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Configurable policy settings for user profile properties
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Each user profile in SharePoint Server 2010 contains 46 default user profile properties. These user profile properties store information about a user. An administrator can apply a policy to a user profile property to configure how personal information is used. Depending on the selected user profile property, some policy settings are configurable, while others are not.
For more information about user profiles and profile properties, see the following articles on TechNet:
Plan for user profiles [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 1st '12 |
How does Microsoft IT do it? Check out these IT Showcase resources for SharePoint Server 2010
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One common question we get from customers who are evaluating SharePoint Server 2010 or a specific SharePoint scenario is: “How did someone else do it?” Or, more specifically: “How did Microsoft IT do it?”
Fortunately, Microsoft IT documents and publishes a set of resources known as Microsoft IT Showcase, which describes how they designed and deployed various Microsoft technologies and products. These resources include Webcasts, TechNet Edge videos, and Qui [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 23rd '12 |
Fabulous SQL Server connection troubleshooting article in the TechNet Wiki!
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Check out How to Troubleshoot Connecting to the SQL Server Database Engine in the TechNet Wiki. Author Rick Byman takes you step-by-step though the troubleshooting process when you get the “Connect to Server” error. I strongly encourage you to bookmark this article and use it for the next time you see this type of error. Additionally, because it is a TechNet Wiki article, all it takes is a Windows Live ID and you can add to it and improve it based on your experiences.
This ar [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 12th '12 |
Windows PowerShell Script: Download SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites
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This is the first in a new series of posts that puts the spotlight on Windows PowerShell scripts for SharePoint 2010 Products that are stored in the TechNet Gallery. In each post, we will describe a script’s functionality and use and look under the hood at specific Windows PowerShell programming techniques that you can learn for your own scripts.
Download SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites The Download SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites Windows PowerShell script (http://gallery.technet.microsof [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 19th '11 |
Extra! Extra! Apple iPad Users Can Now View SharePoint Business Intelligence Content
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In the recent blog post, December 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 has been released, Senior Escalation Engineer for SharePoint Stefan Goßner provides an overview of Cumulative Update 2011-12 (CU 2011-12) for SharePoint Server 2010 (thanks, Stefan!).
For SharePoint business intelligence users, CU 2011-12 for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is particularly exciting because it opens the door for people to get business intelligence content on Apple iPad devices. People can now view Performanc [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 14th '11 |
Upgrade – how can we help you get started?
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Hi – SharePoint Server 2010 has been out for over a year, and many of you have upgraded to take advantage of the new user interface, ease of administration, and new features. But many organizations are still evaluating whether and when to upgrade. We’d like to get a little information from those of you who haven’t yet upgraded to find out how we can help. We’re conducting an informal e-mail survey to collect data and figure out how we can help make upgrade a little easier for you. Just [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 7th '11 |
Feature Pack 1 for Duet Enterprise is available
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Feature Pack 1 for Duet Enterprise is available for download. Feature Pack 1 adds the following solutions to Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP.
Aggregated Business Calendar
User profile-based List Forms
Note that you can choose to install either of these solutions or both of them.
To get Feature Pack 1, do the following:
Go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/default.aspx. Make sure you’re signed in to your MSDN subscriber account.
In the menu, click Subscriber [read].
Posted: Wed, Dec 7th '11 |
Tip: Take a moment to rename databases during a database attach upgrade
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SharePoint Products automatically generate GUID-based database names when databases are created, such as WSS_Content_ 2a24a7ecde1744d4823e31d77b266653. When you're ready to upgrade, if you don’t have a handy farm inventory, it can take a little time and research to identify each database and map them to your Web applications and site collections. It sure would make farm management a bit easier if the database names actually meant something that you could more easily identify. Why not take a li [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 29th '11 |
Thoughts on User Adoption and Governance from the SharePoint Conference 2011
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Did you know that there were 22 sessions at the SharePoint Conference devoted to governance? Me either, until I started building my schedule and found that there were way more talks than I could possibly attend. I did manage to catch three of the governance sessions, one each on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and found a couple of common themes to mull over about user adoption and governance that I thought I’d share with all of you. Here are the specifics about the talks I attended: SPC29 [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 18th '11 |
Hybrid SharePoint Environments Whitepaper and Windows PowerShell Command Builder
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Our teams recently worked with our partners in SharePoint Product Management to publish two new content offerings that were announced earlier at SharePoint Conference this week.
One of them is a whitepaper called Hybrid SharePoint Environments with Office 365.
Download the whitepaper here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27580
For more information, this post "Guidance to Move to the Cloud on Your Terms" on the SharePoint Team blog gives a good overview.
He [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 6th '11 |
Meet SharePoint Content Publishers at SharePoint Conference 2011
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It’s a great week for a SharePoint Conference!
Several members of the Microsoft SharePoint and Office technical documentation teams are in Anaheim, CA this week and we are all hoping to connect with conference attendees and talk about the content we produce on TechNet, MSDN and Office.com.
If you are an attendee, we’d love to give you tours of our SharePoint content for IT Professionals, Developers, and End Users – just in case you weren’t aware of the vas [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 4th '11 |
SharePoint content tour: key SharePoint resources on TechNet, MSDN, and Office.com
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Recently, I had the opportunity to present to the Puget Sound SharePoint Users Group about our SharePoint content. We often get questions about how to learn about the product, where to find the best information, and how to give us feedback. Not surprisingly, some of the things that we think of as obvious are not always so obvious to others, just like any field where you are close to the action. That’s why we find it so helpful to get away from our desks and talk to you directly (or rea [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 30th '11 |
Request a SharePoint Design Time Session at SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim
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If you are a SharePoint Conference 2011 registered attendee, the Microsoft SharePoint documentation teams are offering a limited number of dedicated solution-design sessions for individual customers that are not currently engaged with Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). These sessions are intended to help IT professionals envision and plan a solution based on the 2010 family of SharePoint products and technologies.
Sessions will last 60 minutes. If you are selected, you will meet with one or mo [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 25th '11 |
Use Excel and PowerPivot for Excel to analyze SQL Server Analysis Services data
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Analyzing data that you import from an external source such as SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) can be complicated. The Microsoft TechNet article, Analyze data from SQL Server Analysis Services explains how to use Excel or PowerPivot for Excel to analyze this data.
This newly published article includes three sections:
Analyzing data in Excel 2010
This section illustrates how to create an Office Data Connection (ODC) file to store the connection string and then how to use the ODC file to impo [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 22nd '11 |
Troubleshooting resources for SharePoint Server 2010
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This post provides tools, techniques, and links to other resources that can assist you in troubleshooting issues you might encounter with SharePoint Server 2010.
Universal Logging System (ULS) logs
One of the most helpful tools for troubleshooting problems with SharePoint Server 2010 is the Universal Logging System (ULS) logs. You can use data from the ULS logs in SharePoint Server 2010 to troubleshoot problems in the farm. The ULS log can collect data at varying levels depending upon the loggin [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 4th '11 |
New SharePoint Training Courses: Enterprise Content Management and Web Content Management
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We have just published two comprehensive training courses on TechNet.
SharePoint Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Implementers Course View the course: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepoint/hh126808
15 modules
42 video lessons - streaming and downloadable
Downloadable lab manuals that were used with virtual labs during the original instructor-led, five-day training course
"Test Your Skills" quizzes for each module
SharePoint for Internet Sites Implementers Course (Web Content Manage [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 1st '11 |
Excel Services Data Refresh Flowchart: What is going on behind the scenes
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Correctly configuring the data refresh in Excel Services can be challenging. You need to make sure that Excel Services data is available to only those authorized while ensuring an incident free refresh of the data when opening a workbook.
It is helpful to know what is going on behind the scenes in Excel Services at each decision point. Each path leads to a choice. How are you authenticating? Are you using Windows or SharePoint Secure Store? Does an ODC exist? Is it in a trusted location?
Sev [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 29th '11 |
Export your own TechNet book
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You can now build your own book of TechNet articles! For several product versions, the SharePoint IT Pro content team has published collections of TechNet articles as downloadable books that you can read offline and print. We've been able to cover only the most basic content sets. Each SharePoint Server or SharePoint Foundation environment is different, and none of the basic books exactly matches any environment.
