Ali Sedehi

We just did a FAST for SharePoint 2010 install & configuration at a client yesterday. The client had multiple servers; one admin and two non-admin servers. Great documentation is provided on TechNet, and really should be the outline that you use: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381267.aspx Make sure you pay attention to the hardware/software requirements; Windows Firewall needs to […]

I got a call from one of my clients Friday trying to do a restore of one of their site collections from their dev to test site, but getting an error everytime they tried to do a restore. I jumped on a webex with them and watched them as they ran the powershell, Restore-SPSite. The […]

SharePoint 2010 offers a new way of looking at the world, the Activity Feed (a.k.a the “My Newsfeed” section of your My Site). There seems to be plenty of confusion on what exactly is tracked in your Activity Feed, who sees what, and when it shows up on the site.

First things first…the Activity Feed works on a timer job, one of many jobs that make up the User Profile Service Application (Service Applications have replaced the SSP from MOSS 2007). This job can be configured to run on any schedule you choose. SharePoint defaults to hourly, but this can changed easily enough. Every time the job runs, a crawler goes out, scans the farm, aggregates recently submitted activities and shoves them into their own database. Once inside the Activity Feed database, the activity is now available on your My Newsfeed (and via the Activity Feed APIs via the SharePoint Object Model…more on that in a future post).