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Preparing to upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Products

Posted over 4 years ago

by Samantha Robertson
- 1 Comments
The public beta releases of SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 are coming soon. Aside from the anticipation of wanting to see all of the new features and functionality, some of you with existing Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows...
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Trying to decide which BI tool is best?

Posted over 2 years ago

by Joanne Hendrickson
- 0 Comments
Trying to decide on which Business Intelligence application is best for your business? With all the choices available, do you know what style of BI is right for you? The white paper " How to Choose the Right Business Intelligence Technology to Suit Your...
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Content posters for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 !

Posted over 4 years ago

by warrenbi
- 3 Comments
The product team published an excellent Blog post, SharePoint 2010 , which gives a comprehensive description of enhancements and features for the release of SharePoint Server 2010. Other "what's new" posts are covered on www.microsoft.com\sharepoint...
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SharePoint 2010 Databases and Windows PowerShell

Posted over 1 year ago

by Steve Hord
- 0 Comments
There are several ways to maintain and configure, and backup and restore SharePoint 2010 databases. The obvious way is with SharePoint Central Administration, however, the easiest and perhaps best way is to use Windows PowerShell cmdlets. There are many...
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SharePoint 2010 Products, SQL Server, Storage and Databases (oh my)

Posted over 3 years ago

by Margo Crandall Microsoft
- 3 Comments
The SharePoint 2010 Products are, at core, Web applications built on SQL Server databases. To best administer an environment and keep it performing well, administrators should understand the following: How to choose the best version of SQL Server...
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Using Federated Search in Geographic Environments

Posted over 5 years ago

by Brenda Carter [MSFT]
- 8 Comments
Greetings, my name is Brenda Carter, I am a technical writer who writes content for the IT Pro audience about Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The purpose of this blog entry is to tell you about the new federated search...
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Get the new Office Visio stencil with the cool icons

Posted 4 months ago

by Samantha Robertson
- 2 Comments
Community members have noticed the cool new icons that have been appearing in our content. Here is an example: This new icon set is the result of a huge joint effort by people in the Lync Server, Exchange Server, SharePoint, and Office groups here at...
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*New* SharePoint 2010 content deployment poster

Posted over 3 years ago

by supotter
- 1 Comments
Check out our new content deployment poster, created by Cern McAtee: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=de010583-e5fe-4c4b-a633-e57312336aef&displaylang=en Cern is a writer on the SharePoint Content Publishing Team,...
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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...
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Managing crawl deletion policies for SharePoint Server 2010

Posted over 2 years ago

by Hal - MSFT
- 3 Comments
Hello! Hal Zucati here, a writer with Enterprise Search User Assistance. I want to share some information about how to manage crawl deletion policies in SharePoint Server 2010. SharePoint Server 2010 uses four policies that control accidental deletion...
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Deploy SharePoint Server 2010 to a test environment

Posted over 3 years ago

by Andrea Bichsel - MSFT
- 0 Comments
Earlier this week, I paved my test machine and followed the excellent instructions in Deploy Project Server 2010 to a test environment to install my new SharePoint Server 2010 test environment. While this series of articles is intended for a Project Server...
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What happened to Best Bets? Introducing Query Rules

Posted 9 months ago

by Pedro DeRose [MSFT]
- 1 Comments
Audience: Search Admin/ITPro Pre-requisite: This blog assumes the reader has basic SharePoint 2010 Search Administration knowledge. If you’ve ever managed Search on SharePoint 2010 Products, chances are you’ve created Search Keywords and...
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SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search IT Professional Training

Posted over 3 years ago

by Nina Ruchirat
- 0 Comments
This has been a big month for Enterprise Search content! The following comprehensive, advanced training series is now available on TechNet, covering both SharePoint Server 2010 and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. The online, self-paced training...
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Security and authentication resource centers for SharePoint 2010 Products

Posted over 3 years ago

by SharePoint Blog Admin
- 2 Comments
SharePoint 2010 Products are logically divided into three distributed tiers: the front-end Web server tier, the application server tier, and the back-end database tier. Administrators and IT pros are empowered to control and manage access to the resources...
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Profile Synchronization in SharePoint Server 2010 Beta 2

Posted over 4 years ago

by Claudia Lake - SharePoint UA
- 5 Comments
In SharePoint Server 2010, you can use Profile Synchronization to synchronize user and group profile information that is stored in the SharePoint Server 2010 profile store with profile information that is stored in directory services across the enterprise...