These articles are related to SharePoint administration tips, best practices and other areas of administration.
BLOB caching, or disk-based caching, is an out of the box (OOTB) caching mechanism that is built into the MOSS 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010 platforms. It is commonly used to speed-up access to large and relatively static resources that are stored in co
Lately, there has been growing demand for information about Windows Powershell. The reason is because it is so powerful and easy to use. The built-in commands can handle administrative tasks that are just not possible through Central Administration. Altho
Adding value to SharePoint by customizing the default (Out Of The Box) site definition can cause issues when it's time to run a service pack update.
The idea behind the SharePoint Recycle Bin is the same as that of Windows, but we have more granular control in SharePoint. So how does the Recycle Bin work in SharePoint? How do you configure it? What are the different stages of the Recycle Bin in ShareP
SharePoint Administrators often need to create several installations of SharePoint which may be used for development, testing, staging and production environments. Inconsistencies in these installations will often cause inexplicable problems and much time
Do users complain about SharePoint performance? Prior to SharePoint 2010, tracking down performance bottlenecks might involve attaching a debugger to code and enabling a trace from the SQL Server Profiler. Now, with SharePoint 2010, you can use a cool new
As a SharePoint Administrator, there might be a time when you would need to restore only some but not all content within a content database. How would you do that in SharePoint 2010? Read on to find out...
As a SharePoint Administrator, you would often need to deploy content from one site to another. So what are different options available to export the contents of a site, library, or list from SharePoint and to import it back whenever required?
What new options are available in SharePoint 2010 for site collection backup and restore?
So what are the 'out of the box' Backup and Restore options available in SharePoint 2010? How do we backup the SharePoint farm, web applications and different components? How have Backup and Restore processes have improved from previous versions of Share
This article deals with SharePoint Custom Timer jobs. It outlines when to create Custom Timer Jobs, how to create a Custom Timer Job, how to debug it in Visual Studio and how to deploy it.
After migrating your SharePoint 2007 content database to your new x64 SharePoint 2010 farm you receive errors when trying to use or activate the SharePoint Publishing feature.
Running SharePoint Central Administration from more than one server.
On very rare occasions, it is possible to receive an error when trying to delete a particular portal site with the SharePoint Central Administration application. To circumvent this error, one can delete the portal site using the SQL Server management tool
Windows SharePoint Service is an add-on service of the Windows Server OS. So how do we install this service, configure it and get started to leverage these powerful features?
Getting ready for SharePoint Foundation 2010, let's review the installation prerequisites.
What options are available to backup my data in a SharePoint 2010?
Learn how to fix the Open with Windows Explorer option on a SharePoint document library does not open Windows Explorer.
SharePoint logs information to the Windows Event log and a file on the local drive. The log files on disk can be very hard to read using notepad or other basic programs.
Taking control over Sharepoint Checked Out Doucments
How to direct Sharepoint Access Requests to a different user.