The product group released the April 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family.
The KB articles will be available in a couple of days at the following locations:
The Full Server Packages for April 2013 CU are available through the following links:Source : Stefan Gobner - TechNet Blogs
- Download WSS 3.0 April 2013 CU
- Download MOSS 2007 April 2013 CU
- After installing the fixes you need to run the SharePoint Configuration Wizard on each machine in the farm.
Learn about the features and functionality that are deprecated in SharePoint 2013.Complete article : Changes from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013
Many companies are happy with the features SharePoint provides out of the box. Usually the only customization they want to do is change the webpage layouts and design to make them go along with their corporate design. For this purpose, they have a production SharePoint farm and one for test purposes. The customizations are done with SharePoint Designer on the test farm, and after they have been tested thoroughly they are rolled out to the production farm. But, more often than not, the day comes when SharePoint Designer isn’t enough and the SharePoint developer has to take the next step up to Visual Studio.
Source : 4sysops.com
I’ve always been a little bit reluctant to use Microsoft Log Parser. I know it’s really powerfull, but it’s command line interface is not really fun to use.
Last week I decided to give it another try and I discovered Log Parser Lizard (better late than never). It’s a FREE GUI Tool to use the Log Parser API. It’s a must have !
We are pleased to announce the availability of Service Pack 3 (SP3) for our 2007 family of products.
Visio shapes to use to create models of server deployment environments.
Download this zip file of Microsoft Visio stencils to create your own diagrams for models of server deployments. For examples of how the IT pro content publishing team for Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Project Server 2010, Microsoft Search Server 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation used these shapes, see these pages:
Download details Visio shapes for SharePoint Server, Project Server, Search Server, and Office Posters
- Office 2010 technical diagrams
- SharePoint Server technical diagrams
- SharePoint Foundation technical diagrams
Source : Bink.nu
Watch a couple of interviews that highlight how SharePoint was used to implement solutions for the University of Washington, Foster School of Business and the Lake Washington School District.
Source : Get the 'Point: Posts
Recently Microsoft published the security update MS10-039 for Sharepoint. You may want to read the following articles BEFORE applying that update :
Download and print a reference chart of default user groups and their associated permission levels for SharePoint Server 2010.
Source : Get the 'Point: Posts
Download this Microsoft Excel 2010 template
This page contains resources to help you with capacity management in your Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment—map your solution design to a farm size and set of hardware that supports your business goals.
Additional content is under development. Check back for new and updated content.
Extra cool, did you know Ferrari official web site is build on SharePoint ?
They won the #1 SharePoint Site for 2009 from www.topsharepoint.com
I know what’s your gone say: “it’s easy just add the Windows group in the Farm Administrator’s group from Central Admin”. You’re almost right.
Here’s the thing :
One of our developers created a custom “Self-Service Site Creation” application. Has you know, to be able to create a new site collection you must be a member of the “Farm Administrator’s group”, so his application has to do an impersonate with an account that is a member of that group.
We always prefer to use Windows Groups (when possible), so we have created a new windows group “SharePoint Farm Admins”, added the impersonated user in that group and added that group to the SharePoint Administrator’s group.
Here’s the problem :
When the Self-Service Site Creation application try to create a new site collection an error is generated :
Insufficient SQL database permissions for user ‘***** ’in database 'SharePoint_AdminContent_******’ on SQL Server instance ‘****’. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below. The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object …
Here’s the solution :
Just logon once in Central Admin with your impersonated account and recyle the application pool in IIS.
Here’s the explanation :
I’m not a SharePoint engineer (so I could be wrong), but as I understand it any account that logon to SharePoint must have a profile stored in the database (tables UserInfo and AllUserData in SharePoint_AdminCoutent DB ). When you logon for the first time through a SharePoint page a new profile is created by SharePoint. When you use system’s API to do an impersonate the new profile doesn’t get created at your first logon, so you get an error.
That’s why you simply have to logon once to Central Admin, your new profile gets created and everything starts to work after that.
| Note : | This type of profile is not visible in any Central Admin’s UI pages. You have to dig in SharePoint DB to see it. |
Like most .NET developers I had looked as Access as more of a file format than an application, something from the past.
So enters Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Access Services, for me this changes the game. For those who don’t know this technology, you can create an Access database locally on your PC then publish it to SharePoint. Tables become SharePoint lists, macros become workflows and forms well become forms. Access becomes a RAD tool to create data driven SharePoint sites.
Source : Richard Fennell
As you probably know, Visual Studio 2010 was announced last week and it contains a lot of great features and project templates for SharePoint developers. Below is a short overview for some of the SharePoint development related features and project templates.
- Configurable deployment
- Sandboxed and farm solutions
- Extending SharePoint Tools
- Feature and Package Designer
- SharePoint Explorer
- SharePoint Project and Project Item Templates
- Project Templates
- Project Item Templates
Source : Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog
At the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft unveiled SharePoint 2010 with an impressive display of functionality and confidence.
Today, you will experience a tsunami of information about SharePoint 2010. There is no lack of surprises and announcements.
The list is so long that all I can do is list right now--hopefully this will help you spot the features and value propositions that are meaningful to your enterprise.
Great post by Dan Holme, a must read.
Watch out developpers, you can now develop on a Windows 7 or Vista client running SharePoint (yes!).
Source : windowsitpro.com
We teamed up with Aptimize Software to optimize SharePoint.Microsoft.com for high performance.
Today’s guest post is by Ed Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of Aptimize Software. This post will review how we did it and the underlying performance techniques that improved the page loading speed of the SharePoint marketing website. We hope you can leverage the same process to optimize performance for other websites.
Tony Tai
SharePoint Senior Product Manager
Source : Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog
Great tools for any SharePoint Admin :
and more…
| ref : | Announcing the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit SharePoint Administration Toolkit (TechNet) Download (x86) Download (x64) |
There has been a lot of great discussion out there recently about the importance of end user engagement and change management to a successful SharePoint deployment. Your SharePoint solution may be technically brilliant, but if nobody uses it, it won’t be a success. And getting people to use SharePoint often involves getting them to change how they work…or how they think they need to work.
If you are involved with deploying SharePoint in your organization, these links might help you think about how you can integrate a bit of change management into your end user training.
Read the article : Get the 'Point
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