Happily, our partners at TechNet have introduced a beta release of a new feature th [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 27th '11 |
Book: How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of ‘Intangibles’ in Business and SharePoint Server 2010
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Douglas W. Hubbard wrote a popular book on management and performance measurement, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of ‘Intangibles’ in Business
Hubbard begins the book this way, expressing the value of measuring anything. He says, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind…”. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 18th '11 |
SP1 updates for SharePoint Workspace 2010
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SharePoint Workspace capacity limits have increased for SP1. The approximate upper limit for documents that can be stored in the Ofice Document Cache before you can start to see significant impact on memory and performance, has changed from approximately 1,800 to 10,000 documents, depending on file size, type, and contents.
And, an update has been applied to Alternate Access Mapping handling as well.
For details, see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee649106.aspx [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 15th '11 |
New videos show how to do a database attach upgrade
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The process for performing a database attach upgrade can seem complicated. We thought it might be nice to give you a visual overview of the process and demonstrate the steps involved in video format. Two new videos can help you understand and visualize the process for performing the following tasks: Use read-only databases during a database attach upgrade (Running time: 7:35) This video contains an overview of the process, the steps to set a database to read-only, and the steps to back [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 11th '11 |
New ebooks: Getting Started
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Thank you for your input on my previous blog post about e-reader formats.
Two of our downloadable books are now available as .mobi and .epub files, the most requested formats. Click the following links to go to the main download page, and then click Download next to the format of your choice.
Getting Started with SharePoint Server 2010
Getting Started with SharePoint Foundation 2010
The easiest way to get the books to your e-reader is probably to use the USB cable to transfer the files from your [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 6th '11 |
The City of London School for Girls makes life easier with SharePoint and their MIS system
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Theresa Clifford at cScape describes the City of London School for Girls as a prestigious, high-achieving, and independent school situated in the heart of London’s financial district. The SharePoint solution that cScape, led by MVP Ben Robb, helped the school design and implement lives up to the school’s reputation in many ways.
Theresa Clifford (Sales and Marketing Director, cScape) and Ben Robb (CTO, cScape)
The school is owned by the City of London, which recently redeve [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 5th '11 |
Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 Products Documentation
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After months of planning and hard work, Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 Products is live and available for download. Service Pack 1 provides additional functionality and specific fixes, such as the ability to recover site collections and sites from the Recycle Bin, granular management and insight into storage using StorMan.aspx (Storage Space Allocation), and many others.
The SharePoint documentation team has published new and updated articles that were available as of June 28. For more infor [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 29th '11 |
Sandboxed solutions: Introducing tiers and resource points
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I recently updated our documentation about sandboxed solutions to include new information about tiers and resource points. This blog post briefly describes these two new concepts, and includes links to new and updated articles that contain more information.
Tiers
Tiers in the sandboxed solutions service provide a way to group sandboxed solutions together, based on how well (or poorly) they behave. You can have more than one tier inside the sandboxed solutions service (there is automatically one, [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 27th '11 |
Just Released – Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010
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Hi – the Best Practices articles and the Best Practices Resource Center for 2007 were some of our most popular content for that release. We’re pleased to announce that we now have a 2010 version of the Best Practices Resource Center. Like in 2007, this was a joint effort between the SharePoint Customer Engineering team and Microsoft Consulting Services team for SharePoint. They drew on real customer experiences to help us bring you a set of guidelines that lay out the best pr [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 17th '11 |
Take advantage of SharePoint Server 2010 search capabilities from SharePoint Server 2007 by doing a search-first migration
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Upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 from SharePoint Server 2007 provides significant enhancements in enterprise search capability. This includes many improvements for end users when they issue search queries and view search results. You can find a summary of these enhancements in What's new in enterprise search (SharePoint Server 2010).
However, due to policy or resource constraints, organizations sometimes aren't in a position to complete an upgrade all at once. If this sounds like [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 8th '11 |
How Microsoft IT does Business Intelligence: Microsoft IT & CIO Office Scorecards
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Whether you are starting a new BI effort or updating existing processes, it is always helpful to see how other companies implement their Business Intelligence solutions.
In the Microsoft IT Showcase video, Microsoft IT CIO Office Scorecards – Delivering Dashboards from KPI Catalog to the Masses, Microsoft IT demonstrate how it manages and delivers scorecards to the masses at Microsoft. The video is particularly instructive because it uses many components of the Microsoft BI stack inclu [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 6th '11 |
Coordinating URLs with AAM and DNS
To The SharePoint
Mark Arend, Senior Consultant, raised several good questions about coordinating URLs with alternate access mappings and DNS:
How do you configure alternate access mappings for single-name URLs, such as http://fabrikam?
How do you coordinate load-balanced access to Web applications that are extended with multiple zones, such as http://partnerweb and https://remotepartnerweb.fabrikam.com
Configuring alternate access mappings can be tricky. After some research and consulting with our astute test [read].
Posted: Wed, May 25th '11 |
Something cloudy this way comes ... and it has a silver lining
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The cloud.
Love it or hate it, everyone is talking about it here in Atlanta at TechEd 2011.
I've attended several birds-of-a-feather, breakout, and training sessions over the last two days and I've talked with many customers regarding the cloud, the Microsoft Cloud, cloud computing in general, and other cloud computing offerings from competing companies. In the course of these discussions several customer comments have stood out:
The cloud has amazing potential.
The cloud is nothing more than a [read].
Posted: Wed, May 18th '11 |
I've got Georgia (plus SharePoint, BI, and scenarios) on my mind ...
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Hal Zucati here for SharePoint IT Pro UA.
It's Tuesday here in Atlanta and I wanted to give you a brief recap of the conversations I've had with customers here at TechEd 2011.
I talked with close to 30 people yesterday on the subjects of SharePoint, Business Intelligence, and what the word "scenario" meant to them.
SharePoint
"Very useful tool, instrumental in providing the features and functionality required to allow business to grow."
"Works better than my car, and I drive a Porsche."
"After [read].
Posted: Tue, May 17th '11 |
Greetings from Atlanta, GA: TechEd North America 2011
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Several of us from Microsoft SharePoint Content Publishing are attending and working at TechEd North America 2011 this week.
We'd love to meet up with SharePoint subject-matter experts, customers, and enthusiasts to hear your stories, content needs, and feedback.
Let us know what we can do with our content to make things easier for you and your SharePoint customers. We publish SharePoint content on TechNet for IT Professionals as well as on Office.com for Information Worker (IW) end users.
Some [read].
Posted: Mon, May 16th '11 |
End of License for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search
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For any customers who might be using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search, this is a reminder that in 2008, it was replaced with Microsoft Search Server 2008. At that time, Microsoft discontinued support for Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search. This is especially important to note if you plan to install Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SharePoint Products and Technologies on a server that is running Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search. This can cause Office SharePoint Server 2007 [read].
Posted: Mon, May 2nd '11 |
Using the right syntax when publishing Access macros to Web databases
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Macros play a much bigger role in Access 2010 than in previous versions. In fact, using a macro is the only way to automate tasks in Web objects and in applications that you publish to Access Services.
One area that has caused confusion involves using the correct syntax in a macro.
First of all, there are two classes of macro arguments, each of which requires very different syntax.
The first class of macro argument is a string. An example is the Message argument of the MessageBox macro action. [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 25th '11 |
Decipher the Secure Store Service for Excel Services 2010
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Creating and configuring the Secure Store Service for Excel Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is often a complicated process. I’ve recently revised the Configure Secure Store Service for Excel Services (SharePoint Server 2010) article on TechNet to provide an easier administrative experience for this process.
In Excel Services 2010, the Secure Store Service is required anytime you connect to and use an external data source. Keep in mind that the Secure Store Service is one o [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 12th '11 |
Video: MVP 2011 Global Summit Interviews, Question 3
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Recently, we attended the 2011 MVP Global Summit in Redmond, Washington. We interviewed and filmed any MVPs who wanted to give feedback on Microsoft TechNet, MSDN, and Office.com online product documentation.
This is the third of three videos that we produced where we asked questions about our documentation. In this video, we asked the MVPs the following question:
What are two ways that Microsoft could improve its online documentation on TechNet, MSDN, or Office.com?
