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SharePoint 2010 In Place Records and Holds Viewer
Noorez Khamis
Body: Introduction Through my dealings with Records Management features in SharePoint 2010, I noticed there wasn’t an easy out-of-the-box way to filter to see all the declared In-Place Records and Holds across your site collection. Hence, I decided to create a tool to help Site Collection Administrators to report and be able to see them in a simple custom list. Tool Description The SharePoint 2010 In Place Records Viewer tool makes it easy for users to view all In-Place Records and Holds dec [read].
Posted: about 3 hours ago. |
Speaking at SharePoint Summit 2012 in Toronto
Noorez Khamis
Body:
The SharePoint Summit will be in Toronto, Canada from May 14 to May 16, 2012.
My session is on day 3 (Wednesday, May 16th) @ 3:00pm. I will doing a level 100 Introductory Track on “Major Intranet Trends - What are your Peers Doing for Their SharePoint Intranets?”:
“This is an introductory level session where we will be going through many of the trends seen in modern Intranets that are built on top of the SharePoint platform. The session will focus on everything from small cu [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 1st '12 |
Free Online Service to convert SharePoint CAML Queries to c#
Noorez Khamis
Body: Powered by their Codeplex project - Camlex.NET (http://camlex.codeplex.com), Alexey Sadomov and Vladimir Timashkov have released a free online service to convert your CAML Query Strings into c# code. All you have to do is type in your CAML query and it will spit out the corresponding c# lambda expression you can use in your code. Example by typing in this CAML Query:
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Hello world
.ExternalClass7EB46A467A6E446FB191420E0E206BDC .csharpcode, .ExternalClass7EB46A467 [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 12th '11 |
Use the Microsoft Virtual Academy for FREE training on SharePoint Online and Office365
Noorez Khamis
Body: The Microsoft Virtual Academy is a great resource and will help you improve your IT Skill set and help advance in your career with a free, easy to access training portal. You can learn at your own pace, focusing on Microsoft technologies, gain points and get recognition. The MVA is a free program delivering structured learning paths for IT Professionals on various Microsoft products and solutions. If you are not yet registered on Microsoft Virtual Academy, it takes only a second to do so [read].
Posted: Wed, Nov 2nd '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Standard vs Enterprise vs Foundation Edition Feature Comparison Matrix
Noorez Khamis
Body: Clients are constantly asking me on the differences between the various version of SharePoint 2010. I keep on referring them to this link by Microsoft [1]. It is nicely formatted and pretty but it still doesn’t give me a single view where you can see the differences for each version and each feature description on one page so I decided to do this myself as I did with my previous SharePoint 2007 vs SharePoint 2010 feature comparison matrix post. Enjoy! Feature Name / Area Descri [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 31st '11 |
Canadian SharePoint 2010 Journey Contest
Noorez Khamis
Body: If you are a resident of Canada or represent an organization doing business in Canada, you’re invited to share your unique story on SharePoint 2010 to win the chance of being professionally filmed and showcased on the Canadian site for Microsoft SharePoint.
Winners also get a complimentary conference pass to attend the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, California from October 3-6 2011 (a $1,199 value.)
1st prize
Your story professional filmed, plus a pass to the Mi [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 31st '11 |
First time Microsoft MVP 2011 Awardee!
Noorez Khamis
Body:
I’m happy to announce that I have been designated a Microsoft “Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) for 2011 by Microsoft in the SharePoint category. I’m honored to join the experts in the MVP community and I look forward to continue on with my contributions to the SharePoint community around the world.
You can find my MVP profile here on the MVP web site: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=4A2E0CE2-808B-44C2-81D4-6B0B6558892B
What is the Microsoft MVP award?
“The Micros [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 5th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Records Management Webinar on April 8th
Noorez Khamis
Body: For those of you have missed some of my in-person speaking engagements on Records Management in SharePoint 2010, the organizers of SharePoint Saturday Toronto have been kind enough to put together a series of live webinars, one of which I will be presenting at on April 8th, 2011 at noon EST
In this webinar, we will be reviewing strategies to maximize new SharePoint 2010 technologies to achieve records excellence in your organization. Many new out-of-the-box features have been released tha [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 30th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Resource Links Generator
Noorez Khamis
Body: Ok, so although I love almost everything about SharePoint 2010 relative to SharePoint 2007, one of the things that I don’t really like is the Central Administration home page. I just can never find the links that I constantly use quickly and I don’t find the it very user friendly in terms of logically finding what you need. This is probably due to the fact that I am so used to SharePoint 2007 Central Administration.
