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This blog is created by Microsoft MEA HQ near shoring team, and it aims to share knowledge with the IT community.With its infrastructure and development sides,It brings to you the proven best practices and real world experiences from Subject Matter Experts

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  • Blog Post: Finding unused fields in InfoPath From

    Introduction As I was working with one of the projects I had a customized InfoPath Form that has 100's of fields and multiple Views. As I was going though I had a concern that a lot of these fields were not used, so how to find which fields are used and which aren't. In this post I will give you some...
  • Blog Post: InfoPath 2010 Paging (without coding)

    Introduction In this post I will try to show you how to implement a simple paging mechanism using InfoPath 2010. This approach is useful if you are considering a quick & fast solution to handle InfoPath Repeating Tables (or sections) that returns 100s of items without writing code behind and by...
  • Blog Post: Upgrading from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint 2010 Part 3

    In previous posts we have covered the upgrade part for SharePoint portal server 2003 to SharePoint 2007 now we need to be clear about how we can upgrade to 2010 by listing some considerations before we start the process. The only supported platform you can upgrade to SharePoint 2010 is SharePoint 2007 ...
  • Blog Post: Renaming SharePoint 2010 Search Service Database Name

    In this post I’m planning to walkthrough the practice of changing the SharePoint 2010 Search Service Database names as you might need it in the following scenarios: Replacing the Search Service Application Databases Names that Includes GUID’s to a friendlier name. The Database Admin...
  • Blog Post: Adding a Publishing Image Field to a SharePoint 2010 Calendar List

    As I was working on customizing a SharePoint Calendar, someone asked me if it’s possible to add a Publishing Image Field to a SharePoint Calendar called “Event Image” to display the current event picture. I decided to write this post to explore the options that I have in this case....
  • Blog Post: Divisional Portal (Single vs. Multiple Site Collections)

    What is Divisional Portal? A divisional portal is a SharePoint Server 2010 deployment where teams mainly do collaborative activities and some content publishing; for example it can be used for hosting an Intranet Portal with multiple Departments. In general we usual face the choice between using sites...
  • Blog Post: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {OFFICE14-0005-0000-0000-000000000000} failed due to the following error 8007042d

    When browsing the settings for the Search Service Application in SharePoint 2010, I received the error “Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {OFFICE14-0005-0000-0000-000000000000} failed due to the following error 8007042d”. I checked the SharePoint Server Search Service “SharePoint...
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