This a quick & easy one; I couldn’t find any MSFT material on how to do this as easily as I thought I might, hence this article. A simple question: how do you set a SharePoint content database to read-only? You may’ve seen the setting “Read-Only”...

Just a quick one as I had this error occur on a test environment and couldn’t find much about it online. If you get the error HTTP 403 when you try and edit a profile in My Sites (/_layouts/EditProfile.aspx?accountname=[account]") then fear not,...

What is AlwaysOn and why use it for SharePoint? AlwaysOn is a great new feature to SQL Server 2012 that allows consuming clients to have a mirroring and failover database solution all transparently for a single named instance. SharePoint is one such consumer...

Why is Multi-Subnetting Awesome? Having a SharePoint farm span across multiple subnets can improve the reliability of a SharePoint farm against networking failures. Reasons why a network could fail are mentioned below, but they are just another reason...

Yes, this has been covered already but this problem caused me real headaches on the last CU upgrade I did for my test farms and nothing I tried seemed to help. All the machines patched just fine but when it came to finishing the upgrade with the psconfig...

By this point in you should’ve seen the default form engine that SharePoint provides already and most likely you would’ve thought “not bad, but I bet it doesn’t do exactly what I want it to do”. You’d probably be right; the normal engine just tries to...

This part assumes you have done the “data” part of this workshop – here . If you haven’t, you can do similar with your own lists of course. This workshop & the one on data is also in video form - http://youtu.be/iyQmam_fvdg Reports in Excel So it...

Another integral feature in SharePoint is the “workflows” concept that has been baked into the system since ye olde times and they’re basically just data-oriented application processes that can run automatically (or manually) when data changes. Specifically...

We’ll start off by running through the very fundamentals of any application – storing data in lists, with some basic interfaces to get & set the data too. In SharePoint land, unlike SQL, we always have a basic interface to any list with the out-of...

Hello! Welcome to my blog section “SharePoint 2010 Apps for n00bs”. This mini-section is all about building SharePoint apps obviously but the bigger point is to highlight where SharePoint can be used to build your generic app with faster & better...

This has been split into multiple parts & moved to to another place . Have a picture of a sleeping Tristan instead. Zzzzz.

Time for an introduction for myself I suppose; my name’s Sam Betts, I’m an Enterprise & Developer Support engineer in Microsoft with several years of developing and/or supporting SharePoint projects and installations of both large & small scale...