Tony Pagnusat

Perficient’s Microsoft team is excited to announce the promotion of David Greve to National Cloud Enablement Director! Perficient’s Microsoft team is more that just Microsoft’s 2013 US Partner of the Year award winner, we are Microsoft cloud computing experts. David’s role in the organization will ensure that Perficient continues to lead with the cloud when […]

This has been an incredibly exciting week at Perficient. Earlier this week we were named Microsoft’s United States Partner of the Year. This recognition is not to be taken lightly. We were hand picked out of every partner in the United States and declared the most critical to Microsoft’s business. The award isn’t specific to any one region […]

It’s a very exciting day for Microsoft today as they release the RTM versions of both Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 to MSDN – Official communication came from the Windows App Developer Blog, here. Both releases are pivotal to Microsoft’s core business and will truly change the way that people interact with their desktop… I’m sorry device. […]

One major drawback to SharePoint 2010’s installation is the way the installer chooses a name for your databases. It also appends a very easy to remember GUID to the database name as well that makes referencing your databases quite a challenge. In 2007 you could easily mitigate this using psconfig to setup your configuration databases […]

SharePoint 2010 RC has some noticeable changes mostly in performance and setup. One good piece of news is that if you setup your profile import incorrectly the first time you can usually go back and fix it without having to rebuild your server/farm. The error logging has become a great deal more effective so tracking […]

If you weren’t already aware, Microsoft release an out-of-band update (not release during the normal Windows Updates Cycle) on Thursday that impacts almost all versions of Windows and IE. You need to get this installed ASAP. Details from Microsoft are listed below. This alert is to provide you with an overview of Microsoft Security Bulletin […]

Just a word to the wise, if you are looking to setup SharePoint Server 2010 you may want to use Windows Server 2008, not R2. Otherwise when you go to setup The User Profile Service Application you are going to get the issue below. Unrecognized attribute ‘allowInsecureTransport’. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:Program FilesCommon […]

I was doing an Stsadm addcontentdb in SharePoint 2010 and noticed that there is a percentage meter that runs to let you know how far along your process is. This is great news for anyone that has imported a large site and wondered if it was actually working or if SharePoint was hung up.

One of the major improvements in SharePoint 2010 is the ability to centrally manage your farm health directly from SharePoint Central Administration. The Health Status menu gives you an at-a-glance view of services and issues on the farm as well as a place to fix these issues. Located in the Monitoring section of Central Administration, […]

Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be more reasons to use Windows 7; I will throw one more out there, mounting VHD files directly to your workstation. There have been countless occasions where I needed something off of a VHD and I would need to boot up the virtual or install Virtual PC just […]

Here’s the situation: you have a top-level site collection with a Search Center, FYI Search Centers are automatically created for Publishing and Collaboration Site Templates. You have other scopes and can see them in the Search Scopes from Site Collection Administration but you only see one from the search bar at the top of the […]

Last week after the most recent Microsoft Updates were applied SharePoint Search stopped working on one of my MOSS Farms. All searches at that the site level would display no results. Upon checking the SSP I received the following error for each of my SharePoint Content Sources, “Access is denied. Check that the Default Content […]