The MVPs we interviewed pro [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 31st '11 |
SharePoint documentation as e-books: tell us what you think
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We’ve been hearing from some of you at conferences and in email that you want to be able to take TechNet content offline on your e-readers (Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, and so on). We’re starting to figure out how to do that, and we’d love more input.
Please leave a comment about which e-reader you use and what content you’d most like to read on an e-reader.
If you’re looking for something to read offline immediately, here are some res [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 25th '11 |
Video: MVP 2011 Global Summit Interviews, Question 2
To The SharePoint
Recently, we attended the 2011 MVP Global Summit in Redmond, Washington. We interviewed and filmed any MVPs who wanted to give feedback on Microsoft TechNet, MSDN, and Office.com online product documentation.
This is the second of three videos that we produced where we asked questions about our documentation. In this video, we asked the MVPs the following question:
How often are you able to get the information you need from a single source?
We discovered that most MVPs do not find the help [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 23rd '11 |
SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Integration in SharePoint 2010
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Taking two powerful applications and integrating them can yield powerful results. Such is the case with SQL Server and SharePoint Server. And with the SharePoint Server 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 releases, the enhanced integration is significant. The main benefit in integration is that it allows you to view, store, and manage report server content on a SharePoint site or farm.
Alan Le Marquand has written a detailed and informative article, "Working Together: SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Servi [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 22nd '11 |
Book excerpt: "Collaboration Meets Business Intelligence"
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Chapter 2 of the new McGraw-Hill book, Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010, is now available on TechNet. Written by Philo Janus and Stacia Misner, this book highlights the Microsoft business intelligence (BI) tools that are available today and provides comprehensive guidance for developing BI solutions. Chapter 2, "Collaboration Meets Business Intelligence", presents an overview of the current Microsoft BI technologies. This chapter als [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 21st '11 |
Video: MVP Global Summit 2011 Interviews, Question 1
To The SharePoint
Recently, we attended the 2011 MVP Global Summit in Redmond, Washington. We interviewed and filmed any MVPs who wanted to give feedback on Microsoft TechNet, MSDN, and Office.com online product documentation.
This is the first of three videos that we produced where we asked questions about our documentation. In this video, we asked the MVPs the following question:
When you need technical information for a Microsoft product, where do you look first?
We found that most MVPs immediately enter the [read].
Posted: Thu, Mar 17th '11 |
Creating PerformancePoint dashboards using Project Server data
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You might have seen the new Business Intelligence Center that is available for Microsoft Project Server 2010. If you haven’t seen it or used it yet, watch this fantastic video that my teammate published. She does an excellent job of introducing you to the Business Intelligence Center and how it relates to Project Server.
Video: About the BI Center
The Business Intelligence Center makes it easy for you to create and use dashboards to track and analyze performance. For example, you ca [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 14th '11 |
Video: Deploy a client tool for taking SharePoint content offline
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A new video is available about how to deploy SharePoint Workspace 2010 to SharePoint site contributors who work offline; that is, how to support offline uses of SharePoint sites.
Check it out here: Deploy a client tool for taking SharePoint content offline (video)
Thanks,
Mena Paton, SharePoint Workspace writer [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 9th '11 |
Facilitating content upload to SharePoint sites using SharePoint Workspace
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Network traffic, poor connectivity, and server downtime due to adverse conditions can interrupt communications with a SharePoint site. Such interruptions can make the process of updating a document on a SharePoint site frustrating for users. Content exchange with hosting servers can take longer than expected, even for minor updates, but especially when updates involve large or complex documents. And, if a network connection is tenuous, users could lose their changes while in the process of makin [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 4th '11 |
Trying to decide which BI tool is best?
To The SharePoint
Trying to decide on which Business Intelligence application is best for your business? With all the choices available, do you know what style of BI is right for you? The white paper "How to Choose the Right Business Intelligence Technology to Suit Your Style" will help you with those questions and more.
For the five different styles of BI -- Self-Service Analysis, Business Reporting, Parameterized & Operational Reporting, Performance Monitoring, and Scorecarding -- this white paper include [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 2nd '11 |
Revamped business intelligence scenario hub on TechNet
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The Microsoft Business Intelligence Center (http://technet.microsoft.com/bi) on TechNet has just been revamped. It is now a content hub featuring six end-to-end scenarios that highlight cross-product integrations for BI solutions. What makes this new hub unique is that it is a pilot for the new five-bucket lifecycle that TechNet is adopting, based around the Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0.
This project was a partnership between TechNet and the content publishing teams for IT professionals a [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 17th '11 |
New Video: Importing Federated Locations
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Hal Zucati here with a video update to the following TechNet Library topics: Manage Federated Locations (SharePoint Server 2010) and Manage Federated Locations (Search Server 2010).
I've created a short 5 minute video that demonstrates how to import a federated location using SharePoint Server 2010 or Search Server 2010.
To view or download this video, click either of the TechNet Library topic links above. The video is at the bottom of the topic.
Let us know what you think! [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 11th '11 |
Understanding People Picker and custom claims providers
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We recently published new content that describes the People Picker control and its relationship with custom claims providers. People Picker (shown below) is a Web control used to find and select users, groups, and claims and then grant them permissions to items such as lists, libraries, or sites in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010.
In order to use People Picker effectively in your site collections, it is important to understand the relationship between [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 8th '11 |
New downloads: IT Pro .chm files for SharePoint 2010 Products and related products
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Periodically, we convert the entire English TechNet library content for certain products into compiled HTML Help (.chm) files. You can save the following downloadable files to a local machine so that the technical docs are accessible even when you are offline.
SharePoint Server
SharePoint Foundation
FAST Search Server for SharePoint
We have also published .chm files for the following IT Pro content sets:
Office 2010 Resource Kit
Project Server
Search Server
Groove Server
Six of these sets ab [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 4th '11 |
New video: Creating a profile synchronization connection in SharePoint Server 2010
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Profile sync in SharePoint Server 2010 is quite powerful, but it takes a lot of steps to configure it. To help you get profile sync set up, we've created a video that demonstrates many of the steps. The video covers:
Creating a connection to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
Creating a connection filter
Mapping profile properties
Importing properties from AD DS
Exporting a property back to AD DS
Verifying the results in SharePoint and in AD DS
Because these are a lot of steps, the video [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 2nd '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Products and SharePoint Workspace Mobile
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Microsoft SharePoint Workspace Mobile 2010 is included in Microsoft Office Mobile, which is available on Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 6.5 devices. Users can use SharePoint Workspace Mobile to connect to SharePoint sites and open, edit, and save Microsoft Office documents that are on the SharePoint sites.
We've heard that users are having problems connecting to SharePoint sites from SharePoint Workspace Mobile. This post addresses some common issues.
NOTE: Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 6 [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 31st '11 |
Managing crawl deletion policies for SharePoint Server 2010
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Hello! Hal Zucati here, a writer with Enterprise Search User Assistance. I want to share some information about how to manage crawl deletion policies in SharePoint Server 2010.
SharePoint Server 2010 uses four policies that control accidental deletion of content, when the crawl component (crawler) encounters intermittent errors during a crawl. These policies are controlled by properties on the Search service application and they determine how many times and how long an item will be retried in [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 20th '11 |
Troubleshooting SharePoint configuration error: Cannot connect to database master at server_name
To The SharePoint
Hello everyone. I'm Reagan Templin, a new writer on the SharePoint Server IT Pro team. Recently I've been working on getting my test environment set up with SharePoint Server 2010 for the first time. I have my SQL Server computer separate from my SharePoint Server computer, and as I ran the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, I encountered the following blocking error on the Specify Configuration Database Settings page:
"Cannot connect to database master at SQL Server at . The database mi [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 12th '11 |
Announcing: IT pro content for Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP
To The SharePoint
Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP blends SAP applications, data, and business processes with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 2010 collaboration and productivity features. By taking advantage of the familiar SharePoint and Office interfaces, Duet Enterprise empowers information workers with unified and simplified access to SAP processes and data.
