The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: SharePoint

  • Automation of Password Updates…

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    Recently I stumbled upon a SharePoint 2010 environment setup a long time ago where the managed accounts and accounts in general were setup a little funny… in particular the issue was that the profile service stopped syncing. I asked the administrator what the issue was and they stated that they’d setup the system to use…

  • Recycle Bin Misperceptions

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    I have to say that it boggles my mind on a regular basis when I start talking to end users during a session or when interviewing users in client engagements to find out that they don’t quite understand how the end user and site collection administrator recycle bins work. Most of the time I find…

  • SharePoint Users Group of New York

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    This past week, Scott Hoag and I had the privilege of presenting a session to the New York SharePoint User’s Group, hosted by Microsoft at their offices there in New York City on the Avenue of the Americas. There were a few familiar faces in the crowd such as Paul Galvin, Mary Leigh Mackie, Randi…

  • SharePoint Saturday Boston #5

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    It’s been a fun time up here in Boston seeing some great folks like Talbott, Pradeepa and Geoff this weekend (and thanks to the entire SharePoint Saturday Boston team) after not being here since SPS Boston #1 back during St. Patrick’s Day Weekend of 2009. Thanks to Scott Hoag (@ciphertxt) for co-presenting as always –…

  • Capital Area .Net SharePoint Special Interest Group Presentation

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    This past Wednesday evening, Scott Hoag and I had the privilege of sharing the evening with the Capital Area .Net SharePoint Special Interest Group, hosted by Excella in the Navy League building in Arlington, VA. The crowd was lively and engaged and we even had Nick Inglis, Mack Sigman, Stacey Draper, David Berry and Cicely…

  • Recycle an Application Pool – #ITProTip

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    So you’ve deployed an updated solution to your SharePoint 2007 or 2010 farm and you need to recycle the application pool associated with the web application that the solution is deployed to but you don’t want to take down the entire SharePoint farm? No problem, just recycle the single application pool that’s associated with that…

  • Considerations for Sandboxed Solutions

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    With SharePoint 2010, there’s a new functionality that allows for developers to create solutions that are scoped at the site collection level with a limited portion of the SharePoint API. Better yet they can deploy these solutions without bothering their IT Pro brethren. This is awesome! Course it bypasses some of the governance that you…

  • Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010 – Update

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    Back in June 2010, Microsoft released what was known as the Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010. It was a site collection that Microsoft provided that could be extended out for end users to visit to acquire knowledge on how to use SharePoint.  Great resource if you were short on training components and looking for assistance…

  • Federation Extensions for SharePoint 3.0

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    If you’re running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007 and not quite ready to migrate to SharePoint 2010 to leverage the Claims Authentication Provider, take heart, there’s still hope. Back in May 2010, Microsoft released several documents and extensions to assist with configuring the SharePoint v3 (or v12 depending on how you look…

  • December 2010 Cumulative Updates for SharePoint

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    This one goes out to my friend and SharePoint colleague, Mark Rackley, also known to many of you as @MRackley. Gotta help my Dev friends that wonder at times why the underlying infrastructure doesn’t work properly – hopefully these bits will help. Seem like you just got the good bits for the October 2010 Cumulative…