The User Profile Service Application is used to synchronise data from Active Directory to the profile database maintained by SharePoint. The profile database contains rich information about end users that can be displayed in sites. The User Profile service application maps Active Directory fields to fields in the user ’s profile. On a scheduled basis, this information is [...]
As I’ve been getting to grips with SharePoint Server 2010 I’m really starting to appreciate how modular and how WAN friendly the product is. Our organisation is a large multinational with major regional sites around the world, unfortunately not every regional site has SharePoint Administrators available for their disposal. With that in mind we wanted [...]
We’ve been working with Microsoft SharePoint Server (MSS) 2010 for a little while now and trying to plan our strategy going forward. One feature we’re interested in is utilising People Search as a corporate global address-book. One compelling reason for a multinational company like ours is to use the new phonetic search. An example a [...]
I’m in the process of finalising my unattended install script for SharePoint Server 2010 and during some of my initial playing around I came across this vague error; The Local Farm Is Not Accessible. Cmdlets With FeatureDependencyId Are Not Registered Being early in the morning and all, I was kind of spooked as the error [...]
Hi All, Just wanted to say there was a slight quality control issue with the release of the 2.0 version. When you Zoom In and Out the page numbers will jump when viewing PDF files. How this escaped this eagle eye is beyond me, but there is a 2.1 release sitting in the App Store [...]
Top 5 reasons to upgrade! 1. Performance Reliability/Stability Fixes 2. Browser support for IE 8 and improvements in tier 2 browsers (Firefox) 3. Reliability improvements in Indexing and Index Corpus 4. Security Improvements 5. New STSADM Commands including some to fix corruption and relationships (orphaning) BONUS! Pre Upgrade Checker! – 960577 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960577/ ) List of [...]
This has been bugging me for a while now. I have not been able to find a definitive guide to all the build numbers of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 2.0/3.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 since they RTM’ed. So for your viewing pleasure here is a very very long [...]
It seems like there have been some calls coming in regarding this particular issue. Funny how some problems seem to go around in waves. Just had a customer Severity A come though where this patch was rolled out automatically via Windows Update, now when the server rebooted MSSQL$SHAREPOINT fails to start. Ooops! Delving further into [...]
So here I am sipping away at my new found love of Jasmine Green Tea when the Queue Manager pops on Office Communicator. Kris, we have a Severity A. That usually means system down and someone is filling their pants with brown stuff. Turns out it was a certain customer in Greece with a failed [...]
I was recently working on an interesting issue where Search Centre, Center for our American cousins, was not returning any results. Picked up the case and thought, yeah it’s going to be a breeze. The guy was accessing the site from one particular URL and the content source the gatherer was crawling was pointing to [...]