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...

In this post, I am going to list the most used tools aligned with MS recommended practices for custom SharePoint development and administration. Please note that there are hundreds of tools available (from MS or 3 rd party) in the market and the tools listed below are either MS proprietary or MS open...

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...

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....

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...

So, I finish the deployment of a multi-server SharePoint farm, and I setup the Search Service Application; I was able to configure Search and browse the admin pages in central admin successfully. After trying to browse the search admin main page from central admin a couple of days later, I got the error...