MarC on July 27th, 2010

Only until now I realize that there is a dependency between the user information list and crawling the site. After a full crawl the user information list is updated with information in the User Profiles.
In a customer farm there are some accounts in the Imported User Profiles list where the display name is in the [...]

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MarC on July 26th, 2010

I have set up a SharePoint 2010 farm. Some databases have been configured by using PowerShell scripts. Therefore they have friendly names like SP2010_Config. I do not have made scripts for every configuration step yet so some database names are like this \WebAnalyticsServiceApplication_ReportingDB_2d5a77a9-8360-41cf-9294-14587f977d1d.
I would like to have nice looking names in my SQL server so I [...]

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MarC on July 23rd, 2010

This week the first cumulative update (CU) for SharePoint 2010 has been released. It is called June 2010 CU. It is not a single package but 6 installation files.
Downloads here:
KB2028568
KB983319
KB983497
KB2182938 (Only Japanese)
KB2281364
KB2124512
Read more at the source.

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MarC on July 19th, 2010

Last week Microsoft shared their “official” roadmap for updating the company’s hosted Business Productivity Online (BPOS) suite.
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Microsoft didn’t provide specific dates as to when they’d deliver the updates to each of its managed services, but did say the updates would happen in fiscal 2011 (which runs from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011).
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The on-premise [...]

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The Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog has announced the availability of the first version of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit.
It will consist of the following tools:

User Profile Replication Engine 2010
The Security Configuration (SCW) Manifest
The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Connector
The Load Testing Kit (LTK)

For documentation and detailed tools information go to this article.

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MarC on July 15th, 2010

Here some useful links to start with Nintex Workflow 2010:
Download the .msi installation file:
http://www.nintex.com/en-US/Products/Pages/DownloadRequestComplete.aspx?l=English&v=NWF.2010&d=true
Request a trial license key (valid for one month):
http://www.nintex.com/en-US/Products/Pages/TrialDownload.aspx?v=NWF.2010 (fill in the form, and you’ll get an email with key)
Download the installation guide:
http://nintexdownload.com/Nsupport/NW2010_Installation_Guide_English.pdf

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MarC on July 14th, 2010

Be sure to configure a State Service connection for the Web Application in SharePoint 2010 were you will be using Infopath browser based forms. To establish this continue with the next steps:

Choose Application Management in SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and then “Configure service application associations”;
Click on the web application of your choice. You will see a box like [...]

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MarC on July 13th, 2010

Cumulative Update June 2010 for SharePoint 2007 is available. It is build 12.0.6539.5000 and you can get it here. Request the hotfix immediately here.

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MarC on July 12th, 2010

Just installed Nintex workflow 2010 and made some screenshots. Installation went almost smoothly with one flaw (or I was just impatient). See below.
First installation of the msi file through elevated command prompt:

Then the Nintex Workflow installer starts to guide you through the process. I will not show all screens here. Most of them are default [...]

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MarC on July 9th, 2010

Today a client indicated to me that in the c:\users directory on the SharePoint server a lot of directories where created, every day again. Eventually I came to setting permissions to the User Profile Service Application in the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration. Let me explain what has happened and what the solution is:
First I saw [...]

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