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In the next version of SharePoint it is clear that Microsoft thought out the backup/restore strategy a bit more than MOSS. If you are someone that has ever had to do a subsite restore from a content database, you know what I am talking about. I will break down the three top improvements when it […]

Setting up SharePoint 2010 in a single server environment is even easier than it was on MOSS. The Microsoft SharePoint Product and Technologies 14 Preparation Tool (or as I like to call it the prep tool) takes a wizard approach to checking for and then setting up perquisites for SharePoint’s installation. The prep tool (packaged […]

So, after spending a lot more time than I would have liked on locking down the sessions I want to attend at the SPC, I finally narrowed it down to these. Due to my background in development, most of these are development tracks. I plan on watching the IT tracks once they are available online. […]

When preparing to upgrade SharePoint 2007 to 2010 you will need to run the pre-upgrade scan tool include with SharePoint 2007 SP2 as in the article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262231.aspx. When completed, you may see upgrade scan failures for orphaned site collections such as the one below. Removing these orphaned sites is important for a clean migration. There […]

I have often found that I need to quickly get at the fields defined on a SharePoint list. PowerShell provides an easy mechanism for getting at this and any other data exposed by the SharePoint object model. Here are the steps to follow to get at the field definitions on a list called "test" in […]

So, after a really long time, I am getting back to blogging about SharePoint. Can’t be a better time than this as I get ready to attend the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas with about 7000 SharePoint Peeps. It’s going to be fantastic. So, to start out, here is some information I gathered in preparation […]

In my previous post, I went through the details of setting up a read-only BCS entity using Visual Studio. Now we will explore how to make our entity read/write. To add create, update, and delete capabilities to our entity we first need to go add these methods to our entity in the model. 1) Add […]

In SharePoint 2010, the Business Data Catalog has been renamed Business Connectivity Services or BCS. SharePoint 2010 also includes a new type of BCS entity based on a .NET type. Using Visual Studio 2010, you can create a .NET BCS entity to connect to data in any line-of-business system via code. In this first post […]

With SharePoint 2010, PowerShell replaces STSADM as the preferred administrative shell for SharePoint. STSADM will remain for backwards compatibility purposes, but there are many reasons to make the switch to PowerShell. First, there are nearly 500 SharePoint related cmdlets available out-of-the-box which cover all of the functionality available through STSADM plus much more. Second, it […]

Here is a generic extension method to get back an enum value from a string. It improves upon the Enum.Parse method by doing the following: 1) it encapsulates the cast of the value to the enum type; 2) supports an optional case-insensitive search; and 3) returns a boolean to indicate success or failure (rather than […]

As a follow up to my previous post on the CWA PIN Length issue – I have something that solves the issue – for now. Of course it’s not officially supported by Microsoft etc. etc. (MS says it will be fixed in Wave 14… grr!!!) but I think this a pretty clean way to change […]

In the next version of SharePoint it is clear that Microsoft thought out the backup/restore strategy a bit more than MOSS. If you are someone that has ever had to do a subsite restore from a content database, you know what I am talking about. I will break down the three top improvements when it […]