Time for an ‘infrastructure musling’… Consider that if you have an environment which is low on resources, you may find that through creating web applications in the SharePoint 2010 farm that further attempts to create a new web application through Central Administration could...

Hi, booked way back to go to the London SharePoint conference taking place next week – going to be exciting to meet up with friends and make plenty of new ones, and learn learn learn! Was really hoping to speak at the conference, but alas, a little too late for my submission,...

Just back from holidays and back into the throes of things – checking my mails find one from a client stating they want to migrate some of their in-premise SharePoint to SharePoint online. To give this more of a scenario, here goes. The client is using SharePoint in-premise with Microsoft...

I have been asked by quite a few people on listing documents from document libraries that include sub-folders; so I’d like to share with you a poor-man method of listing all files and folders in a document library in SharePoint with hundreds of files and folders, and displaying the...

Time to tell a tale of a rather interesting scenario concerning deploying Office Web Applications to a SharePoint farm. The installation of the product was intended to go directly after the initial deploy of SharePoint to the servers in the farm. Following the installation of the prerequisites...

One of the most difficult areas to engage users with in the adoption of SharePoint is sometimes wrongly perceieved to be the easiest because the assumption is the user must already be using the product. And when needing to get users productive with their client and web app Office 2010, there...

You may come across this error when attempting to carry out a PSConfig upgrade using office2010-kb2597014-fullfile-x64-glb An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException was thrown. Additional exception information: An update conflict has occurred, and...

While configuring FAST Search needed to configure Fast Search Keywords. So, visiting Site Settings for the FAST Search Centre and clicking FAST Search keywords displayed this:     Unexpected error occurred while communicating with Administration Service. Trying to access Fast Search...

Time to talk about an unsung hero in the provision of Search features supporting SharePoint starring Microsoft Office. In many scenarios, while building content using Microsoft Office application, one may need to look-up certain, terms, phrases, concepts, etc to complement content. For this...

Back from a long haul writing the 2nd book – Whew! Back to the articles. With the large amount of training resources out there, this is my take on the different types of training I’ve seen so far, along with some places and the reasoning behind the training provision. If you can...

Had some fun with the Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010 today… Now, for those who don’t know about the Productivity Hub, go here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=7122 The Hub gets installed into a Site Collection. So, after downloading then unpacking the Hub,...

Users focus on email as the key productivity hub. Therefore, Microsoft Outlook is seen as the application that gets the most attention. To ensure that users can still access SharePoint document libraries without having to visit the document library, document libraries can be linked to...

Fun and laughter installing the June CU 2011 for SharePoint Server. After installing the CU, and then running an update as per the instructions at: You may get this error just after step 2 of the Config Wizard: === An exception of type...

A SharePoint Contact list can be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook; so that features available in Microsoft Outlook contacts would be available to a SharePoint Contact list displayed in Outlook. Another benefit of this approach is that users would be able to see all their contacts in...

Well, its been sooo busy with me writing the MOS Study Sharepoint section for the MOS exam 77-886, and being inundated with queries concerning what is the best study guide to use for SharePoint, that I thought lets drop my thoughts in this short blog for you to mull over. As you are most...

If you carry out Exports and Imports using the good ole stsadm –o commands this will may be of interest if you run into the following error: Content deployment job ‘Remote import job for job with sourceID = <id>’ failed.The exception thrown was...

Scenario is a two front end, index and crawl server which had just been migrated into a new server group in a different datacentre. Following the migration and startup, Front End servers both show this message every 15 minutes: The Usage Data Import timer job failed. You can rerun this job...

Best way to start is to show you those errors in the good ole event log: Error 1001: Fault bucket , type 0 Event Name: CLR20r3 Response: Not available Cab Id: 0 Problem signature: P1: owstimer.exe P2: 14.0.5128.5000 P3: 4cace1f1 P4: mscorlib P5: 2.0.0.0 P6: 4bebe8e2 P7: 420f P8:...

This article explains how to install the PDF filtering ability in SharePoint 2010. As you may be aware, without this ability text within PDF files will not be included in any SharePoint index, and as such, only the PDF filename itself will be indexed. As always with any third party...