These articles are related to SharePoint administration tips, best practices and other areas of administration.
I'm a DBA and I need to understand how to create SharePoint content databases and map out which site collections get stored in a particular content database. I've read the tip Managing SharePoint Content Databases with PowerShell, but I would rather lear
Your Boss tells you that the budget has been freed up and new capital for upgrades will be available next year. Thus we will be purchasing SQL 2008R2 and MOSS 2010. He wants you to determine an upgrade plan and any initial tips on performing the upgrade
Your Boss tells you that the budget has been freed up and new capital upgrading MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. He wants you to confirm what versions need to be purchased and see if we can run through a test upgrade over the next few weeks on a test box tha
SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1, released in June 2011, has extended the recycle bin to allow Administrators to recover deleted sites and site collections.
The scope of this tip is to explain the ways to handle performance issues on a customized SharePoint application. Usually these kind of performance issues happen due to the way in which the SharePoint API has been used in the code or due to the applicatio
SharePoint provides My Site, a central location to maintain contact, document and links to every individual in the web application. But sometimes user actions do not show in Recent Actities, giving the message There are no activities in your news feed
There are situations when we need to provide access to a SharePoint site for users that are external to our domain. They could be clients, partners or vendors. We do not want to add these users to our Active Directory, so NTLM authentication is not an opt
Active Directory (AD) is an obvious choice for a user information store in Microsoft server environments. But if the requirement is to have an isolated light weight user store, Active Directory would be overkill or may not be appropriate.
Troubleshooting with trace files is good but wouldn't it be cool if we have all the logging (usage and health) information on single place in consolidated form which help you to build reports and do analysis on collected data from all the servers of the f
For diagnostic logging, the Unified Logging Service (ULS) has been available since previous versions of SharePoint. But what improvements and refinements have been done in SharePoint 2010? What are the options available for diagnostic logging in SharePoin
SharePoint 2010 has come up with an 'out of the box' Health Analyzer feature which alerts you about the potential problems, and the locations where they occurred, the cause and how to resolve these issues. Let's explore it more.
If there are issues with SharePoint a key thing to track down and debug issues is tp enable debugging which is covered in this article.
At some point SharePoint developers will need to trace, log and debug their code when they get tripped up with bugs or any weird things when building custom solutions, applications, or components for SharePoint.
As part of migrating the MOSS 2007 portal and site contents to SharePoint 2010, moving the existing User Profiles and MySites is also critical. This important task usually leaves a big headache for IT system administrators.
If you try to log in to the SharePoint web application (http://site.company.com) using host header on the server itself, your windows credential doesn’t work but you can access the same site from outside.
While configuring SharePoint 2010 using the GUI, the Central Administration (CA) content database name will have a GUID in it (long 36 character alphanumeric string). This is not a real problem but it looks annoying. Moreover a custom name would make it
SharePoint administrators need to run regular backups using PowerShell, the STSADM tool or in Central Administration. There is no built in way to automate these backups. Wouldn't it be great to devise a method to automated these jobs?
You want to use PowerShell to administer your WSS 3.0 or SharePoint 2007 farm.
Generally you open a document library in Windows Explorer view to move items or documents in bulk to other document libraries. This approach doesn't maintain the current item or document's metadata properties like Modified (DateTime) and Modified by.
Many applications need Claim Based Authentication instead of Classic Mode Authentication. The Form Based Authentication (FBA) is one type of Claim Based Authentication. The default login page of FBA in SharePoint 2010 is very simple which only provides a
The Enterprise has embraced SharePoint technology and generates a large amount of data on the server. As disk space is consumed, at times, content size might exceed the maximum storage limit of a site collection. At such time when any user attempts to cre
As a SharePoint Administrator, you'll have to deal with downtime while these updates install. Some updates may even require reboots, disconnecting from the farm and running PSConfig. This will potentially cause hours of downtime for the entire farm.
To apply customizations to all team sites in your SharePoint instance and to automate them such that every new team site comes with your customization by default, you can use Feature Stapling.
When SharePoint goes wrong or you need to do some advanced configuration, you are often referred to a tool called STSADM. This article gives you an overview of that tool.