One of the most talked about capabilities since the launch of SharePoint 2010 is the Managed Metadata Service .  For those of you who aren’t already familiar with this service and the support it provides for modelling and deploying a rich...

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Pre-requisite: These are few steps to be done prior to getting the User Profiles provisioned. Understand the new User Profiles architecture in SharePoint 2010. Few good articles are http://technet.microsoft.com...

  Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang You create a new User Profile Service Application and try browsing to the Manage link for the User Profile Service Application, this page might fail with the following error, If you filter on the “User Profiles...

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization has undergone a major architectural change. I have attached few articles below which explain this in more details. Now back to upgrade considerations, one of the major...

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Applies to SharePoint 2010 In SharePoint 2007 (MOSS v3) we have an option in the Office Server Search User Interface to configure a specific Web Front End as the server to be used for crawling. This functionality...

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Applies to SharePoint 2007 I had installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (SP2 + Oct CU) on a Windows 2008 Server with IIS 7. I then tried to create a Content Deployment Path on the server. 1. Browse to...

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Applies to SharePoint 2007 While running content deployment import job on destination farm, you get the following warning message and the import job completes successfully. This message would appear when trying...

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Applies to SharePoint 2007 While running content deployment import job on destination farm, you get the following error message and the import job fails. This message would appear when trying to import a User....

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang You might face a peculiar problem when you implement the custom dictionary functionality in SharePoint. This functionality is documented under "Plan dictionary customizations" section of article http...

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Recently I researched on case where the SharePoint Service Pack 2 upgrade failed with the following exception. [SPIisWebSiteWssSequence] [ERROR] [7/18/2009 11:13:56 PM]: Action 3.1.3.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade...

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang I had few thousand user profiles in my SharePoint 2007 SSP and needed to delete them. So here is a script that lists all the user profiles in an SSP. If you need to remove the user profiles, then just use the UserProfileManager...

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Sample script to delete all items from a List in SharePoint 2007 ################################################################################################### [System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft...

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang   There have been many instances where we find users have added too many individual user accounts to a specific SharePoint group. This causes many issues like search failing, performance issues, etc. ################################################################################################################...

Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Worked on an interesting case the other day. The customer had a variation enabled SharePoint site with multiple sites for different languages. He would export one of the language based site and sends it to the...

  Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang When you do a people search on SharePoint, you see the results in the "Results by Social Distance" view. The other view to choose is "View by Relevance".     In case you find...

  Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang If you apply the Obsidian Theme to your MySite, the Colleague tracker webpart might show some blank rows! It will look something like this,     On investigating further by selecting that area using...

  Moved from http://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang What this blog describes is the steps you need to get SharePoint to crawl a Forms based Authentication site. What are the issues you may face and how to resolve them. Requirements: Microsoft Office SharePoint...