To support the release of this product, our IT pro content team has published a rich set of Duet Enterprise for Microsoft Sha [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 7th '11 |
Converting an LDAP filter to a SharePoint Server 2010 connection filter
To The SharePoint
When you set up profile synchronization between an LDAP provider such as AD DS and SharePoint Server 2010, you might have an existing LDAP filter that you want to convert to a SharePoint connection filter. This post provides an example of converting an LDAP filter to a SharePoint connection filter. For instructions about entering the connection filter using the SharePoint UI, see the section "Define exclusion filters for a synchronization connection" of the Configure profile synchronization topi [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 6th '11 |
Throttling limits and Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010
To The SharePoint
We at "To the SharePoint" are big fans of TechNet Radio. It has some great content about SharePoint 2010. If you use Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010, make sure to catch Throttling Limits and Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010. In this podcast, SharePoint Product Manager Bill Baer interviews SharePoint Certified Master Taj Singh about configuring throttling limits in Business Connectivity Services for SharePoint 2010. They discuss how setting throttling limi [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 5th '11 |
An overview of site permissions
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Hi, I'm Monica Xie, a technical writer who specializes in site permissions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products. Permission plays an important role in managing security at almost every level of SharePoint hierarchy, from a server farm to a list item. In this blog, we will discuss permissions at the site and site content level by introducing three permission concepts, two factors related to permission management, and two new features introduced in SharePoint Server 2010.
Three concepts
Permiss [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 21st '10 |
TechNet Radio: User Profiles in SharePoint 2010
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This week, SharePoint Product Manager Bill Baer interviews SharePoint Microsoft Certified Masters Ali Mazaheri and Spencer Harbar (who is also a Microsoft SharePoint MVP) about user profiles in SharePoint 2010.
Listen in as they discuss what user profiles are, their importance, how to manage them, and how to configure profile synchronization:
TechNet Radio: User Profiles in SharePoint 2010
Additional podcasts in this "Learning on the go..." series include:
TechNet Radio: Deployment and Custo [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 7th '10 |
Reporting Services Performance Improvement in SharePoint Integrated Mode in SQL Server 2008 R2
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As you may already know, you can upload or publish report server content types to a SharePoint library and then view and manage those documents from a SharePoint site. This is after you install the Reporting Services Add-in on Microsoft SharePoint Server and configure for integration.
Carl Rabeler, Senior Program Manager on the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team, explains in his article, Reporting Services Performance in SharePoint Integrated Mode in SQL Server 2008 R2, that there are difference [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 3rd '10 |
New graphic added to our resource centers
To The SharePoint
To help tie the SharePoint capabilities to our technical content, we’ve added a graphic. You can see the blue graphic in the top right of each of our resource centers, such as this one:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/gg241215.aspx
This is our new Published Intranet resource center, which is associated with the Sites capability in SharePoint Server.
As always, we’re keen to hear your feedback! Does this graphic help provide better context? To send us feedback, [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 2nd '10 |
Building your Internet and intranet presence with SharePoint Server 2010
To The SharePoint
Featured today on the TechNet home page and various TechNet areas is a special package focusing on how to plan, build and manage Internet and intranet solutions with SharePoint Server 2010.
This package contains two topical pages full of additional Internet and intranet resources:
Planning Your Site
Build and Manage
Our team's Samantha Robertson and Cern McAtee wrote one of the TechNet Magazine articles featured in this package, notably "SharePoint on the Internet and in the Intranet: Differ [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 29th '10 |
BI scenarios and solutions: Connecting PerformancePoint Services to Oracle by using BCS
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While at the SharePoint conference, customers asked how to connect to Oracle data through BCS for the purpose of surfacing data to a dashboard. The article, Connecting PerformancePoint Services to Oracle data sources by using Business Connectivity Services, provides steps and links to related articles for the following high-level tasks:
Create a model file and external content type to describe how SharePoint Server connects to Oracle and retrieves inventory data.
Publish the list data to Share [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 23rd '10 |
Deploy SharePoint Server 2010 to a test environment
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Earlier this week, I paved my test machine and followed the excellent instructions in Deploy Project Server 2010 to a test environment to install my new SharePoint Server 2010 test environment. While this series of articles is intended for a Project Server audience, they will also lead you to a successful test deployment of SharePoint Server 2010 (which is a prerequisite to Project Server 2010). In this blog post, I’m including notes on what to do differently if you are using these ins [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 16th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search IT Professional Training
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p class="MsoNormal"spanThis has been a big month for Enterprise Search content!/span/p
pThis comprehensive, advanced training series is now available on bTechNet/b, covering both SharePoint Server 2010 and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. The online, self-paced training is intended to help IT professionals deploy enterprise search with SharePoint at full scale, and be capable of doing amazing things with it./p
pThe training consists of 16 modules of lessons ndash; including 57 vi [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 25th '10 |
Case study: Edgenet and self-service business intelligence
To The SharePoint
pThe a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/C/C/3CC4D234-B796-4A6C-ADB7-284723E7BFB2/edgenet-bighammer-case-study_whitepaper.docx"Case Study: Edgenet Realizes the Power of Dynamic IT and Self-Service BI/a white paper is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. /p
pEdgenet is a network that provides data to retailers, suppliers, and consumers to improve sales and customer satisfaction. The case study describes how the Edgenet IT department made best use of the self-ser [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 20th '10 |
Plan Windows PowerShell permissions
To The SharePoint
pSome organizations may want tight control over who is able to run Windows PowerShell cmdlets. This post gives an overview to the permissions required to run a SharePoint 2010 Products for Windows PowerShell cmdlet or script and issues to consider before a user is granted permission by an administrator./p
pIn SharePoint Products and Technologies, the only permission required to run the stsadm.exe command-line tool was a local administrator on the computer where SharePoint Products and Technologi [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 15th '10 |
Overview of PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer
To The SharePoint
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: small;"span style="font-family: Calibri;"PerformancePoint Dashboard Designer, which is included with PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, is a tool that you can use to create powerful dashboards in your organization. If PerformancePoint Services is configured and you have the necessary permissions, you can create and use a dashboard to display performance across an organization, such as the one shown in the following image:/span [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 12th '10 |
Configuring extranet access for PerformancePoint Services 2010
To The SharePoint
pDo you have users that need access to your data, but aren't in your intranet? /p
pA new whitenbsp;paper, a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=202004"Configuring extranet access for PerformancePoint Services 2010/a, describes architectural considerations for deploying PerformancePoint Services in an extranet environment. The paper provides a detailed walkthrough of the recommended architecture that uses Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) server as a reverse-proxy server, the Ker [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 5th '10 |
Updated guidance for configuring profile synchronization
To The SharePoint
p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"I've updated the instructions for setting up profile sync, and the revised /spana href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx"span style="font-family: Calibri; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;"Configure profile synchronization/span/aspan style="font-family: Calibri;"span style="font-size: small;" topic was published on Sept. 30. /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0 [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 1st '10 |
Using an LDIF file to import profiles from an LDAP provider
To The SharePoint
pSharePoint Server 2010 currently supports the following LDAP providers for importing user and group profile information into the SharePoint profile store:/p
ul
liSunOne 5.2 /li
liNovell eDirectory 8.7.3 /li
liIBM Tivoli 5.2 /li
/ul
pBut what if you need to import profile information from a different LDAP provider? Well, the good news is you can! In addition to directly supporting the three LDAP providers listed above, SharePoint Server 2010 also supports using a Lightweight Directory Interchang [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 21st '10 |
Book excerpt: SharePoint Development and Governance Using COBIT 4.1: A Practical Approach
To The SharePoint
pThis post is an effort to highlight book excerpts on a specific method for applying governance to your SharePoint Server deployment. There is also a section about preparing for SharePoint in the Cloud./p
pThe following quote, from the booknbsp; a href="https://www.isaca.org/bookstore/Pages/Product-Detail.aspx?Product_code=SDG"SharePoint Deployment and Governance Using COBIT 4.1: A Practical Approach/a by David Chenault, defines the importance of applying best practices (in this case, a governan [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 17th '10 |
Book review: PerformancePoint Services 2010 Unleashed
To The SharePoint
pThe four authors of a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-SharePoint-PerformancePoint-Services-Unleashed/dp/0672330946"PerformancePoint Services 2010 Unleashed/a have done a splendid job of giving PerformancePoint 2010 the attention that a fully integrated SharePoint service application, dedicated to business intelligence, deserves. SharePoint Server 2010 helps users to create KPIs, scorecards, reports, and dashboards that meet team and organizational needs.nbsp; The following [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 16th '10 |
New governance content – white papers and check out the model!
