Microsoft Forefront solutions help provide a security enhanced messaging and collaboration infrastructure by providing a family of integrated security and identity products that helps protect information and control access. Just read the post - Webcasts on secure collaboration & messaging post...

A new TechNet article - Best practices for search in SharePoint Server 2010 describes best practices for configuring and maintaining search in SharePoint Server 2010. Personally, practice #4 was new to me 4. Defragment the search database - The search database contains metadata and ACLs of crawled...

MSDN and TechNet libraries have a "low bandwidth view" feature for low bandwidth users. In case you are not aware of it, try it out now. It comes very handy when browsing the MSDN/TechNet library using a data card or any other form of slow Internet connection. Switching it ON Method #1 Click...

Sharing some information which would be useful for anyone interested in developing Internet websites on SharePoint 2007. Tune in and learn how you can use Microsoft SharePoint for Internet Business to help you build your public-facing portal. In this series, you will learn from experienced partners...

Private cloud computing built on virtualization technology provides ways to reduce the capital cost by allowing you to utilize more of your existing resources. Using Windows Server 2008 R2 , Hyper-V , System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 and System Center Self-Service Portal 2.0 , you can convert...

As you might know, SharePoint's Web browser support is divided into two levels: level 1 and level 2. Level 1 Web browsers take advantage of advanced features provided by ActiveX controls and provide the most complete user experience. Level 1 browsers offer full functionality on all SharePoint sites...

Sharing a useful white paper published a month back.. Information Worker Competence Center - Achieving Business Success with your Collaboration Infrastructure - Competence Centers are the standard approach to managing shared business infrastructures such as Enterprise Resource Management and Business...

A new white paper - " Scale Test Report for Very Large-Scale Document Repositories " is available on the Microsoft Download Center . This white paper provides details about a test lab that was run at Microsoft to show large scale SharePoint Server 2010 content databases. It includes information about...

If you use lot of evaluation/trial Microsoft software and had difficulty in locating the link to evaluation software, you can bookmark this link: TechNet Evaluation Center . TechNet Evaluation Center has downloadable beta and trial software under following categories: Windows Operating Systems...

In this post, I am sharing links to some TechNet documentation which have helped me a lot in the troubleshooting process. They are worth adding to web browser favorites and to the Resources list in SharePoint Central Administration website. Events and error reference (Office SharePoint Server) ...

Pav Cherny has published another interesting article – “ Inside SharePoint: Improving SharePoint Performance ” in the August 2009 issue of TechNet Magazine . In it Pav presents an overview of key SharePoint architecture components, describes how they can lead to common performance issues, and discusses...