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New Download: Visio Stencils for Design Architecture Posters

Posted over 4 years ago

by Brenda Carter [MSFT]
- 8 Comments
By popular request, we have packed up and created a download for the stencils that we used to create many of the SharePoint Technical Diagrams . These models are created using Office Visio 2007. You can modify the Visio files to illustrate how you plan...
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Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Products from other versions or products

Posted over 3 years ago

by Samantha Robertson
- 8 Comments
Not every upgrade is a straightforward upgrade from one version of a product to the next. In order to help, we've got new TechNet library articles about how to perform an upgrade when you need to: Skip a version: Upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server...
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Stage 1: Create site collections for cross-site publishing

Posted 3 months ago

by Bella_Engen
- 8 Comments
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based...
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Stage 8: Assign a category page and a catalog item page to a term

Posted 2 months ago

by Bella_Engen
- 8 Comments
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search features to set up a website based...
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Using an LDIF file to import profiles from an LDAP provider

Posted over 3 years ago

by Claudia Lake - SharePoint UA
- 7 Comments
SharePoint Server 2010 currently supports the following LDAP providers for importing user and group profile information into the SharePoint profile store: SunOne 5.2 Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 IBM Tivoli 5.2 But what if you need to import...
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Big farm deployment? No problem

Posted over 5 years ago

by SharePoint Blog Admin
- 7 Comments
If you’re faced with doing a large SharePoint deployment, you’re probably feeling dizzy and lightheaded at the prospect of prepping, installing, and configuring SharePoint on 40 … 50 … or even more individual servers. It’s a big, complex, and repetitive...
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Enabling Kerberos authentication for an Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm deployment

Posted over 5 years ago

by Douglas Goodwin
- 7 Comments
To enable Kerberos authentication for services in Office SharePoint Server 2007 , you must create and register Service Principal Names (SPNs) in Active Directory. To create SPNs in an Active Directory domain, you must have domain administrative-level...
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Blogging with the Twynham School IT Team and Shane Young

Posted over 5 years ago

by Brenda Carter [MSFT]
- 6 Comments
By Brenda Carter, IT Pro Technical Writer, SharePoint Products and Technologies Last March, Shane Young and I sat down with Dave Coleman at the SharePoint conference in Seattle to review the solution design for Twynham School in the UK. Shane Young...
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Web content deployment walkthrough and TechNet topics

Posted over 5 years ago

by Cern McAtee
- 6 Comments
Hi, I'm Cern McAtee, a technical writer for Office SharePoint Server 2007. I'm pleased to announce that the Office SharePoint Server 2007 content team and the Global Readiness team have combined efforts to write and publish a new walkthrough guide for...
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Best Practices--good, better, best?

Posted over 5 years ago

by Margo Crandall Microsoft
- 6 Comments
Hi there—we’re wondering if you've got feedback on the Best Practices Resources Center that we blogged about a couple of weeks ago . Which is your favorite article? · Operational Excellence · Team Collaboration Sites · Publishing Portals ...
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Administrator’s Guide of Topics to Consider before Deployment

Posted over 4 years ago

by Brenda Carter [MSFT]
- 6 Comments
Greetings, SharePoint fans, and happy 2009! This week, we added a new white paper to our TechNet collection: Administrator's Guide of Topics to Consider before Deployment ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=139163&clcid=0x409 ). This paper...
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An overview of site permissions

Posted over 3 years ago

by Monicax
- 6 Comments
Hi, I'm Monica Xie, a technical writer who specializes in site permissions for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products. Permission plays an important role in managing security at almost every level of SharePoint hierarchy, from a server farm to a list item...
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Export your own TechNet book

Posted over 2 years ago

by Hannah L. _
- 6 Comments
You can now build your own book of TechNet articles! For several product versions, the SharePoint IT Pro content team has published collections of TechNet articles as downloadable books that you can read offline and print. We've been able to cover only...
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Upgrade: Frequent questions from SharePoint Conference 2012

Posted 6 months ago

by Samantha Robertson
- 6 Comments
It was great talking with so many of you at the SharePoint Conference last week. From one on one discussions to the big crush at Ask the Experts, we had several questions come up multiple times. Here are the most frequent questions from the conference...
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SharePoint Server 2013 Test Lab Guide stack refreshed

Posted 6 months ago

by Joe Davies
- 6 Comments
The SharePoint Server 2013 Test Lab Guide (TLG) stack has been refreshed for the released version of SharePoint Server 2013. Here is the current stack diagram (click on it for a larger version): The updates include the following: Additional...