a reasonably sized farm struggles with the idea of how to contain the massive amount of site collections in their farm. As adoption grows, the number of site collections and the amount of data keeps growing...

I just wanted to point out that the KB that details file/folder exclusions for local AV scanners has been updated. One important addition is the exclusion of the Blobcache folder for SharePoint. Review the KB to make sure you’re still in compliance. http...

Don't forget the MS SharePoint Conference is coming up soon. There's still time to register. I'll be there, so if the one person who reads my blog is in attendance, feel free to say hello.

There seems to be a little bit of confusion about what happens to your sites tables/listing of sites when you're log shipping content databases in SharePoint 2010. Let's imagine this scenario. Let's say you create a site collection in your production...

I’ve been working on a small utility to do some mass document set creation for a couple of custom content types I created that inherit from the DocumentSet content type. This is a pretty easy thing to do. You just need to call the DocumentSet.Create(...

With the release of SharePoint 2010 SP1, it’s a good idea to include SP1 into your new builds. By slipstreaming the patches in your installation folder, this process gets much easier. This process is very similar to how things worked with WSS 3.0 and...

A colleague recently ran into an issue when trying to test upgrade some content via the content DB approach. On the second attempt of attaching the same content db (after detaching it, deleting it from SQL, and copying in a new copy) they saw the following...

I recently had a customer ask me how to move their MOSS 2007 search settings like scopes, best bets, etc. to FAST for SharePoint 2010, since there is no direct upgrade path between the two products. Initially I didn’t think this was possible, until a...

Just a warning to everyone out there. RBS is a good way to keep the size of your content databases at a more manageable level. Please realize that this doesn’t get your around the 200GB limit. The content on the file share plus the content DB still needs...

There has been some confusion around whether or not you can crawl PDFs with SharePoint Foundation 2010. The answer to the question is yes, you can, without any other products. Numerous articles and blog posts say Search Server is necessary, but fortunately...

If you’re trying to work with Information Policies, and you see the following error, you need to look at the KB article linked below. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;927164 The file '/_layouts/DocumentConversionSettings.ascx' does...

For those of you using the List Web Part for Dynamics/CRM, we’ve recently updated the info on the download page to say that it is support both on SharePoint 2007 and 2010. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID...

Make sure you take some time to check out the SP 2010 developer training course on Channel 9. There’s a lot of great videos there as well as hands on labs. http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/

If you do a basic install of WSS 3.0, it installs SQL Embedded. There’s no option to remove this in Add/Remove Programs. The directions to do it can be found here. I’ve also pasted them below http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708491(WS.10)...

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The Ignite team, or whatever they’re called these days, has recently updated it’s free training. Take a look. IT Pro/Admin: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff420396.aspx Developer: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff420377.aspx

SharePoint lists have the ability to export content to Excel spreadsheets. As with any feature and multiple versions of Office, there are differences in functionality.  If you’re trying to export a list to Excel, and one of the columns has the “Allow...

With the release of SharePoint 2010, Venky and company have started a SharePoint Identity blog. There’s are a few good posts over there that talk about FBA and claims for 2010. If you need some info on those topics, check it out. SharePoint SPIdentity...

If you’ve never checked out the PAL tool, head over to http://pal.codeplex.com and check it out. It’s a tool for analyzing Perfmon data, which spits out nice reports and explanations. It’s really handy for those times when you’re not sure which counters...

For anyone planning on deploying Project Server 2010, please realize that it now requires MSS2010, in the Enterprise version specifically. The Project Server 2010 hardware and software requirements can be found here. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us...

On the TechNet page that explains your options for the STSADM Sync command , there is no explanation for the IgnoreIsActive parameter. This is what it does. The IgnoreIsActive flag allows you to choose which profiles to sync. By default, only the active...