To The SharePoint
pHi! Governance is a critical topic for SharePoint Server 2010, and I know yoursquo;ve all been waiting for us to get content out there about it. We have some progress to share from our work this summer./p
pWhatrsquo;s new in governance content:/p
ul
lia href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=33a8c9e0-57c2-4ae5-99e3-8826ab9dd701"span style="color: #669966;"Governance model/span/a ndash; describes the three areas of governance for SharePoint Server 2010 and highlights some [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 2nd '10 |
Announcing the updates resource center for SharePoint 2010 Products
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pWe've created an updates resource center Web site that features articles about software updatesnbsp;for a SharePoint Foundation 2010 or a SharePoint Server 2010nbsp;environment. /p
pIn addition to posting the lastest information about cumulative updates and service packs, the updates resource center links to up-to-date articles about the nature of software updates and our recommended approaches for mitigating downtime when you install an update on farm servers. /p
pAll these approachesnbsp;are [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 24th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Products: Upgrade and the Fabulous 40 Application Templates
To The SharePoint
pspan style="font-size: x-small"span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"Many of you have used the "Fabulous 40 templates" that were created for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Some of these templates were created as site admin templates (.stp files) and some as server admin templates (.wsp files). Microsoft is not releasing new versions of these templates for SharePoint 2010 Products. Also, .stpnbsp; files are deprecated and can't be used to create new sites when you upgrade to Shar [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 18th '10 |
Three integrated business intelligence solutions
To The SharePoint
pThe following is a summary ofnbsp;recently publishednbsp;business intelligence solutions and the corresponding solution download link. The solutionsnbsp;includenbsp;Microsoft Office, SharePoint 2010, and SQL Server 2008. /p
h2Self-Service Analytics: Sales Solution/h2
pThis business intelligence (BI) solution scenario describes the steps that employees of the fictional company Contoso take as they analyze sales and promotions data and share that analysis with others in the company. The document [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 6th '10 |
Introducing SharePoint Workspace 2010
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: x-small;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Do you wish you had an easy answer for SharePoint users who ask, "How can I update my SharePoint documents while Irsquo;m away or offline?" or "How can I access my SharePoint content quickly and easily without a browser?"/spanspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"o:p/o:p/ [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 2nd '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Products, SQL Server, Storage and Databases (oh my)
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pThe SharePoint 2010 Products are, at core, Web applications built on SQL Server databases. To best administer an environment and keep it performing well, administrators should understand the following: /p
ul
liHow to choose the best version of SQL Server for their environment/li
liHow to best configure and monitor SQL Server for SharePoint 2010 Products/li
liWhich databases they are running, and their characteristics/li
liWhether itrsquo;s appropriate to use remote BLOB storage to meet their bu [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 30th '10 |
Whitepaper: Configuring Kerberos authentication for SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 products
To The SharePoint
pspan style="font-family: Calibri;"span style="font-size: small;"
p class="MsoNormal"Hello, this is Norm, IT Pro writer for business intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products. span style="color: #1f497d;"span style="color: #000000;"Kerberos is often used in business intelligence solutions to establish secure access to external data sources such as Microsoft SQL Server/span. /spanLast week, a a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff829837.aspx"new white paper/a was published [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 22nd '10 |
Excel Services and Excel Web Apps common/different features
To The SharePoint
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"span style="font-size: small;"Excel Services extends the Excel desktop experience to the web and is built upon a server-hosted version of the Excel calculation engine. Advantages include enabling users to interact with Excel workbooks directly in their web browser, without having to have the Excel client installed on a client computer. This increases the overall reach and use-case scenarios of Excel-based data and applications.o:p/o:p/ [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 21st '10 |
Announcing the release of the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit version 1.0
To The SharePoint
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pspan style="font-size: x-small;"Hello, my name is Kirk Stark, [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 20th '10 |
Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Products from other versions or products
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pNot every upgrade is a straightforward upgrade from one version of a product to the next. In order to help, we've got new TechNet library articles about how to perform an upgrade when you need to:/p ul liSkip a version: ul liUpgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2010 /li liUpgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 /li /ul /li liGet more features: ul liUpgrade from SharePoint Foundation 2010 to SharePoint Server 2010 /li liUpgrade from S [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 19th '10 |
Learning about Business Connectivity Services
To The SharePoint
p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"span style="font-family: Calibri;"span style="font-size: small;"Hello, Irsquo;m Rob Silver, a technical writer on the SharePoint IT pro content team. This release, I focused on Business Connectivity Services, a set of features that help you bring external data into SharePoint and Office 2010. In this blog entry, Irsquo;ll give you a brief description of Business Connectivity Services and then describe the content wersquo;ve created to you to help y [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 9th '10 |
How to create planning solutions and scenarios using Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, and SQL Server 2008 R2
To The SharePoint
p class="MsoBodyText"span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"span style="font-size: x-small;"span style="font-family: Segoe UI;"span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"For a detailed look at understanding planning solutions using Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and SQL 2008 R2, check out this white paper, "/spana target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=99A1236A-895A-414B-A19A-C12A616EBE6Camp;amp;displaylang=enamp;displaylang=en" title="P [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 7th '10 |
Metadata-based content routing and storage in SharePoint Server 2010
To The SharePoint
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 243pt 0pt 0in;"span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"span style="font-size: x-small;"span style="font-size: small;"font size="3"span style="color: black;"span style="font-size: x-small;"F/span/span/font/spanspan style="color: black;"or many organizations, content not being saved and stored to the right place is a serious problem. SharePoint Server 2010 now offers/span new features to help administrators make sure content items (documents, pic [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 6th '10 |
SharePoint 2010 Products and Hyper-V R2
To The SharePoint
pI'm excited to announce the availability of expanded and new resources for customers who want to create virtual farms. Since Hyper-V was first released, we witnessed a dramtic growth in the number of organizations and individuals who are using or plan to use Hyper-V as a flexible, stable, and high performing platform for SharePoint 2010 Products. Adopters are using virtual farms for development, testing, staging, and production environments./p
pTo meet your needs, we added to and expanded our v [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 2nd '10 |
Create a Corporate Sales dashboard with PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2010
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"SharePoint Server 2010 offers new and expanded ways of creating business intelligence dashboards using PerformancePoint Services.nbsp; Download this complete scenario tonbsp;getnbsp;detailed guidance on how to create a sample Corporate Sale [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 30th '10 |
PerformancePoint Services troubleshooting
To The SharePoint
h1/h1
pI am Norm Warren, an IT Pro writer for business intelligence tools in SharePoint 2010 Products. I want to share common troubleshooting tips for PerformancePoint Services. TechNetnbsp;articles and trusted blog posts are valuable sources of information on these subjects, for example: /p
ul
lia href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748643.aspx"Set up and configure PerformancePoint Services (step-by-step)/a, which will also point you to other TechNet articles. /li
lia href="http: [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 23rd '10 |
Search administration reports in SharePoint Server 2010
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pspan style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"span style="font-size: x-small;"SharePoint Server 2010nbsp;offers a new health monitoring feature: search administration reports. These provide crawl and query data to help you find and diagnose possible performance issues with your search system. There are three types of search administration reports:/span/span/p
ul
li
div class="unordered"span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"span style="font-size: x-small;"strongBasic search [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 21st '10 |
Security and authentication resource centers for SharePoint 2010 Products
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p style="background: white;"span style="color: #444444; font-size: 10pt;"span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"SharePoint 2010 Products are logically divided into three distributed tiers: the front-end Web server tier, the application server tier, and the back-end database tier. Administrators and IT pros are empowered to control and manage access to the resources that reside within each of these tiers. Access to network resources can be centrally managed using the tools and metho [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 14th '10 |
See you in New Orleans!
