There is lot of information on various Microsoft websites and the Internet on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Technologies. This resource guide is an attempt to build a reference directory of useful links on SharePoint. This post gets updated every 2 months...

SharePoint Server 2010 delivers a broad set of content management capabilities for organizations to manage content. One of the new capabilities is the "Document Set" feature. (To know more on what's new for document management read the Introducing Document...

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Part 3: Migration Process Any Lotus Notes application has 3 parts to it: User Interfaces Pages or Forms – Lotus Notes Forms , Pages , Navigators , etc.. Application Logic – Lotus Notes Scripts/Formulas...

Content retrieval is done very differently in FAST then in SharePoint 2007. FAST ESP may retrieve content from the data sources using two broad approaches: 1) Content Pull : this approach leverages content connectors to retrieve the information via...

This blog post is about an issue I faced during data import into SharePoint document libraries. I hope it helps others facing the same issue. Scenario Documents had to be migrated to SharePoint 2007 document libraries from an existing application...

Like ASP.NET Web Parts you can also use ASP.NET Controls in SharePoint 2007. I have put together a comparison between them in context of their use in SharePoint: Similarities Custom Properties are supported Can exist inside as well as outside...

For some time, I have been working on pre-sales engagements for FAST search based solutions. I get lot of queries from SharePoint developers/architects - what is "FAST" and how it works with SharePoint etc. I am sharing some information below. The links...

What is jQuery? jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development ( wikipedia article ). It was created by John Resig and dual licensed...

Securing SharePoint and related infrastructure becomes very important for External/Internet websites running on SharePoint 2007 and available to anonymous users. Detailed security guidance for such a scenario is available in the Technet article - Plan...

External Blob Storage (EBS) is a much blogged about and discussed feature of SharePoint 2007. It has been available for over 2 years now, first as a hotfix and then as part of the Service Pack 1 release but based on my experience its one of least understood...

This is the first post from a planned series on the FAST ESP platform to increase product awareness in the SharePoint community. This post builds on the basic FAST information I shared in my blog post – “ FAST and SharePoint 2007 ” last month. Target...

As I mentioned in my earlier post - Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products , FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is the new search SKU in SharePoint 2010 product family. (download this technical diagram to see a comparison of search capabilities...

Expanding on the brief information in Information on FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint , this post is on what the components of FAST search system are and what function they perform. This should help you understand the FAST search system better....

Apart from the SDK documentation, Technical article, How-To and Video formats, Microsoft is also providing learning content in " Quick Note " format for SharePoint 2010 . Quick Notes are 2-4 page tasks in a single scenario. Combined, they provide an...

Microsoft Office Web Apps are online companions to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, enabling people to access and do light editing or sharing of Office documents from virtually anywhere. I had given an overview in my previous post - Office...

By using PowerPoint 2010, you can share and reuse individual slide content by storing those slides in a "Slide Library" on a SharePoint 2010 server. A simple but powerful feature; specially for those who work a lot on presentations. The combination...

SharePoint Online delivers SharePoint as a cloud service. It helps businesses create sites to share documents and insights and enable collaboration between colleagues, partners, and customers. People can also customize these capabilities to address specific...

FAST ESP is built on a distributed system architecture that enables any type of information to be accessed through core search and filter engines. Incoming content is fed through a number of processors that automatically extract information, generate...

FAST ESP is a feature rich search platform; no doubt about that. To give my readers, especially SharePoint 2007 developers/architects, an idea of what it provides, given below are some of FAST ESP features in an alphabetical order: Capability...

FAST ESP performs linguistic processing: at the document level – during document processing, and at the query level – during query and result processing This helps it provide more relevant search results to users. On the query side, linguistic...

Relevancy is the measure of how well a set of documents (results) answers or addresses the intent of a given query. When there are many query matches, the search engines must rank the results by relevance score, sorting the results listing so that...

As I menioned in my previous post - JQuery and SharePoint 2007 , SharePoint community is publishing lot of content on using jQuery. So, learn from them and start using it today. I would go further and say that its difficult to come up with a convincing...

Why is IPv6 so important? In case you were wondering why IPv6 and supporting it in your environment is important, read the Royal Pingdom blog post - A crisis in the making: Only 4% of the Internet supports IPv6 "... IPv6 adoption is going so slow...

As Steve Bell wrote (ref: Microsoft SharePoint on the iPhone ) in SharePoint Magazine , SharePoint sites can be browsed in full fidelity on an iPhone. You just need to be in landscape mode in the web browser. " ... I would not have understood how compelling...

Some weeks back, Microsoft released a white paper - “ The Way to Gov 2.0: An Enterprise Approach to Web 2.0 in Government ” to help Government agencies understand the special considerations governments face when implementing Web 2.0 and help create solutions...