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  • Blog Post: Tip 17: That’s A Lot of Commands

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Did you know that in WSS 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 there are > 200 stsadm.exe commands? Please see the following link for a complete reference; http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...
    on 10 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: SharePoint Tip of the Day on Break

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    SharePoint Tip of the Day will be back Monday January 4, 2010. Some good tips on the way, so be on the lookout next year. Happy Holidays!
    on 22 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 9: Adding Accounts to a Site

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. The reason I didn’t say in the title of this post “Adding Users to a Site” is that the best practice...
    on 30 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 28: Keep Slim and Trim

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 , SharePoint Portal Server 2003 , Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 , Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 , SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 . To reduce update surface and reduce conflicts, it is always a good idea to only load...
    on 11 Jan 2010

  • Blog Post: Tip 43: SharePoint 2010 - Create a New Active Directory Attribute and Map into the User Profile Store

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for SharePoint Server 2010 . I had this post sitting for a bit in my drafts and decided I should put it out there. User profiles have been getting a lot of attention with SharePoint 2010. In this post I am going to show you how you can create your very own Active Directory attribute...
    on 5 Aug 2011

  • Blog Post: Tip 32: Are My Servers Offloading?

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 , SharePoint Portal Server 2003 , Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 , Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 , SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 when running on Windows 2003 SP1 w/ Scalable Networking Pack and versions of Windows since...
    on 12 Feb 2010

  • Blog Post: Introducing SharePoint Tip of the Day

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    In the spirit of Sara Ford's Visual Studio 2008 Tip of the Day ( http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/07/21/introducing-visual-studio-2008-tip-of-the-day.aspx ); I am going to attempt to put out a SharePoint Tip of the Day. I will not be version specific, so tips can be from SharePoint 2001/SharePoint...
    on 13 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Clarity on Microsoft Security Advisory 2416728 and WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    UPDATE 8:39P 9/21/2010 - Looks like the SharePoint Team blog post has been updated with new information. While you could do the steps below for WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007, they are not needed. Only SharePoint 2010 and WSS 2.0 are affected. There have been some questions on whether or not WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007...
    on 21 Sep 2010

  • Blog Post: Tip 18: Trust in Thy SharePoint

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. When entering an account to a securable SharePoint object, the “Check Names” function is...
    on 11 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 2: Updating Big Content Farms

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
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    on 17 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 4: No Mouse, No Problem

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
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    on 19 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 35: Run Every Timer Job Now!

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for SharePoint Foundation 2010 , SharePoint Server 2010 and Search Server 2010 Express . Are you sick of waiting for a timer job to run? Don't want to use the "Run Now" button in the timer job definitions properties page in Central Administration->Monitoring->Review Job Definitions...
    on 25 Jun 2010

  • Blog Post: Tip 7: Set Diagnostic Logging Back to Defaults

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. One great way to troubleshoot any SharePoint issue is to set the SharePoint diagnostics logging to “ Verbose ” for the category...
    on 24 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 30: Better Logs = Better Troubleshooting

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip pertains to all versions of SharePoint and no versions of SharePoint. It is really more of an IIS troubleshooting tip. But we’ll let it slide for today. :) The extended logging options in IIS can help in troubleshooting issues in SharePoint. HTTP status code logging can help with unauthorized...
    on 20 Jan 2010

  • Blog Post: How to use Sysinternals Process Monitor and Process Explorer to Troubleshoot SharePoint

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    Sysinternals Process Tools Descriptions and Information The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information. Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. These tools are not loaded on Windows operating...
    on 30 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 37: Dedicated Crawl Servers in SharePoint 2010

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for SharePoint Server 2010 and Search Server 2010 Express . In the olden days MOSS 2007 ;) you could set a dedicated web front end for crawling which is used to reduce the stress of crawling from other web front end servers that users use to browse. This setting is for the entire...
    on 10 Aug 2010

  • Blog Post: Tip 16: Moving the Default Logging Location

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. SharePoint logs are a great source to find in-depth information on what is going on inside SharePoint...
    on 9 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 15: An unspecified Error Has Occurred

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. Did you know that administrators can enable more verbose exception messages by editing the information...
    on 8 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: My Memberships & Profile Information

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    on 23 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 14: Virtual SharePoint

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0/3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. With data center consolidation, green data centers and resource efficiency being the trend. Where does...
    on 7 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 21: Don't Read That SharePoint ULS Log

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. A very good tool to use when troubleshooting SharePoint are the Unified Logging Service (ULS) logs located at %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft...
    on 16 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 8: What Is a Configuration Cache and Why Do I Care About It?

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. Many times when troubleshooting an issue with Microsoft the engineer will have a customer “ Clear the Config Cache ”, so what...
    on 25 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 20: “Papers Please!”, or SharePoint Extranet Authentication

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Did you know that you have many options available for account storage and authentication in extranet scenarios in SharePoint by using Forms Based Authentication ? Here is a list of just some of the different...
    on 15 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 3: Better Upgrade Troubleshooting

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...
    on 18 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Tip 26: Separation of Authentication

    Chad Schultz - MSFT
    This tip is for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and may apply to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. Take the following example. You have a SharePoint web application with both NTLM and anonymous authentication enabled. You leave the default...
    on 7 Jan 2010