I know Microsoft has provided a Resources links web part which yo [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 18th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Console App or Windows Form App Error: The Web application at <url> could not be found.
Noorez Khamis
Body: A client of mine is used to building applications in Visual Studio 2010 as Console applications or Windows Forms Applications in SharePoint 2007. When they were running the application on their SharePoint 2010 Server, their application kept on getting the following error, when trying to create a new instance of SPSite:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: “The Web application at http://sharepointserver could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 16th '11 |
Optimizing Performance on Hyper-V for SharePoint
Noorez Khamis
Body: I do a lot of presentations and demos of SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 on my laptop. It is a quad-core with 10 GB ram and my SharePoint environments are a full complete installation, self-enclosed SharePoint farm with SQL Server 2008 R2 and AD Installed on it.
I’m in the process of transitioning from VMWare to HyperV on this new laptop. Really, I’m trying to give HyperV on Windows R2 a chance after not being to impressed with its performance over the last few years. I’ve [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 30th '11 |
Speaking on SharePoint 2010 Records Management at SharePoint Summit 2011 Toronto – January 31st
Noorez Khamis
Body: I have been selected to speak at SharePoint Summit 2011 Toronto on January 31st, 2011 as a member of my new company StoneShare.
My session is entitled: “Practical Records Management in SharePoint 2010”:In this session, we will be reviewing strategies to maximize new SharePoint 2010 technologies to achieve records excellence in your organization. Many new out-of-the-box features have been released that can help enterprise organizations manage their information and compliance. The new [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 10th '11 |
And the SharePoint adventure continues……
Noorez Khamis
Body: I’m proud to say that I have joined a new company called StoneShare Inc. (http://www.stoneshare.com). StoneShare is a well known and well respected consulting agency originally based in the Ottawa region whose primary focus is on SharePoint technologies and solutions. I am taking on the role of Director of SharePoint Delivery for StoneShare’s new Toronto office. I am looking forward to working with the existing pool of SharePoint experts to bring top tier solutions to the Toronto [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 10th '11 |
SharePoint 2007 Performance Optimization and Scaling Best Practices–Cheat Sheet
Noorez Khamis
Body:
I thought I would put together a quick combined list of all the items you should consider when performing a production SharePoint deployment or when trying to debug or optimize performance on a SharePoint 2007 farm. I have referenced some good blogs or articles if you would like more information on most of them. Please comment below if you have more, I will add it to my list.
RAM (16 GB+ for WFE and 32 GB+ for DB)
All 64 bit servers
Disk I/O – not only the content DB but tem [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 15th '10 |
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Toronto–November 13th
Noorez Khamis
Body:
I am speaking at SharePoint Saturday Toronto on November 13th. My session will be on Records Management targeted for SharePoint administrators and architects. Click here for more session details.
Event Description
SharePoint Saturday is a free community‐focused SharePoint event dedicated to educating and engaging members of the local technical community. SharePoint Saturday draws upon the expertise of local SharePoint IT professionals, developers and solutions architects who come [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 2nd '10 |
SharePoint Server 2010 Step by Step Small Farm 3-tier Architecture Installation Guide – Introduction
Noorez Khamis
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Posted: Mon, Jun 14th '10 |
SharePoint Server 2010 Step by Step Small Farm 3-tier Architecture Installation Guide – Instructions
Noorez Khamis
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Posted: Mon, Jun 14th '10 |
SharePoint Server 2010 Step by Step Small Farm 3-tier Architecture Installation Guide – Prerequisites
Noorez Khamis
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Posted: Mon, Jun 14th '10 |
Records Management features in SharePoint 2010: Part 11 - Virtual folders, Folder inheritance and metadata based navigation
Noorez Khamis
Body:
Overview
Metadata Inheritance
In previous versions of SharePoint, folders had no function other than to act as containers.
You couldn’t pass values to their contents or add any help to browsing and searching other than their names
In SharePoint 2010, Documents and subfolders inherit metadata from their parent folder making it easier to find documents when metadata is automatically added, instead of forcing users to add the same value over and over to the documents or list [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 6th '10 |
Can’t uninstall SharePoint 2007, Setup just quits
Noorez Khamis
Body:
Today I ran into an issue where I had SharePoint 2007 installed on one of my Windows 2008 R2 application servers and I had deleted the SharePoint Central Administration content database without disconnecting it from the farm (using the SharePoint Configuration Wizard).
