Recently I had worked with my customer to setup a new SharePoint farm with pre-created (DBA created) databases. Concept and prerequisites are very well documented in this TechNet article . While testing the deployment what really matters were the creation...

Here is my first blog after a long vacation back from my hometown in India. Tomorrow is a special day as Hurricane Sandy is going to hit my area ( Edison, NJ) , so writing this post tonight itself :) There are many articles out in web provides the details...

Recently I have involved in an interesting troubleshooting issue. There are many blog posts and TechNet discussions about this error. Thought that to post it here about my experience. Here is the scenario. Customer has two Windows 2008 R2 Std machines...

In my previous blog post , I have introduced my SharePoint 2013 farm server details. I have total four virtual machines configured. litdc, litsp1, litsp3 & litsql1. Note: this is written for SharePoint 2013 Preview. Things might change over the next...

Though this topic is very simple and highly recommended approach in the enterprise deployments, I have seen many deployments which are not following this approach. E.g.: Using SQL client alias for SharePoint installations will be really useful if you...

So what these health analyzer rules are reporting about ? “ The State Service Delete Expired Sessions timer job is not enabled ” and “ Expired sessions are not being deleted from the ASP.NET Session State database ” . Both are talking about expired sessions...

After installing and configuring office web apps in my customer’s environment we faced an interesting issue related to Excel Service Application. Issue was the application pool used for the excel service application was crashing in every few seconds...

Here is short detail of a SSRS related issue that I had recently worked on. While rendering the SSRS reports in a project server site we were getting the below JS error. Message: Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException: The message received...

Recently I was working on an upgrade project, MOSS 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010 and faced an interesting issue. We had several databases with sizes spans from 50 GB – 200 GB in size.  After the upgrade we have noticed that all of the upgraded databases...

You might have seen the similar script in other blogs for migrating users / groups. Here is my contribution for the same requirement. You can use this script for migrating bulk AD users and AD groups in a single shot. I  have created this script...

  Happy New Year – 2012 Recently I had worked with my good friend Bobby on a special requirement for one of his customers. Customer has a SharePoint web application created in the default zone enabled with SSL and the same web application was published...

Overview The SharePoint Code Review is a new service offering from Premier Field Engineering , it provides a detailed look at specific components of your SharePoint custom solution’s source code and makes appropriate recommendations of any issues...

Once we develop any BI applications using PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint we can develop and publich dashobarods, KPIs etc from a client machine using DashBoard Designer. But how can we implement a proper development environment and an integration...

If you ever try to import PerformancePoint content using DashBoard designer and if you are not able to see any content imported or if it errored out then, check the SharePoint server's application event log which is running the PerformancePoint Service...

Recently one of my colleagues faced an issue with LINQ to WebPart while executing the code with elevated permission. It was a WebPart using LINQ to query a list called “Announcements” for which the currently logged on user does not (and should...

In SharePoint 2010 if you want to play with the theme via code it is different than the way it was in MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0. We have to use Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.ThmxTheme class. In this post I will show how we can retrieve all themes for a particular...

Time to patch up…   Aug CU 2010 released, it is very simplified form this time than the June CU 2010. There are full packages available for each product. Check our KB articles for getting more information about what are the fixes available and the...

In this post I am going to walkthrough how we can install language packs on SharePoint Server 2010 to enable the multilingual support. There are excellent TechNet articles available with the details of planning, deployment etc, I will list out most of...

Here is a list of issues and resolutions that I have faced while setting up and configuring SharePoint 2010 environment in different customer environments. Issue 1 : While trying to a create a SharePoint website based on “Business Intelligence” site template...

I was testing SharePoint search feature in my lab machine and found that once I enable anonymous access on my web application and once I search for keyword it was not displaying any content. Instead it gives a message: "We did not find any results...

Recently I was working with a customer to setup their SharePoint 2010 environment and configure user profile service. We have created the service application and both user profile and synch service started successfully. After staring the profile synch...

Recently I had faced an issue with BCS, MetaData and Access Services in my SharePoint environment. Those are the only services that I have checked and not sure about other services, but a single point resolution resolved all those issues. Issue with BCS...

Here is a sample script for writing your custom entries into ULS log. In WSS 3.0 it was little difficult as there was no any direct APIs to do it like in MOSS. But in 2010 version, SharePoint Foundation (WSS 4.0) also has this facility. C# using System;...

Recently I have installed SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7 Enterprise edition in my laptop. It is really really cool, you really love it because while working we won’t feel that we are working in server box like in Windows 2003 / 2008 server , because...

If you want to get the default page of a publishing template based sites (or any sites which are enabled publishing features), then can directly get it from the PublishingWeb.DefaultPage Property. But, there is no a direct property or method to get the...