Moving SharePoint sites off the system drive – changing IIS virtual directories
A good practice is to move IIS off the system drive to another such as D: Ok, so you tell your Server guys but they miss out on an important step such as updating the registry to the new D:\inetpub… location. You dont check this since you think they know what they are doing and [...]
SharePoint 2010 database maintenance
This is a reminder for SharePoint Admins, DBAs and Developers to ensure that they have taken the necessary steps recommended by Microsoft when it comes down to SharePoint 2010 database maintenance. A few years ago, I posted out a similar ‘reminder’ for SharePoint (MOSS) 2007. http://www.jeremytaylor.net/2009/09/07/sharepoint-database-maintenance More recently, last year, Microsoft (Bill Baer and Bryan Porter) published [...]
SharePoint Diagnostic Studio 2010
When troubleshooting SharePoint 2010 issues, you often find the need to have a tool that can give you performance, availability and usage metrics over a period of time across the farm. One such tool is Microsoft’s SharePoint Diagnostic Studio 2010 that comes free as part of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v2.0. Download here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=20022
Getting started with PowerPivot for Excel in SharePoint 2010
PowerPivot (previously known as Project Gemini) is a Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) solution, allowing business management and decision makers to collect and present business data in Excel or web based via SharePoint. Many business executives have the capability to harness PowerPivot for Excel 2010 or SharePoint 2010 as they already either have the platforms in place [...]
SharePoint 2010 Site Collection size and email it via PowerShell script
I was asked to generate a list of SharePoint sites and their sizes via powershell and notify certain people via email. Here is some powershell that generates a html file with all the site collections in your farm and the sizes in MB and then emails it off to different people. Unfortunately, at this point [...]
Finally a custom SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Database Name switch!
I was keen from Day 1 to install SharePoint 2010 WITHOUT the GUIDs in the database names for the farm and service applications! That was possible through PowerShell but with the exception of ONE Service Application database – PerformancePoint! Good news is that since SharePoint 2010 SP1 we now have a ‘DatabaseName’ switch parameter when creating [...]
Project Server 2010 Planning design and deployment video training
For those who are visually inclined and prefer webcasts, here is an awesome Project Server 2010 training for designing, planning a Project Server 2010 deployment. http://cdn-smooth.ms-studiosmedia.com/msstudios/1005/1003463/Mod_2_Planning_Design_and_Deployment/Default.html More videos: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/showcase/channeldetails.aspx?channelid=microsoftproject
Download the SharePoint 2010, FAST, Office Web Apps, Project Server 2010 virtual machine vhd with SP1
If you are looking to have a play around with SharePoint 2010 server with Office Web apps, FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 and maybe a Project server 2010 – all with SP1, WITHOUT having to install all of these from scratch, then this is for you…
Uninstall Office Web Apps on SharePoint 2010? NO! Deactivate it
Have you installed Office Web Apps on your SharePoint 2010 production farm? If yes, then you have just married Office Web Apps with SharePoint 2010 for the rest of their lives (well almost!). Microsoft states that Office Web Apps and SharePoint 2010 are ‘tightly integrated’ and thats absolutely right! Problem: Its so tightly integrated that [...]
How to migrate List Workflows
If you ever come across a situation where you have to do a migration and need to migrate ‘List Workflows’ created in SharePoint Designer, then there is a way! I found a great article online.. Basically, you have to create a new dummy List workflow without any steps in the new (destination) site, then ‘export [...]