The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: SharePoint

  • SharePoint Server 2010 SDK Update Released

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    Looking for some SharePoint 2010 goodness and looking to dive deep into the software development kit? Look no further than the newly released SharePoint 2010 SDK available at – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26f Enjoy!

  • Brush up on your SharePoint 2010 Skills…

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    So you find yourself in the conundrum of needing to brush up on your hands on skills with either SharePoint 2010? You’ve got a laptop that doesn’t have 8 GB of memory to host that all inclusive VM you downloaded from Microsoft?  You’re not running Vista SP2 x64 / 7 x64 / 2008 x64 as…

  • Loading the SharePoint 2010 Management PowerShell

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    So someone asked me today, “What if I don’t want to use the SharePoint 2010 Management PowerShell”? I looked blankly at them and thought to myself, “Well that’s just silly…” and then decided to look into the matter 🙂 So it’s pretty easy to add the SharePoint snapin for PowerShell. You can do this manually,…

  • Database Spotlight: Application Registry Service DB

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    Unlike other databases that SharePoint 2010 creates, the Application Registry Service Database is actually included in the mix for backward compatibility of SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog connection information and other information pertinent to the BDC API. By default, the database name is “Application_Registry_Service_DB_<GUID>”.  I’m not quite certain why, but I’m not so much…

  • SharePoint 2010 Database Names

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    While SharePoint Server 2010 has several enhancements for Administrators including such capabilities of an offline database restoring a list item or document, there are still some curiosities that I’ve got as to the planning of the underlying system. For instance, it would seem that for such a refined product with so many enhancements that items…

  • SharePoint 2010 – Drive Space Conundrum

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    One of the new capabilities of SharePoint 2010 that comes in handy is the Health Monitoring alerts that pop up on the front page of Central Admin. One thing you might run into is when you start to run out of disk space.  You’ll probably see something similar to this: Always something that you want…

  • TaxonomyPicker.ascx bug (SP2010 RTM)

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    Please note the update! So apparently others have stumbled upon this but when doing my rebuild of RTM over the weekend I noticed a nifty little error popping up in the event log that raised a little concern with regard to the TaxonomyPicker user control. Looking at the error, you’ll notice that it states the…

  • SharePint Northern Virginia Edition

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    Come one, come all! SharePint!!! So not to interfere with any SharePoint events this week, but I figured that with so many folks in town this week, why not have a few social events? Who’s in town you ask? Well, MindSharp is in town for a training event and with good ole MindSharp comes Todd…

  • ShareSquared in the Spotlight – Business Intelligence using SP2010 & PowerPivot

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    Interested in some of the new business intelligence capabilities within SharePoint Server 2010? Didn’t make it to the SharePoint Conference out in Vegas? Wondering what this thing called PowerPivot? Check out the ShareSquared Webinar showcasing Business Intelligence using the SharePoint 2010 platform and PowerPivot. Paul Stork and Chris Givens will be presenting the session. When:…

  • SharePoint Server 2007 – December 2009 CU

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    Microsoft has released the SharePoint 2007 December 2009 Cumulative Update as of 29 January 2010. The cumulative update like all other updates includes all hotfixes since the most recent Service Pack, in this case SP2. Information pertaining to this cumulative update is available at from the Update Resource Center at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx The WSS v3 December…