This article describes how to install and configure Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint as a multiple server deployment and also add the same as a back-end for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.We assume that SharePoint Server 2010 is already...

Part 1 of this blog will describe ULS and Event log improvements and what you need to know. The new changes simplify troubleshooting and provide the Administrator more flexibility in managing different aspects of ULS logging. I will expand on this topic...

Developer Dashboard is a powerful troubleshooting tool which will enable engineers to perform advanced troubleshooting directly from the page that is rendering. Developer Dashboard provides a plethora of diagnostic information consolidated into sections...

This blog is intended to quickly ramp up the reader on requirements and steps to successfully provision a user profile synchronization service. User Profile Service Application setup has been one of the most problematic issues for customers so I hope...

This blog is to provide a quick ramp up on SharePoint 2010’s new Shared Service Architecture. Some new concepts are introduced and this is part 1 of a 2 part series on this topic. Part 1 is for describing the components and concepts that are behind this...

In the first part of our document on User Profile Service Application we talked about various SharePoint & Windows components involved, we talked about the Need & utility of User Profile Service Application. This is part two, which talks about...

Activity Feeds Activity Feeds are an ongoing record of a user’s activities through the day (or for whatever time period in which they choose to update the feed). There are two sections of Activity feed. · My Activities - My Profile > Recent Activities...

  As more customers adopt SharePoint 2010 and implement the various features etc, one thing that we are starting requests around is the ability to limit the number of users imported from AD based on group membership. In SharePoint 2007, this functionality...

This is part 2 of granular backup/restore nugget in which I’ll cover the Recover data from an unattached content database option in Central Administration. This is located in backup/restore section under granular backup/restore. SharePoint 2010 utilizes...

Introduction This document focuses on internals of User Profile Service application, where we have made an effort to explain what happens under the hood when we configure the service application from Central Admin Site. We wanted to post this as a single...

  There are three different ways to get colleagues added into your profile. 1. AD profile import, from Organization tab 2. Users can manually add colleagues 3. Outlook Social Connector will send colleague suggestions based on communication history...

Hello! Russ Maxwell here and I’d like to provide a glimpse into SharePoint 2010 granular backup/restore. Several things have changed and have been improved in this area. This article is specifically themed around granular backup\restore and what you need...

  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...

Importing & processing data in SQL Server Tables To completely understand the next phase of import process we must first have some additional information. There are a few stored procedures that are registered in the server’s registry that are invoked...

In SharePoint 2007 we provided an object model way of accessing the SharePoint crawl logs. We have a LogViewer class [ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.server.search.administration.logviewer(v=office.12).aspx] and a sample application...

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

User Profiles – The Idea Behind A user profile is a record in the profile database that contains property values about a person. This information can be listed, searched and displayed to other users in the organization. In SharePoint Portal Server (SPS...

  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...

Note : Support for changes to the databases that are used by Office server products and by Windows SharePoint Services Reference: Article User Profile Application is a service application that can be consumed across multiple sites and farms. We can configure...

  1.What is Blob Cache? Disk-based Caching for Binary Large Objects Disk-based caching controls caching for binary large objects (BLOBs) such as image, sound, and video files, as well as code fragments. Disk-based caching is extremely fast and eliminates...

  Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 delivers powerful intranet and people search, right out of the box. SharePoint 2010 Search helps your people find the information they need to get their jobs done. It provides intranet search, people search, and...

  The people-picker is a SharePoint interface responsible for querying repositories for identities or groups in order to grant them permission in the SharePoint application. Site administrators and other users use the People Picker Web control to...

You may experience performance issue on a SharePoint 2007 site page where it has sharepoint list library lookup column, for example there is a custom list named 'List1' with custom column 'Column1', there are around 10000 items added to this list. ...

The Part 1 of this series talks about how People Picker works under the default configuration . In this post I will focus on what changes when we have SharePoint servers in the farm & principals ( users or groups ) belong to Different Active directory...

PowerShell has been nicely integrated into SharePoint 2010 and is the eventual replacement of stsadm. Stsadm still exists with SharePoint 2010 for backward compatibility reasons but PowerShell is here to stay and will be the most widely adopted and used...