I tried to disconnect from the farm but each time I ran the configuration wizard, it gave me a security issue saying that it couldn’t access the central admin content database. When I ran the uninstall, it just quit i [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10 |
SharePoint 2010 for Records Management: Strategies and Considerations Webinar
Noorez Khamis
Body: For all of you who missed my last presentation on SharePoint 2010 and Records Management, I am doing another webinar arranged by Burntsand on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:30 pm ET. This webinar will be more focused on the business side of RM and will not cover specific technical details. Here is the information if you would like to attend:
In this 45-minute webinar, Burntsand reviews strategies for maximizing SharePoint 2010 and other Microsoft technologies to achieve records excell [read].
Posted: Wed, May 19th '10 |
Records Management features in SharePoint 2010: Part 10 – Multi Level Retention
Noorez Khamis
Body: Overview Multiple stage retention policies allow specification of the entire lifecycle of a document as one policy (e.g. review Contracts every year, and delete after 7 years) Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 requiring records to be kept for a certain amount of time and you can set review periods for records in between the time they are declared and when they are destroyed SharePoint 2010 has the ability to create hierarchal folder structures and manage retention at each folder within the hi [read].
Posted: Mon, May 17th '10 |
Records Management features in SharePoint 2010: Part 9 – Content Type Publishing Hubs
Noorez Khamis
Body: Content Type Publishing Hub is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 whereby it allows a SharePoint administrator to have a central location where they can manage and publish content types from across all their SharePoint web applications Other web applications can subscribe to the content type publishing hub and pull down published content types from the hub and receive updates on the published content types Activated as a Site Collection Feature: Enable-SPFeature -id ContentTypeHub -url “ [read].
Posted: Thu, May 13th '10 |
Records Management features in SharePoint 2010: Part 8 – Hold and eDiscovery
Noorez Khamis
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New feature in SharePoint 2010 whereby the use of electronic discovery allows records managers to find and lock down content related to tracking external actions like litigation, investigation or audit
For example, if a company is sued about how they use the word “eDiscovery”, the Records Manager needs to find and process all content that contains the words “eDiscovery” or “electronic discovery”
Allows discovery of documents by all metadata associated with the docume [read].
Posted: Sun, May 9th '10 |
Records Management features in SharePoint 2010: Part 7 – Compliance Details
Noorez Khamis
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A new feature in SharePoint 2010 is that all SharePoint list items and library items now have Compliance Details settings which indicate all the important business information about the document
They are located in the ECB drop down menu (Edit Control Block)
These settings allow SharePoint administrators to ensure all information about the record in one place including:
Viewing name, content type and folder path of document
Viewing any retention policies on the document (and [read].
Posted: Sat, May 8th '10 |
Records Management features in SharePoint 2010: Part 6 – Content Organizer
Noorez Khamis
Body:
Overview
In SharePoint 2007, content organization was largely a matter of upload decisions based on the individual
Administrators could help guide, but ultimately, was up to contributors to decide where the content ended up
New Content Organizer in SharePoint 2010 allows routing decisions to be centrally organized
This feature takes the decisions out of the hands of users and ensures that items are well organized
Users are guided to enter the appropriate metadata rather than being [read].
Posted: Fri, May 7th '10 |
Records Management features in SharePoint 2010: Part 5 – Site Collection Auditing
Noorez Khamis
Body:
Overview
Configured under Site Settings --> Site collection audit settings
Ability to generate a customized audit report about an individual record, item, column, content type, search or permissions
Ability to specify events to audit such as open, edit, check out/in, move, copy, delete & restore
Predefined reports in excel format under Site Settings --> Audit log reports
Records Management Scenario(s):
Heavy audits are required on items that have bee [read].
Posted: Thu, May 6th '10 |
Records Management features in SharePoint 2010: Part 4 – In-Place Records Management
Noorez Khamis
Body:
Overview
A new capability in SharePoint 2010 is In-Place Records management
Instead of moving a document to a specific SharePoint Records Center in order to declare it a record, a document can be declared and handled as a record within site it was created in
After having declared the document as a record, the document can now have policies and restrictions different from when it was just a document in the site
Policies can be added either to the Content Types or directly on th [read].
