Category Archives: SharePoint 2010

Updating User Profile pictures with powershell on SP2010

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Dirk

I finally had the chance to play around with user profiles. My customer asked me if it was possible to have the pictures of all employees show up in their respective user profiles in SharePoint and this without uploading the … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 gradual upgrade approach using ISA server

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Dirk

Now first a little remark about this post: This post will not handle the actual upgrade from MOSS 2007 to SP2010. It will only provide a possible method to use when you are considering to gradually upgrade specific web applications, … Continue reading →

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New SharePoint Documents – July 2010

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Dirk

Upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Brief Description: Perform an upgrade from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to SharePoint Server 2010. Overview: This book is designed to guide administrators and IT professionals through the process of upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint … Continue reading →

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v1.0 released

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Dirk

Found this toolkit while scanvenging the new downloads on th MS Download site. Beware of the final line on the download page:  This tool is not supported for SharePoint Foundation 2010. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v1.0 Brief Description: The … Continue reading →

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Some more newly published SP2010 material on Microsoft Downloads

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Dirk

Some more interesting downloads I happened to stumble upon while reviewing the latest downloads on the Microsoft Downloads site   Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 Brief Description: This guidance provides technical information about key areas of SharePoint 2010 application development. … Continue reading →

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Newly published SharePoint 2010 documents

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dirk

Newly published SharePoint 2010 documents. I came across these through some of the tweets that I am following. Thanks to Andreas Glaser for tweeting about these documents   Technical reference for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Brief Description: Technical information about … Continue reading →

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Document your SP2010 Farm configuration

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Dirk

I was passed a link today by Thomas Vochten, that leads to a Technet Article containing a pretty neat Powershell script for documenting a SharePoint 2010 farm configuration. The script will output several XML files containing specifi farm configuration settings. … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 Knowledgde articles

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Dirk

So you took the step of installing your first SharePoint 2010 server or farm. You install the server, but not everything goes smoothly or doesn’t work as expected. What’s next? Well, a good place to start is to use the … Continue reading →

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SP2010 Create site without template

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Dirk

I often let my users decide which site template they want to use for their new site collection. In SharePoint 2007 i did this by creating a site collection using stsadm without specifying a site template. this caused the first user … Continue reading →

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SharePoint 2010 Multi Tenancy

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Dirk

SharePoint 2010 allows you to host multiple tenants or customers in a Hosting Mode. This is exremely interesting if you are thinking of your SharePoint environment as an infrastructure hosting platform for all your customers. Customers being either external customers … Continue reading →

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