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Migrate Content in SharePoint 2010

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:31:11 +0000

Migrate Content in SharePoint 2010 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Migrate Content in SharePoint 2010 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:26:34 +0000

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Using SharePoint Offline with SharePoint Workspace – Part 2

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:18:35 +0000

Using SharePoint Offline with SharePoint Workspace – Part 2 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Using SharePoint Offline with SharePoint Workspace – Part 2 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Diagnostic Logging in SharePoint

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:53:59 +0000

Diagnostic Logging in SharePoint is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Diagnostic Logging in SharePoint is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Monitoring Site Usage in SharePoint

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:53:18 +0000

Monitoring Site Usage in SharePoint is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Monitoring Site Usage in SharePoint is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Using SharePoint Offline with SharePoint Workspace

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:31:12 +0000

Using SharePoint Offline with SharePoint Workspace is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Using SharePoint Offline with SharePoint Workspace is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

SharePoint 2010 Service Applications Architecture (SSA)

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 05:39:12 +0000

SharePoint 2010 Service Applications Architecture (SSA) is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

SharePoint 2010 Service Applications Architecture (SSA) is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

SharePoint 2010 Backup and Restore – What’s New

admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:47:04 +0000

SharePoint 2010 Backup and Restore – What’s New is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

SharePoint 2010 Backup and Restore – What’s New is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Getting Started with PowerShell for SharePoint

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:05:29 +0000

Getting Started with PowerShell for SharePoint is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Getting Started with PowerShell for SharePoint is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Auto Refresh Web Parts in SharePoint 2010

admin — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:58:24 +0000

Auto Refresh Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Auto Refresh Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Migrate MOSS 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010.

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:42:01 +0000

Migrate MOSS 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010. is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Migrate MOSS 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010. is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Getting Started with the SharePoint 2010 Excel Services

Stephan Zahariev — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:30 +0000

Getting Started with the SharePoint 2010 Excel Services is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Getting Started with the SharePoint 2010 Excel Services is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Building Custom Workflows using SharePoint Designer 2010

Stephan Zahariev — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:42:13 +0000

Building Custom Workflows using SharePoint Designer 2010 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Building Custom Workflows using SharePoint Designer 2010 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Building Approval Workflows with SharePoint Server 2010

Stephan Zahariev — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:36:19 +0000

Building Approval Workflows with SharePoint Server 2010 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Building Approval Workflows with SharePoint Server 2010 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]

Difference between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:10:06 +0000

Difference between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor

Difference between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 is an article from: Sharepoint Monitor 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 [...]