Posted: Mon, May 3rd '10 |
Records Management features in SharePoint 2010: Part 3 – Managed Metadata Service - Term Store
Noorez Khamis
Body:
Overview
The Managed Metadata service is new in SharePoint 2010 and consists of a feature called the Term Store Management Tool
This service can be accessed via Central Administration –> Manage Service Applications –> Managed Metadata Services or via a the site settings in the SharePoint site (Site Actions –> Site Settings –> Term store management)
The Term Store (or Taxonomy Term Store) is a hierarchical collection of managed terms that you centrally managed an [read].
Posted: Sun, May 2nd '10 |
System.Security.SecurityException when trying to setup a custom ASP.NET 2.0 virtual directory application running on a SharePoint 2010 web application
Noorez Khamis
Body:
I was trying to set up a virtual directory on my SharePoint 2010 server to run a custom ASP.NET 2.0 application that was created earlier and I kept getting the following Security Exception error:
Server Error in '/MyApp Application. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Security Exception Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission ple [read].
Posted: Sat, May 1st '10 |
Records Management features in SharePoint 2010: Part 2 – Document IDs
Noorez Khamis
Body:
Overview
A Document ID is a unique identifier for a document within a SharePoint 2010 site collection
SharePoint 2010 now provides a static URL or permalink that opens the document associated with the ID, regardless of the location
SharePoint 2010 includes new Site Collection scoped Feature called the Document ID Service. To enable feature you can go to Site Settings --> Site Collection Features or you can launch the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and run the following:
[read].
Posted: Sat, May 1st '10 |
Records Management features in SharePoint 2010: Part 1 - Introduction
Noorez Khamis
Body: As I’m doing a MSPUG session on Records Management this upcoming Tuesday, I thought I’d start a series of blogs on a preview of some of the new Records Management features in SharePoint 2010 that I’m going to be presenting.
To start with, I was able to pull up some statistics from the Association for Information and Image Management (http://www.aiim.org) on Records Management trends and industries [1].
Trends in Records Management
Paper records are still increasing in majority [read].
Posted: Sat, May 1st '10 |
“You are not authorized to view this page” error after reinstalling .NET frameworks
Noorez Khamis
Body:
In my Windows 2003 server SharePoint environment, I had the dreaded task of reinstalling all of my .NET frameworks (don’t ask why). After uninstalling and reinstalling all of the .NET Frameworks (2.0, 3.0 and 3.5), I kept getting an unauthorized page for my .NET web applications that had Windows Authentication enabled (specifically SharePoint 2007):
The error I was getting was:
“You are not authorized to view this page You might not have permission to view this directory or pa [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 29th '10 |
Error when creating new SharePoint 2010 Synchronization Connection: “MOSS MA not found”
Noorez Khamis
Body:
If you are trying to configure a new synchronization connection in your SharePoint 2010 environment and you get the error:
“MOSS MA not found.”
Check that the Forefront Identity Manager Service is started in your services.msc (not sure why mine wasn’t started automatically).
But once I started it, I was able to create the connection with no problems although there seems to be an encoding problem on the Name when it lists the connections:
Technorati Tags: SharePoint 201 [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 29th '10 |
SharePoint Designer 2010 Error - “Master page editing has been disabled for this site”
Noorez Khamis
Body:
By default in SharePoint Foundation 2010, site owners and designers don’t have access to edit the master pages for sites. You get the following error when you try to open the site in SharePoint Designer 2010 and try to edit the master page:
“Master page editing has been disabled for this site. Contact the site collection administrator to request permission.”
In order to allow this, a site collection administrator should go to the top level site settings by going to Site Act [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 27th '10 |
Error after clicking on User Profile Service Application in SharePoint 2010 - UserProfileServiceUserStatisticsWebPart:LoadControl failed
Noorez Khamis
Body:
If, after provisioning and starting the User Profile Synchronization Service:
You click on User Profile Service Application:
And you get an unidentified error, and when you look in the logs they look something like this:
04/26/2010 22:03:09.36 w3wp.exe (0x0EA8) 0x0EB0 SharePoint Portal Server User Profiles et8j High UserProfileServiceUse [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 26th '10 |
Speaking at Mississauga SharePoint User Group on May 4th on SharePoint 2010 Records Management
Noorez Khamis
Body:
Hey everyone, I will be facilitating a session on SharePoint 2010 Records Management features at the Mississauga SharePoint User Group on May 4th. Be sure to come, it will be fun!
Brief below:
Records Management is a focus for almost every established organization in the world. Many of these organizations (especially those that have strict information governance requirements) need innovative solutions and features to help with their internal Records Management strategy. More [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 14th '10 |
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