• Private Cloud Architecture - Part 3: Concepts

    In the first part of this series ( here and here ), I started by some discussion regarding the basic definition that we will build upon toward achieving the Private Cloud Promises. In the second part ( here and here ) I discussed the Core Principles for...
  • SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service: Part 1a Configuration

    I wanted to write a series about how to get SharePoint 2010 user profiles service and synchronization scenario working. So this is the first post of this series and I will talk about the configuration alternatives of the user profiles service. The user...
  • Using a custom user profile property for people search results scopes

    The scenario is simple; what have configured people search and allowed that to search using a custom metadata property that is being populated into the user profiles from an external system like a BCS system. For this post I assume that the user profiles...
  • Configuring WCF connection timeout for BCS

    The scenario is that you have configured a BCS system connecting to a WCF service. Now this service is not connecting to a reliable system and you have a failover node for it. But since BCS by default will keep waiting for the service to respond you will...
  • SharePoint 2010 People Search using Metadata

    The scenario is simple; what you want is to configure people search and allow that to search using a custom metadata property that is being populated into the user profiles from an external system like a BCS system. I will dedicate several posts for configuring...