To The SharePoint
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: small;"span style="font-family: Calibri;"Come see us at TechEd! A bunch of writers and editors will be working the SharePoint booth and attending SharePoint sessions over the course of the week. Stop in if you have any questions or feedback on the SharePoint documentation, if yoursquo;d like to say hi, or if yoursquo;re interested in writing articles for us.o:p/o:p/span/span/pdiv style="clear:both;"/divimg src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 3rd '10 |
Office Web Apps for Microsoft SharePoint Products 2010
To The SharePoint
p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"span style="font-size: small;"span style="font-family: Calibri;"As part of your SharePoint 2010 rollout, have you been asked to coordinate with or deploy Office as well? Office Web Apps is a suite of online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that enable people to access and do light editing or sharing of Office documents from virtually anywhere. Yes, all of those Office documents in your SharePoint environment can now b [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 2nd '10 |
What’s new…Business Intelligence Indexing Connector
To The SharePoint
pI am excited to introduce to you an add-on feature that will make business intelligence assets more discoverable through FAST search and SharePoint Server 2010./p pAs an IT administrators, you can deploy Microsoft Business Intelligence Indexing Connector (BIIC) to enhance search capabilities for Excel and Reporting Services reports and their underlying data sources. When BIIC is installed, an additional search tab called “Reports” becomes part of the SharePoint search page. By using the Rep [read].
Posted: Tue, May 18th '10 |
Plan your server farm by using the Capacity Management Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010
To The SharePoint
PThe release of SharePoint 2010 Products marks a substantial change in the way Microsoft approaches capacity and performance documentation. We have listened to feedback and learned from customer experiences with SharePoint Server 2007 and our own testing to establish a comprehensive set of initial guidance for capacity and performance management for SharePoint Server 2010./P
PWe have published a Capacity Management Resource Center (A href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff601870.a [read].
Posted: Mon, May 17th '10 |
New SharePoint 2010 Products documentation – LAUNCH IS HERE!!!
To The SharePoint
PThe SharePoint IT Pro content team is proud to announce the release of ournbsp;Launch documentation for SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010! We’ve created several different types of content to help you plan, deploy, and administer both SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation./P
PThenbsp;Launch content for both products can be found here:/P
PSTRONGSharePoint Server 2010:/STRONG/P
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LIA href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee263917.aspx#tab=1" target=_blank [read].
Posted: Wed, May 12th '10 |
Which resource center design do you prefer?
To The SharePoint
PFor SharePoint Server 2007, we created various resource centers on TechNet to make it easier for you to find the content you need quickly and easily. For SharePoint Server 2010, we're revamping our resource centers. We've narrowed it down to three different designs and would like to know what you think./P
PSTRONGDesign #1/STRONG /P
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Posted: Mon, May 3rd '10 |
Collaborative Decision Making in SharePoint 2010, a New Business Intelligence Idea
To The SharePoint
pCombine social networking and business intelligence and you get emcollaborative decision-making/em. It is a form of business intelligence for organizations that want to help their employees make decisions with their best resource, people! /p pBecause of the “SharePoint affect”, a phrase used in the book, a href="http://www.isaca.org/Template.cfm?Section=COBIT8amp;Template=/Ecommerce/ProductDisplay.cfmamp;Productid=1048"SharePoint Deployment and Governance Using COBIT 4.1: A Practical Approa [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 23rd '10 |
Check out free SharePoint videos from TechEd 2009
To The SharePoint
PIf you missed TechEd 2009, you can watch many of the sessions on video. TechNet has posted 43 hours of videos that cover such topics as Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows (client and server), security, and unified messaging. These include eight sessions provided by SharePoint MVPs and experts:/P
UL
LIA class=FeatureHeadlinesTitle id=ctl00_mainContentContainer_ctl01_ctl06 title="SharePoint Admins, the Reluctant DBAs" onclick="javascript:Track('ctl00_mainContentContainer_ctl01_ctl05|ctl00_mai [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 23rd '10 |
Microsoft IT applies COBIT control objects with Microsoft business intelligence tools
To The SharePoint
pI want to follow a previous post, a href="http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/archive/2010/04/08/3323860.aspx"IT audits, COBIT, and using business intelligence in SharePoint 2010/a, with a scenario that shows how Microsoft’s IT department applies the Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) framework guidance to monitor and evaluate IT performance. /p pIn early 2007, Chief Information Officer (CIO) Stuart Scott charged the IT leadership team at Microsoft to adopt [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 16th '10 |
IT audits, COBIT, and using business intelligence in SharePoint 2010
To The SharePoint
pI’m in the midst of an MBA, and as part of my coursework, I’ve been reviewing IT audits that are available on the web. The following two audit reports caught my attention./p ul lia href="http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/audit/governance.asp" target="_blank"Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s IT audit/a/li lia href="http://www.mantagroup.com/html/case-studies/0907-peel.html" target="_blank"Regional Municipality of Peel/a /li /ul pI’m particularly interested in how organizations, a [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 8th '10 |
Excel Web App
To The SharePoint
P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormalSPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"The Excel product team is offering the new Excel Web App as part of the browser-based Microsoft Office Web Apps. The Excel Web App is a companion to the Excel client, and it provides users with the ability to create, view, edit, and collaborate on Excel workbooks in several supported browsers. /SPAN/P
P style="LINE-HEIGHT: no [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 5th '10 |
Empower your users of Access 2010 Database Applications with Access Services!
To The SharePoint
SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"
P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormalSPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin"FONT face=CalibriFor years Microsoft Access has allowed organizations, individual departments,nbsp;and users to manage their business information. It enables them to easily create and [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 12th '10 |
*NEW* SharePoint 2007 Books available on Amazon!
To The SharePoint
DIVDo you ever wish you could order up SharePoint content in a professionally bound format?nbsp; Well now you can! /DIV
DIVnbsp;/DIV
DIVOur downloadable books for SharePoint IT are now also available on Amazon.com. Find them, along with other great books about Office, in the A href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=179990" mce_href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=179990"FONT color=#006ff7Office IT Pro Bookstore/FONT/A (A href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=179990"FONT colo [read].
Posted: Thu, Feb 11th '10 |
NEW! Plan for Profile Synchronization
To The SharePoint
PIf you’ve had a chance to play around with the new profile synchronization capabilities in SharePoint Server 2010, you’ve probably discovered that there are a few things it would be nice to know before you got started. Well, we’ve put together a document that will help you properly prepare for setting up Profile Synchronization in SharePoint Server 2010./P
PA href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff182925(office.14).aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en- [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 22nd '10 |
SharePoint BI
To The SharePoint
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Posted: Thu, Jan 14th '10 |
*New* SharePoint 2010 content deployment poster
To The SharePoint
P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"FONT face=Calibri size=3Check out our new content deployment poster, created by Cern McAtee:/FONT/P
P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"A href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=de010583-e5fe-4c4b-a633-e57312336aefamp;displaylang=en" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=de010583-e5fe-4c4b-a633-e57312336aefamp;displaylang=en"FONT face=Calibri size=3http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details. [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 12th '10 |
Add-in for Manipulating Points on Charts in Excel 2007 and Excel 2010
To The SharePoint
P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"FONT face=Calibri size=3The Microsoft Excel product team has listened to customer feedback and created the Manipulating Points on Charts (MPOC) add-in. MPOC provides Excel 2007 and Excel 2010 users the ability to resize or reposition points on charts. This feature was last present in Excel 2003 and later removed.nbsp;Since then,nbsp;customer feedback has shown this feature was used often and missed when it was removed. The Excel product team has resp [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 7th '10 |
Profile Synchronization in SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2
To The SharePoint
PIn SharePoint Server 2010, you can use Profile Synchronization to synchronize user and group profile information that is stored in the SharePoint Server 2010 profile store with profile information that is stored in directory services across the enterprise. This profile information includes hierarchy and group information that can be used to drive functionality such as audiences or hierarchy-driven business processes. /P
PFor Beta 2, we published documentation that explains how to configure Prof [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 15th '09 |
Preparing to upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Products
To The SharePoint
pThe public beta releases of SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 are coming soon. Aside from the anticipation of wanting to see all of the new features and functionality, some of you with existing Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environments may be feeling another kind of anticipation – upgrade anxiety. Well, the best way to handle anxiety is to get prepared. And the Upgrade and Migration Resource Centers are up and running with content to he [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 10th '09 |
New SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) Content
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Posted: Fri, Nov 6th '09 |
Support your DBA!
