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SharePoint Tidbit - Bringing the data to the user
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14 days ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All,, Being able to bring relevant data to the users is more important than ever in this socially connected world, and the best way to do this with SharePoint 2013 is thru the Web Analytics and the recommendations framework With this version...
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SharePoint Tidbit - Host Named Site Collections are alive and well
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15 days ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, Catching up on my blog reading and when I saw this blog by Kirk Evans on Host named site collections I felt the need to write. What Every SharePoint Admin Needs to Know About Host Named Site Collections http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans...
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SharePoint Tidbits - SharePoint 2013 Friendly Url's
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15 days ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, So raise your hand if you have been sitting there starring at the SharePoint url once you paste it into and e-mail dumbfounded how it can take up 4 lines… I know I have, I’m willing to admit it. Well the Product Group...
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SharePoint Tidbits - SharePoint 2013 Display Template
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20 days ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, In SharePoint 2013 the product group has worked really hard to change the way we consume SharePoint data, trying to make it easy to show relevant data. One of the ways that this being done is the Search Web Parts, and one piece of that...
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SharePoint Tidbits - Microsoft lab environments
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21 days ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, Recently while teaching a workshop to a group of Power Users I was asked how could somebody continue to use the lab environment that was made available to them. Sadly that lab environment was scheduled to be destroyed midnight of the last...
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SharePoint Tidbits - Table/Database locks - Best Practices
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29 days ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, If we look at the previous posting about the causes of locks there are some published Best Practices that we should be following to reduce the deadlocks Large Lists ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262813(v=office.12...
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SharePoint Tidbits - Table/Database locks - What causes these locks
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1 month ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, Depending on which database and table we are locking on there several possible causes, and I want to list out these possible reasons for you. If we don’t schedule the crawls properly, they could interfere with each other and...
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SharePoint Tidbits - Table/Database locks - Troubleshooting steps
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1 month ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, I don't have all the answers but what we can do is get you started down the correct route to figuring out what is going on. This is what I recommend you gather when you have a lock that is interrupting users productivity From SQL: ...
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SharePoint Tidbit - Keeping SharePoint 2013 up to date
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1 month ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, I just wanted to let you know that the Product Group has released an update that must be installed in your farm before you can install any future Service Packs or Cumulative Updates. This applies to both Versions of SharePoint 2013. You...
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SharePoint Tidbit - Creating a more intuitive web site
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3 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, Something that I think will help you with creating a more dynamic web site in SharePoint 2013 is catalog enabled libraries and lists, and the Search web parts. Let me explain myself, starting with the catalog enabled libraries and lists...
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SharePoint Tidbit - Let's talk about Caching - Part 2
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4 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, I had written a tidbit about Caching and one of my customers had some questions and I thought I would share the answers with all of you. Previous Post http://blogs.technet.com/b/christwe/archive/2013/01/24/sharepoint-tidbit-let-s-talk...
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A cool site for end user info on SharePoint
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4 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, I just had this web site pointed out to me when I was discussing end user education and thought I would throw it up here so that everybody would see it http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-help/find-content-about-sharepoint-server...
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SharePoint Tidbit - Let's talk about Caching
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4 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, As the SharePoint environment in your Enterprise matures it is time to move from looking at how to build and maintain it, to how to improve it. These improvements can be centered how applications to improve user interaction, to process improvements...
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Please check your SharePoint on Windows 2008 R2 systems for this issue
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4 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, There has been an issue discovered if you have Windows 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010, and you install any of the following fixes KB2769369, KB2757638, KB2756920, KB2742598, KB2742598, or KB2736418. You may notice the following symptoms ...
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SharePoint Tidbit - Upgrading to SharePoint 2013
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4 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, I have been hearing the buzz of upgrades more and more lately so I thought I would perform a little write-up to explain the upgrade process. NOTE: I will use the words migrate and upgrade as one. I realize they have different meanings but...
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SharePoint Tidbit - Error in SharePoint Management Shell
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5 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, It’s been a while since I wrote up a SharePoint Tidbit, but I thought I had the perfect subject here since I have hit it with a few customers. You open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell and get the following message The local...
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How long does it take?
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5 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, Recently working with a customer we needed to figure out how long it would take to transfer data from staging database to reporting database for the Web Analytics Service in SharePoint 2010, and this is what I found You need to...
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The lost rule
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5 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, Recently I was working with one of my customers they had setup Web Analytics in SharePoint 2010, and wanted to test how effective it was. They started running a script against the environment that made web connections to a ton of pages and...
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Time to look at Records Management
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5 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Definition of Records Management The ISO 15489-1: 2001 standard ("ISO 15489-1:2001") defines records management as "[the] field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition...
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Merry Christmas
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5 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Thank you all for following me or just stumbling across me, hope you have a fun and Safe Christmas
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Creating custom profile properties in MOSS 2007
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6 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Customer was going to create a custom SharePoint property to import info from Active Directory but when they tried to setup the Directory portion they had no connections or attributes to select from. And saw this message The selection of directory...
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Uploading pictures from SharePoint to Active Directory attribute thumbnailPhoto
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6 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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My customer recently had some issues exporting Picture from SharePoint My Site to Active Directory using the ThumbnailPhoto attribute. What was happening is that User Profile Application was not exporting all pictures and Full imports were deleting all...
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Error about corrupted Installation database...what does it mean?
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6 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Hello All, I have noticed recently that I have had some several customers all with the same issue, and that is some administrator received an alert that the system drive was low on drive space and they went to fix it. Before I started working for...
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Change Password for Service account in SharePoint
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6 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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Recently had a customer ask me about how to do this so wrote this little article and thought I would share it with you. SharePoint 2007 There will be two times when you want to reset passwords in MOSS. In a planned fashion possibly due to...
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Error exporting picture from UPA to Active Directory
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6 months ago
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Chris We - MSFT
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While trying to export the picture from SharePoint My Sites to the Active Directory attribute ThumbnailPhoto my customer was getting the following error Error 8311 in Application logs which contained data like the following An operation failed because...
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