The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: SharePoint

  • Indexing follies…

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    I was reading through Itay Shakury’s blog this evening, specifically his article pertaining to “Copied folders are not indexed bug”.  Definitely an eye opening article pertaining to the fact that when a folder is copied to a new location, it is no longer indexed by the index server without dumping the index and starting a…

  • SPDiag v1 – First Impressions

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    So as a follow up to mentioning of the tool, my first impressions to the SPDiag tool are essentially – holy guacamole, this is awesome!  It’s nothing super flashy, though you can download the .net 3.5 Microsoft Charts plugin to provide for additionally graphical views of information.  It sports the plain jane simple minimalistic UI…

  • Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3 Available

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    For those of you that read the recent article pertaining to the SharePoint Diagnostics v1 tool for SharePoint 2007 and were slightly confused and left wondering where it was buried in the v2 release of the toolkit, Microsoft has answered the question. Downloads available at: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86 Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit…

  • SharePoint Saturday: NYC… maybe?

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    I’ve submitted to speak at SharePoint Saturday in NYC – we’ll see if they accept my submission on the topic of Requirements Driving Logical Architecture Design. What’s that? You don’t know about SharePoint Saturday? It’s a grassroots organization that’s planning SharePoint events across the country. Check out their homepage for resources and for an event…

  • Have you clustered your users yet?

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    Yes, you read the title correctly.  I’m not referring to clustering SQL servers, nor am I referring to your clustered ISA servers, or Microsoft Clustering Services.  Rather I’m talking about clustering your users to see what their permissions are and if they’re similar to the permissions of anyone else in your farm. What are you…

  • Contextual Considerations of Technical Planning

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    On 10 January 2009, I attended the SharePoint Saturday – Virginia Beach event with a friend of mine, looking to see SharePoint from a different angle and take in new perspectives and perhaps learn a thing or two while being refreshed by others in the "community".  It was great to meet Paul Galvin, Dan Lewis,…

  • Expiring Service Accounts…

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    Recently I read an article regarding service accounts and how they should never be set to expire.  Bold statement that in some respects I agree with.  In the context of the author, I completely understand their frustration with the identity management system not properly alerting the end user that their account was about to be…

  • First Thoughts… Wrox Books: Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

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    Way back in July of 2008, I saw “yet another book on SharePoint” publicized via Amazon and decided to add it to my ever growing collection and knowledge base of books on SharePoint and associated networking infrastructure technologies and development methods. Nonetheless, yesterday, 2 January 2009, a mere six months after putting in my pre-order,…

  • Charting it up… The story of my life…

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    If you’re a vigilant reader of XKCD.com, then you more than likely already saw this, but it cracks me up to no end… For those of you that like to graph everything, if you’re in the SharePoint or asp.net world, I’d recommend Dundas Chart.  If you’re into utilizing web based APIs, Google Charts is pretty…

  • Doom in SharePoint…

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    While browsing through good ole Google Reader (shhhh, I don’t use Outlook for RSS feed aggregation…) I came across an interesting post over on Paul Galvin’s blog pointing to the End User SharePoint “Stump the Panel” forum. Under the topic of “Doom Web Part” the fun begins 🙂 Now Playing: Charlie Haden – Land of…