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PWe’ve just finished creating a new downloadable book for SQL Server database administrators who support SharePoint environments. If you work with one of those lucky folks, you may want to point them to: /P
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PWe’ve also updated a number of our other articles to refer to feat [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 5th '09 |
The new Business Intelligence Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010
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pThe new a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee692578.aspx" target="_blank"Business Intelligence Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2010/a is a TechNet site for information about business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010. The following is some of what is is included in the TechNet resource center./p pstrongIT professionals/strong/p ul lia href="http://technet.microsoft.com/library/ee424405(office.14).aspx"Excel Services overview/a /li lia href="http://technet.microsoft [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 5th '09 |
My impressions of the SharePoint Conference
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PI’m Norm Warren, IT Pro writer for SharePoint Server 2010 business intelligence. I also write for A href="http://blogs.technet.com/ppsdocteam/" mce_href="http://blogs.technet.com/ppsdocteam/"B.I. the way…/Aand used to write for A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/normbi/default.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/normbi/default.aspx"Norm's PerformancePoint Server Blog/A. /P
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PI remember the first SharePoin [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 30th '09 |
How do you use our posters?
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We'd like to know how you use the posters we have up on TechNet:
SharePoint Server 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199(office.14).aspx
SharePoint Server 2007: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199.aspx,
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287835.aspx
Do you print them on a plotter, or in a smaller format?
Would you like them to be available to order in glossy format?
Is there any other way that you'd like us to p [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 26th '09 |
New business intelligence services in SharePoint Server 2010
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The poster, Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010, is a review of all the business intelligence (BI) services in SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) and can be downloaded in Visio, PDF, and XPS file formats. You will notice that PerformancePoint Server 2007 is integrated into SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta), to add business intelligence features such as dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, and more. The poster includes the following information. An overview of each [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 24th '09 |
New business intelligence services in SharePoint Server
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PerformancePoint Server 2007 is being integrated into SharePoint Server 2010, adding business intelligence features such as dashboards, scorecards, rich KPIs. The poster, "Getting started with business intelligence in SharePoint Server 2010" is a review of all the business intelligence (BI) services in SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) and includes the following information. An overview of each business intelligence service and when you might use each service to surface reports, scorecards, KPIs, [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 23rd '09 |
Content posters for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 !
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The product team published an excellent Blog post, SharePoint 2010, which gives a comprehensive description of enhancements and features for the release of SharePoint Server 2010. Other "what's new" posts are be covered on www.microsoft.com\sharepoint. Our team has published posters for many of the focus areas that are shown on the "SharePoint 2010 wheel".The posters provide a one-stop view of different aspects of SharePoint Server 2010 deployment, decision points, and include useful diag [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 23rd '09 |
Meet us at the SharePoint Conference!
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We wanted to let you know that lots of folks from the SharePoint IT Pro content publishing team will be at SPC in Las Vegas next week. We’d love to meet you, and get your feedback on the documentation (SharePoint 2007/WSS 3.0 as well as SharePoint 2010).
We’ll all be at Ask the Experts, Wednesday from 5:45-7:00 (look for the IT Pro Content for TechNet table).
We’ll also be running short (10 minute) usability interviews on Monday from 5-7 pm in Banyon E in the South Conference Center, and a [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 16th '09 |
Patching a mirrored farm with minimal downtime
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(Cross-posted from the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog) For administrators of large SharePoint server farms, a newly-published article describes how to update server farms that use database mirroring, while incurring minimal perceived downtime for users. This solution is for enterprise customers who have high-availability needs and infrastructure. This article describes a step-by-step process for Office SharePoint Server farms that incorporate SQL Server mirroring. You can achieve similar results [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 18th '09 |
Stsadm Silverlight interactive application
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Hello, I am a technical writer for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. I would like to announce that an Stsadm Silverlight interactive application is now available on the following TechNet Web sites:
Ø Stsadm Technical Reference for SharePoint Server 2007:
o http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/cc948709.aspx
Ø Stsadm Technical Reference for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:
o http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepo [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 8th '09 |
New and updated content deployment topics address customer pain points
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Escalation Engineer Stefan Goßner posted Content Deployment - Best Practices on his blog. We have now incorporated this information into the following TechNet library articles:
· Determine sites and subsites
· Plan content deployment
· Administer content deployment
· Configure content deployment settings
· Administer content deployment paths and jobs
· Create a new content deployment job
We have also published a new topic, Troubleshoot [read].
Posted: Tue, May 5th '09 |
We're updating TechNet again (finally)!
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You may have noticed that our publishing system has been down for a very long time -- at least, it felt that way to us! We've still been updating topics and creating new ones, but you haven't been able to see much of our work.
As of the week of March 30, our publishing system is finally letting us push new content to the TechNet library, so we'll be publishing a series of posts about the content that we're most excited about.
To keep up with our content updates, don't forget to subscribe to ou [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 10th '09 |
Still have questions regarding upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007?
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We have updated the following topics that deal with upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007, based on customer feedback:
· Determine upgrade approach (Office SharePoint Server)
· How the upgrade process works
· Review upgrade best practices
· Estimate how long the upgrade process will take and the amount of space needed
· Use a trial upgrade to find potential issues
· Develop new custom site definitions and create upgrade definition fil [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 10th '09 |
What's your governance plan?
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Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that you establish in your enterprise to guide, direct, and control the use of technologies to accomplish business goals.
Two fundamental areas within SharePoint require governance: The IT services that host Office SharePoint Server 2007, and the information management and architecture for your portals and other Office SharePoint Server sites. A governance plan contains a record of your decisions about these areas and [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 25th '09 |
SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) Tool v1.0 for SharePoint Products and Technologies
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The real power of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is that they can be endlessly customized to meet a wide variety of business needs. The Protean nature of SharePoint is at once its most powerful feature and its most formidable; the complexity of your SharePoint environment can increase by orders of magnitude when you begin to shape it to suit your needs. This complexity can make troubleshooting SharePoint issues a daunting task, as many different data points fro [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 6th '09 |
Want your whitepapers in PDF or XPS?
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By request we have added a couple of format options for the download of a recent and popular whitepaper: Administrator's Guide of Topics to Consider before Deployment (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=139163&clcid=0x409), by Shane Young and the folks at SharePoint 911 (http://www.sharepoint911.com).
On the download page, you'll see three different format options: docx, pdf, and xps.
Choose the option you like best and we'll track the metrics and popularity of each. Who knows, we mig [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 6th '09 |
Using MIS with SharePoint? Blatchington Mill School shows how to do the job.
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I recently completed a technical case study with a school in the UK: Blatchington Mill School (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335971.aspx).
This is the second school I've worked with in the UK. I was attracted to this solution by the sophisticated use of reporting that ties into the school's MIS system. In a nutshell, here's how it works:
1. The MIS system is hosted on a separate server. Here's the lineup of servers in their environment:
For details on the server hardware, see t [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 19th '09 |
Administrator’s Guide of Topics to Consider before Deployment
To The SharePoint
Greetings, SharePoint fans, and happy 2009! This week, we added a new white paper to our TechNet collection: Administrator's Guide of Topics to Consider before Deployment (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=139163&clcid=0x409). This paper is provided by Shane Young and the folks at SharePoint 911 (http://www.sharepoint911.com). This white paper is a great resource for anybody who is new to SharePoint. It walks through the primary topics that require attention before you consider runnin [read].
Posted: Sat, Jan 10th '09 |
Facelift!
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Have you noticed the redesign of our Office SharePoint Server TechCenter? It’s the TechNet landing page for SharePoint IT Pro-focused content and the home of our Resource Centers—the pages we build to expose content for top customer issues and key product themes.
Based on customer feedback, we’ve done the following:
Moved the Resource Center links to the most prominent area (left side).
Added organizational pivots around lifecycle and role to help you find groups of content.
Here's a [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 18th '08 |
Big farm deployment? No problem
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If you’re faced with doing a large SharePoint deployment, you’re probably feeling dizzy and lightheaded at the prospect of prepping, installing, and configuring SharePoint on 40 … 50 … or even more individual servers. It’s a big, complex, and repetitive job that requires a high degree of precision. Fortunately, with the right set of instructions, this is just the sort of job computers can do for themselves.
If you do a lot of SharePoint installations, you probably have discovered alrea [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 25th '08 |
SharePoint and Data Protection Manager -- very cool together!
