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re: SharePoint 2010: Backup and Restore Best Practices

Harshal — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:52:36 GMT

In Farm environment, if I use powershell to perform Farm backup, do I need to open 445 port between Web to DB or DB to Web? Is there any connectivity documentation available from Microsoft?

re: SharePoint 2010: Backup and Restore Best Practices

Sundar Ramakrishnan — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:55:48 GMT

Brett,

For site collections 15-100 GB in size, Microsoft recommends using SQL Server backups. If it's over 100 GB, you're going to want to consider a different backup tool, such as Microsoft's Data Protection Manager or one from a third party vendor (AvePoint, Quest, or Idera just to name a few). Hope this helps.

re: SharePoint 2010: Backup and Restore Best Practices

Brett — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:03:21 GMT

Great stuff. Can you tell me if I follow the Farm Backup and Configuration Database steps to backup the Farm config without the content databases, how long the Dismount and Mount processes will take? When mounting there will be no upgrade involved, but the content db is huge (400+ GB), and I want to make sure the time to mount is not astronomical. Thanks

re: SharePoint 2010: Backup and Restore Best Practices

Amit Khare - Project Management Consultant — Wed, 30 May 2012 12:18:21 GMT

Good Stuff.. Thanks for sharing ..

re: Search and Replace Retention tag on Microsoft Exchange 2010 (MRM)

Jim the Coding Insomniac — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:40:33 GMT

This is easily one of my top 2 blogs on EWS API, and Exchange Retention. If you have managers who are asking for you to start shifting retention policies around, you have come to the right place. Sundar will have you talking with managers and admins authoritatively on Exchange Retention in minutes with diagrams and the key values listed out for you. I was desperate for something more than 4 lines of code snippets that were in all of my books and Sundar delivered an enterprise solution. This is far and above pulling subject lines from inbox mails like most of the other blogs. Great job!

re: Search and Replace Retention tag on Microsoft Exchange 2010 (MRM)

Raju Ramasamy — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:47:30 GMT

Thank you for excellent article and it’s saved 4 day’s of project time line. I am not finding these kinds of examples in MSDN. This was very helpful.

re: Kerberos Authentication Problem with Active Directory

Rob Bowman — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:50:25 GMT

I noticed there is a value of D that Technet address's but this article does not. If I use the Technet formula (TokenSize = 1200 + 40d + 8s) from I get a huge value! Please clarify as we are experiencing ticket size issues.

re: SharePoint 2010 Configuration with PowerShell and Untrusted SQL domain (SQL Authentication)

Sundar Ramakrishnan — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:26:31 GMT

Sameer,

Web Analytics service with SQL authentication is not working in current SP2010 RTM version. You should be able to configure Search service though.

Thanks,

Sundar

re: SharePoint 2010 Configuration with PowerShell and Untrusted SQL domain (SQL Authentication)

Sundar Ramakrishnan — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:26:28 GMT

Sameer,

Web Analytics service with SQL authentication is not working in current SP2010 RTM version. You should be able to configure Search service though.

Thanks,

Sundar

re: SharePoint 2010 Configuration with PowerShell and Untrusted SQL domain (SQL Authentication)

Sameer Dhoot — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:54:56 GMT

Is there any guidance from MS on how to setup SharePoint 2010 including all service applications using SQL Authentication?

I am using standard edition and cannot figure out how to configure Search Service and Web Analytics service to use SQL Authentications, rest of service applications has provision to be configured using SQL authentication.

Sameer Dhoot | http://sharemypoint.in