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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:16 PM

My new blog location ... Introducing ‘UK SharePoint Team’ blog

After careful thought, I have decided to join forces with the rest of the SharePoint team in UK Microsoft Consulting Services to work collectively on a new team blog called UK SharePoint Team (http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint). With many people contributing
Posted by Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:29 AM

Manually configuring Search Propagation Location using STSADM

As part of a SharePoint farm configuration, you will need to setup a share on your Query servers in order for the Index Server to propagate (i.e. copy) the search indexes to the Query Servers. In Central Administration (Services on Server > Office
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Friday, July 04, 2008 11:15 AM

SharePoint Object Hierarchy: How it all fits together

I often get asked to clarify how all of the objects in SharePoint relate to each. For example, people do not always understanding the differnence between a site collection and a site or how a web application and content database relate to each other.
Posted by Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com | 7 Comments
Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:39 PM

Useful facts about SharePoint farms

I recently presented a talk at the Office Developer Conference in San Jose and I was surprised about the amount of questions we got around SharePoint server farms and topologies. Having a good understanding of what a farm is and some of the best practices
Posted by Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com | 5 Comments
Monday, January 14, 2008 5:18 PM

How to create a ‘Slipstream’ installation for MOSS with SP1

Update (8th March): The product team have now released a MOSS with SP1 download. Read all about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/07/moss-2007-with-sp1-slipstream-officeserverwithsp1-exe-released.aspx In order to install MOSS 2007
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:18 AM

Code Callout Features: How to make automated modifications to sites after they have been deployed

Ok, I'll admit that this is not the most snappily-named blog title; however it will address a specific problem that I've hit a few times at different customers; which is how to make automated modifications to sites after they have been deployed and used.
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Friday, April 27, 2007 3:58 PM

Configuring Kerberos for SharePoint 2007: Part 2 - Excel Services and SQL Analysis Services

This is the second of my several-part series on how to configure Kerberos for MOSS 2007. In the first article , I outlined the steps that are required in order to get Kerberos working for a basic MOSS installation. In this article I am going to address
Posted by Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com | 11 Comments
Monday, April 23, 2007 9:59 AM

Configuring Kerberos for SharePoint 2007: Part 1 - Base Configuration for SharePoint

(UPDATED on 04/06/07 as per feedback from two different subscribers (thank-you). Updates in Italic) (UPDATED on 20/08/07: My colleauge James World has just published an excellent article which is a kind of follow-up to this one. It goes a bit deeper on
Posted by Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com | 31 Comments
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:48 AM

How to install SharePoint Server 2007 on a single machine

One of my first ever blog articles (and by far most popular to date) was a set of instructions on how to install Beta1 of SharePoint Server 2007 on a single machine. I removed this article because it was too much of an overhead updating it with the various
Posted by Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com | 17 Comments
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:51 AM

How Groovy is Groove?

As some of you may have noticed from my lack of recent posts, I’m working on a fairly intense MOSS deployment project right now (apologies, will blog as much as I can). We are using Groove 2007 as our primary collaboration tool within the project and
Posted by Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com | 5 Comments
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:36 PM

What is the Business Data Catalogue?

..... In short, the Business Data Catalogue (BDC) is without doubt the most powerful feature in MOSS 2007! (In my opinion)..... I know this is a rather bold statement and hopefully this article will go some way to convincing you of the same! So what does
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:56 PM

MOSS Architecture and Shared Services

I have been doing some work recently on MOSS architecture for large deployments and thought that I’d share some of my findings. MOSS architecture is very similar to SharePoint 2003 in some ways but different in a few crucial areas. So what is the same?
Posted by Martin.Kearn@Microsoft.com | 37 Comments
Friday, April 21, 2006 6:32 PM

SharePoint on your Phone!

One of the interesting new features in MOSS 2007 is the support around mobile devices. In this article, I’ll aim to give you a quick overview of how you can get the next version of SharePoint on your phone. What are Mobile Views? Every list and library
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Monday, April 10, 2006 1:19 PM

How to: Install Sharepoint 2007 Beta1TR on a single machine

I have re-written this article for SharePoint Server 2007 RTM. You can see it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/03/28/how-to-install-sharepoint-server-2007-on-a-single-machine.aspx
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:50 AM

What is new with Columns?

Columns have always been one of the most powerful features in SharePoint as they allow you to slice and dice you data into different views that provide very compelling information to the end users. In MOSS 2007, columns have received a facelift and in
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