Today, I’d like to post about a behavior in SharePoint that has a dramatically impact on performance! Consider this scenario: You go to the people picker to search for let’s say: “User42”. You wait for about more than 3.5...

From a recent case, we found a lack documented “Issue” you may run into while setting up and configuring a content type hub or trying to publish content types. Scenario: You have a site dedicated to be your Content type HUB (how to do that...

For those of you who sign-in to comment on my TechNet Blogs and posts, there is a change coming on January 27 th 1:00 pm (PST) regarding user accounts and profiles. Please click here to read about this change. If you have questions please leave a comment...

From a recent support incident, I stumbled over an interesting thing… Consider the following: Your User profile service application and the Profile import and Sync is working like a charm but for some reason, we get bulks of Event warnings in...

The new cumulative updates for SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint foundation 2010 are ready to download: MSF2010: KB 2459125 Full server package for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Download: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx...

Applies to:  MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007) and WSS (Windows SharePoint services v3) Note!    The packages might be smaller now as they only contain updates since SP2 which is now required prior to install the bits! WSS...

Recently I came across with a customer’s incident that is running a “custom workflow” that finally creates a List-Event (item update, asynchronous). Unfortunately we could not repro the issue but while troubleshooting and research, I...

Recently we have found a new issue with the “My Profile” page and there especially with the “AskMeAbout – Web part”. How found? You have installed a SharePoint 2010 (Build 5123 or higher) in english and additionally...

*** <Update 2010-11-18> *** The Server-Packages that fix the regression discovered in the October CU will be now available! **** Update: the regression is Fixed and packages are republished now **** ( http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages...

Hi all, at the right time as expected, the new October 2010 cumulative updates are now available! Please note, that the according KB articles might be not online yet but will coming soon too.   MOSS 2007/ WSSv3  October CU (Build 12.0.6548.5000...

As a follow up to my previous post on " User Profile Sync - SharePoint 2010 ", I'll wrap up with some very good links and other currently known issues we discovered with User profile sync stuff in SharePoint 2010. If you have not started to setup and...

We had an issue with Running Central Administration over SSL as already posted by Spencer. Good News! There is a fix in work and is in planning for the October CU! ( KB 2394320 ) What is the issue?: When you have changed your Central Administration...

Today I’ll notify you about an issue I recently discovered when you delete the user property SPS-Local (Office location) in SharePoint 2010 which breaks then the My Profile page! Action: You have User profile service application provisioned and...

  Affects Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS); Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSSv3); Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (MSF2010) On Tuesday, October 12, 2010, Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS10-072) will be released. It includes an...

Symptom You have a running User Profile synchronization Service, configured with an Active Directory connection and in addition a Business Data Catalog (BDC or also known as Business Connectivity Service - BCS). You have the User profiles from the...

After you have installed the hotfix package 2352342 or 2281364 in SharePoint Server 2010, the Event ID 3 Error is logged. We observed, that after applying the august CU the following error shows up in bulks in the event application log of the server...

Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. Check out episode #37, “Spelunking Windows Phone 7 Development” .  In this episode, “guest” Dmitry Lyalin joins Peter...

Peter Laudati & Dmitry Lyalin host the edu-taining Connected Show developer podcast on cloud computing and interoperability. Check out episode #35, “Cat Ladies & Acne-Laden Teenagers” .  In this episode, the duo cover the latest news around...

Taken From http://blogs.technet.com/b/mahesm/ SharePoint 2010 supports FBA, Like WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007. It's a feature of ASP .Net which we use with SharePoint. SharePoint 2010 you can create web applications using Classic Based Authentication or Claims...

As many times used in our daily business, we’re used to ask for “Build number” rather than “Service Pack or Patch level”. Because of some confusion of the customers and for transparency I’ll provide here a list of the...

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ARCast.TV - SharePoint Server 2010 Improved User Interface and Branding SharePoint Server 2010 allows customers to create customized, branding sites that fit their business needs. What should users, developers and administrators know about the improved...

  Security Advisory 2416728 (Vulnerability in ASP.NET) and SharePoint **< Updated 29/sept/2010 >** Out of Band Release to Address Microsoft Security Advisory 2416728 27 Sep 2010 7:13 PM rriley x-post from the Microsoft Security Response Center...

Since RTM Release, we had lot’s of cases regarding problems with “user profile synchronization service” in SharePoint 2010 RTM. There is already many stuff out there about it and some of them are very good, some others are not so good...

In-between we have published the “cumulative updates” for MOSS 2007 and as well for SharePoint 2010 (SPS2010). Before getting confused by the different abbreviations commonly used, please see the post “ Abbreviations for our SharePoint...