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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) is a Microsoft backup and recovery tool that can be used to protect and recover SharePoint data.
Why is DPM exciting? It requires very little processing on the server because writes are done frequently at the data block level. Data block-level updates are much less resource intensive than either SharePoint or SQL Server full or partial backups.As a result, you can run DPM on a production server during standard business hours!
DPM prov [read].
Posted: Sat, Nov 15th '08 |
Office SharePoint Server performance testing on Hyper-V
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Since we published an initial support and guidance statement for deploying Office SharePoint Server on Hyper-V (Using SharePoint Products and Technologies in a Hyper-V virtual environment), a series of tests were run to measure Office SharePoint Server performance on virtual servers.
These tests collected performance data from small and medium farm configurations deployed on:
Physical servers
Hyper-V virtual servers
Detailed information about our performance tests, results, comparative anal [read].
Posted: Fri, Nov 7th '08 |
Using the new features in SQL Server 2008 with Office SharePoint Server 2007
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SQL Server 2008 includes several new and enhanced features that are important for deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007. New and enhanced SQL Server 2008 features are especially relevant for SharePoint deployments in four principal areas:
Performance
Availability
Security
Resource management
You can improve Office SharePoint Server performance by implementing the new database backup compression feature in SQL Server 2008. The ability to compress database backups is a significant improvement f [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 23rd '08 |
User Profile Replication Engine examples
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Hi. I'm Kirk Stark, a writer on the SharePoint IT Pro UA team.
A new tool that was released with version 2.0 of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit for Office SharePoint 2007 is the User Profile Replication Engine (RE), which permits a Shared Services Provider administrator the ability to replicate user profile data between Shared Services Providers (SSP). The following is a case study on how a fictional company, Contoso, might implement the User Profile Replication Engine in its corporate env [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 21st '08 |
Announcing the Internet presence scenario
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Hi. I’d like to announce the publication of a new scenario describing the creation and deployment of a large enterprise’s Internet presence site based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We authored this scenario as a series of articles describing the various stages in the development of the site, along with an accompanying poster that illustrates the site’s architecture, topology, and other data. We are excited about this scenario because it is comprehensive, describing in an end- [read].
Posted: Fri, Oct 17th '08 |
Best Practices--good, better, best?
To The SharePoint
Hi there—we’re wondering if you've got feedback on the Best Practices Resources Center that we blogged about a couple of weeks ago.
Which is your favorite article?
· Operational Excellence
· Team Collaboration Sites
· Publishing Portals
· Search
· My Sites
Are there any more topics that you’d really like to see a group of best practices developed for?
And, of course, do you have any feedback on what we could do to make the information more discoverable or useful?
Thanks! [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 18th '08 |
NEW! Best Practices Resource Center for MOSS; WSS CHM Download
To The SharePoint
Many issues that customers run into with Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be traced back to a small set of specific design problems. The SharePoint Customer Advisory Team and the Microsoft Consulting Services team for SharePoint have collaborated to bring you a set of guidelines that lay out the best practices for success with Office SharePoint Server 2007. Following these practices will help you avoid some of the common deployment pitfalls and keep your SharePoint environments available and pe [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 2nd '08 |
Introducing the Performance and Capacity Planning Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007
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There is a tremendous wealth of technical performance and capacity–related information available for Office SharePoint Server 2007 on TechNet. I know, because I wrote quite a lot of it. However, the greater the volume of content that becomes available, the harder it can be to find.
Yes; I can hear you now. “Kelley,” you’re saying, “thank you so much for sharing with us this valuable piece of information, that is in no way extremely obvious and well-known by every sentient being in exi [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 26th '08 |
More TOC pruning, this time for Operations
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Freshly updated: Office SharePoint Server Operations TOC.
You seemed to like the tinkering we did in the Planning section for SharePoint Server, so we decided to extend the exercise to the Operations section. We've adopted a structure that is similar to the planning structure, with two main sections for administration tasks:
Site and solution administration contains administration tasks for sites and solutions.
Infrastructure administration contains administration tasks for the infrastructure [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 25th '08 |
Enabling Kerberos authentication for an Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm deployment
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To enable Kerberos authentication for services in Office SharePoint Server 2007, you must create and register Service Principal Names (SPNs) in Active Directory. To create SPNs in an Active Directory domain, you must have domain administrative-level permissions.
Authentication clients
Clients use these registered SPNs to identify each instance of a service. A Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, is the client when you attempt to render a Web page from an Office SharePoint Server 20 [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 21st '08 |
Blogging with the Twynham School IT Team and Shane Young
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By Brenda Carter, IT Pro Technical Writer, SharePoint Products and Technologies
Last March, Shane Young and I sat down with Dave Coleman at the SharePoint conference in Seattle to review the solution design for Twynham School in the UK. Shane Young is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) who has designed solutions for several schools, including the Boulder Valley School District and Central Michigan University. Typically in these sessions Microsoft experts give design guidance to custome [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 18th '08 |
New SharePoint governance content
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Hi. I’m Rob Silver – one of the writers covering SharePoint Products and Technologies for the IT pro audience at Microsoft. I’m excited to announce two new articles that we are publishing this week. They are both related to SharePoint governance. Governance is the set of roles, responsibilities, and processes that you put in place in an enterprise to guide the development, adoption, and use of a solution based on SharePoint Products and Technologies. We know that this is an area of concern [read].
Posted: Fri, Aug 15th '08 |
Hunting for backup, recovery, or availability information? Look no further!
To The SharePoint
We've been working hard behind the scenes, creating diagrams and articles to help you back up and recover MOSS, and plan and configure availability solutions. We've finally published and collected them into a resource center that you can bookmark and come back to.
In one location, you can now find:
Planning and how-to content for backup and recovery.
Pointers on how to use versioning and the recycle bins.
Content describing how to use System Center Data Protection Manager to protect Office [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 13th '08 |
Clearing out the underbrush in the Planning TOC
To The SharePoint
We're tinkering a bit with the Planning section of the technical library. We've gotten feedback that it's tough to find the topics you want, and that there's a lot of extra words in the titles that we just don't need. So we're clearing out some unnecessary...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 4th '08 |
Web content deployment walkthrough and TechNet topics
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Hi, I'm Cern McAtee, a technical writer for Office SharePoint Server 2007. I'm pleased to announce that the Office SharePoint Server 2007 content team and the Global Readiness team have combined efforts to write and publish a new walkthrough guide for...(read more) [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 29th '08 |
You asked for it, you got it: .chm builds of library content
To The SharePoint
A frequent request from customers and partners is to create a download that contains all of the content from our technical library in compiled help format (CHM). Well, it took a while, but due to some positive changes in our authoring environment, we...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 24th '08 |
Announcing: Administering Records Management in Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Hi, my name is Claudia Lake. I am a technical writer on the SharePoint IT Pro documentation team. In response to feedback from users, we have created Administering Records Management , which is a new set of IT Pro documentation on TechNet about records...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 24th '08 |
Using Federated Search in Geographic Environments
To The SharePoint
Greetings, my name is Brenda Carter, I am a technical writer who writes content for the IT Pro audience about Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The purpose of this blog entry is to tell you about the new federated search functionality...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 18th '08 |
Wondering what we've been publishing recently?
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You can subscribe to RSS feeds to find the newly published content in our TechNet libraries. Newly published Office SharePoint Server topics list RSS feed ( http://services.community.microsoft.com/feeds/feed/SharePointServerNewContent ) Newly published...(read more) [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 18th '08 |
Which Microsoft search product is for you?
To The SharePoint
When I first heard about all the flavors of Microsoft enterprise search, I couldn't keep them straight so thought it might help some other folks to know what products are available and why an organization might choose one flavor over another. Microsoft...(read more) [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 17th '08 |
The Infrastructure Update
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The Infrastructure Update is a set of product improvements and prescriptive guidance for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Our favorite features (and the ones we’ve written the most about) include federated search,...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 14th '08 |
Welcome to the official SharePoint IT Pro documentation team blog!
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We're the Microsoft SharePoint IT Pro documentation team. We're passionate about providing the right documentation for anyone who is planning, designing, deploying, managing, or supporting SharePoint in their environment. Our blog is intended to: Help...(read more) [read].
Posted: Sat, Jul 12th '08 |
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