Hi all- Thanks to all that attended our session at the SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, CA. For all of you that missed it or want a quick reference to our deck - Here it is: Session Title: 36 Terabytes : How Microsoft IT Manages SharePoint...

Hi all- Just wanted to give you a quick update that SharePoint 2010 SP1 Released to the public to download. My group in MSIT have been testing SP1 for the last several months internally and are excited for customers to check out the new features. ...

Here is a nice quick script that you can run on any SharePoint site to determine the version of SharePoint the farm is running. Thanks to the $cript Fanatic Blog - Shay that helped me construct the query ( http://scriptolog.blogspot.com/2007/08/query...

Hi all- I just finished speaking Keynote and Lunch QnA at Chicago's Best of SharePoint 2010 Conference. It was a great conference with a lot of good customer representation and great speakers. Thanks to all who attended and helped in setting up the...

Hi all- If you are planning to upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 - you might want to consider your users that have list view lookups of over 5000 items and/or data column lookups of over 8 lookup columns. In SharePoint 2007, it was recommended...

Hi all- I wanted to share the steps on setting up a Fast or SharePoint Search Crawl Target in SP2010. The reason for a crawl target is to limit the user impact of the Search Crawl on your Production farm. Crawling will hammer your Front End servers...

Hi all- In my spare time - I worked with my co-worker friend Jim Adams to develop a WP7 App called Orloj. Jim was inspired from his recent trip to Prague - seeing the clock in person. I was interested in learning more on WP7 development and intrigued...

Hi all- I published two IT Showcase talks with Sam Crewdson (MSIT SharePoint Manager) recorded in December 2010 on Managing a Parallel Upgrade and Initial Best Practices & Lessons Learned from Microsoft IT's SharePoint 2010 Upgrade http://technet...

Here is a quick script for SharePoint 2007 to get all your site collections and their assoicated databases. In SharePoint 2010 - the code is much simplier due to the Powershell Cmdlets but here is the long way. It saves your results to a file on your...

This is a fun little Easter egg to show you which web parts you have located on your page and easily remove them. All you need to do is add this string to the end of your URL "?contents=1" on any of your SharePoint Pages for example: http://mysharepoint...

In Microsoft IT we encountered an issue with patching our child farm that was federated to a UPA farm that was the RTM build (without the June CU). UPA service failed until we patched the UPA Federated farm to the June CU. Here is a Matrix of what...

Getting a high load on your farm and you decide to add a new Web Front End to the mix. Oh no! You forgot that SharePoint Passphrase to allow you to connect to your farm. Before you start freaking out, check out this powershell command Get-Help Set...

There is a list of blocked file types by default in SharePoint 2010. ade adp app asa ashx asmx asp bas bat cdx cer chm class cmd cnt com config cpl crt csh der dll exe fxp gadget grp hlp hpj hta htr htw ida idc idq ins isp its jse ksh lnk mad maf mag...

Hi all- The SharePoint 2010 June 2010 CU was released for Foundation & Server Products. Download the hotfix and apply it to your farm here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028568 - WSS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983497 - MOSS http...

If you have run into this problem like me, you probably get an error similar to the one below: Text: The list cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: - A datasheet component compatible with Microsoft...

If you see Access Denied errors after Upgrading your ContentDBs from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 the issue might be related to the superuser is not configured for your service account. The Service account needs full control to your Web Application or...

It is nice for demos and testing out quick features to install SharePoint platform on your desktop. Here are some sites I found helpful on getting the SharePoint platform installed on my desktop / laptop machine. Installing SharePoint Server 2010 on...

Here are the scripts replacing some of the legacy STSADM commands (borrowed content from Patrick's SharePoint Blog): Add-SPSolution “D:\Deploy\MySharePointSolution.wsp“ Install-SPSolution –Identity MySharePointSolution.wsp –WebApplication...

SharePoint doesn't have a cmdlet for this feature yet. I created a bug for the developers to create this PowerShell feature in SharePoint 2010 SP1. Here is the code you can use for now that uses the SharePoint Object Model: $loadasm = [System.Reflection...

Hi all- Here is a link to the Presentation my group put on in New Orleans at the Tech Ed 2010 Event: http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica/OSP321 Let me know if you have any feedback, comments, or questions. Here is a cool tool I am eager...

Here is the public code I demoed during TechEd 2010: How Microsoft IT upgraded SharePoint 2010 for Microsoft with Scott Kleven and Mark Harmsworth. Thanks for all who attended, that was a fun presentation. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/VisualScreenshots...

Hi all- My name is Nate Bruneau, I am a Service Engineer for Microsoft IT. I wanted to share my experiences deploying SharePoint 2010 in an automated fashion - to both help the SharePoint Community and share some of our Microsoft IT Best Practices...