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In this tutorial I will describe  how to migrate  content between SharePoint site collections and even entire farms. Very often you need to clone, copy or just create testing environment out of your production sites so the good migration procedures are essential to every SharePoint administrator. The best tool for content migration is the export / import functionality.
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Business Connectivity Services (BCS) are the   upgraded version of Business Data Catalog  from SharePoint Server 2007. BCS allow you to connect your SharePoint based content with external data (often called LOB Data – Line Of Business Data). With this powerful functionality you can read the data from external sources and  edit them directly from SharePoint sites or web [...]

In Using SharePoint Offline Part I we looked at the SharePoint Workspace  configuration tool, the installation and  the available settings  to be configured. Now   actually use the offline features of SharePoint 2010 with SharePoint Workspace 2010.
There are two ways to synchronize SharePoint content with your local offline store -
Synchronizing  SharePoint Site content using the SharePoint [...]

SharePoint includes diagnostic logging and event reporting that can used to troubleshoot errors may be encountered in SharePoint. The below steps will enable SharePoint diagnostic logging:

Navigate to the Operations page on the Central Administration site.
Select Diagnostic Logging in the Logging and Reporting section and the Diagnostic Logging page will appear.
On the [...]

A frequent issue with SharePoint is that admins have little  idea how it is being used. SharePoint does however provide several tools for monitoring  usage and capturing and reporting  errors.  Both WSS and MOSS provide comprehensive site usage  reports which are available at all the levels of the server farm from the SSP to each individual [...]

What is SharePoint Workspace 2010?
SharePoint Workspace 2010 is a tool that simply takes your SharePoint sites offline. With only few mouse clicks you can synchronize all your online SharePoint libraries and documents, and store them locally on your compute and you are no longer tied to the company network. After offline work, when you go [...]

If you have any experience in administering MOSS farms, you probably already know how isolated Shared Service Providers (SSPs) can be and how extremely difficult is to restore an SSP in case of disaster recovery. The good news is that for SharePoint 2010 SSPs are gone and we now we have more flexible [...]

SharePoint Server 2010 Backup and Restore
SharePoint 2010 Backups are a major advance over the backup facilities in SharePoint 2007. SharePoint can now easily maintain full backups and even granular backups, where only selected data can be restored. For this article I will demonstrate how to use PowerShell to backup and [...]

Windows PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language designed especially for system administration. Built on the .NET Framework, Windows PowerShell™ helps IT professionals and power users control and automate the administration of the Windows operating system and applications that run on Windows.
Built-in Windows PowerShell commands, called cmdlets, let you manage the computers in [...]

Automatic page refreshes were a big pain point in SharePoint 2007. If you had a  page or list that you wished  to   refresh at regular intervals, so it the event that another user entered   items, the screen would update, there was no easy/direct way of doing this. You could of could add <meta http-equi=”refersh” [...]

Microsoft recently released the Beta version of SharePoint Server 2010. Microsoft claims that migrating from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 is a easy and straightforward, however, I remember when migrating from SharePoint 2003 to 2007 the process was painful and difficult and there were several  incompatible elements that had to be dealt with. So I approached [...]

Microsoft Excel is the most popular spreadsheet application used in every office. As such SharePoint Server provides special support for it. In the current article, we will review SharePoint Excel Services and  publish a sample spreadsheet using Excel services.
Microsoft Office Excel is powerful but not perfect. For example if you want a colleague to preview [...]

SharePoint 2010 comes with several inbuilt workflow templates, such as one for document approval. Sometimes these templates are not suitable and new workflows need to be created.  You can do this in one of the following ways:

Using the SharePoint Designer.
Designing the workflow in Microsoft Office Visio and importing into the SharePoint Designer.
Writing programming code inside [...]

Workflows (sequences of connected steps) are an everyday occurrence in most offices and as such, SharePoint 2010 provides support for workflows. In this article we review how to add an approval workflow to a SharePoint Document Library.
The approval workflow is one of the few built-in workflows that come with the SharePoint 2010. Basically it allows [...]

SharePoint is one of the buzzwords that are used almost in every office. When a newbie enters in the world of the SharePoint technologies, one of the first questions  is: “What is the difference between the available distributions?” Generally there are two main distributions: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 [...]