Category Archives: Tips

Cumulative updates packaging changed for SharePoint 2010

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Dirk

while browsing the updates page on Technet I found: The packaging of cumulative updates changed as of August 31, 2011. The following packages are provided for cumulative updates: • SharePoint Foundation 2010 • SharePoint Foundation 2010 + SharePoint Server 2010 … Continue reading →

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Remove HTTP Response Headers for internet facing SharePoint sites

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Dirk

if you are serious about to publish an internet facing SharePoint site you have to consider security. One of the first things a possible hacker will inspect are the HTTP Response Headers. I usually use the Firefox Developper toolbar to … Continue reading →

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Where is the RSS Viewer web part in SP 2010?

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dirk

Like everything in SharePoint why make things simple if you can make it hard Turns out that if you want the RSS Viewer webpart, you need to activate the “SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection features” feature in your site collection … Continue reading →

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Rename SharePoint 2010 Central Admin database

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Dirk

I had a post on this for SharePoint 2007 and needed to do the same thing for SharePoint 2010, but wanted to do this the powershell way instead of the stsadm way I used for MOSS. Not sure if that … 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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interesting new blog –> Pascal Benois

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Dirk

for those of us that are always interesting in SharePoint blogs from Microsoft engineers with a lot of experience in the field, I am glad to be able to tell you that Pascal Benois, a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft … 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 PowerShell Cheat Sheet by Dmitry Sotnikov

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Dirk

Dmitry recently posted an interesting 3 page reference card describing how to get started with PowerShell for SharePoint. Not having taken the blue pill yet, I reealy need to get this information drilled down very soon. Go find the document … Continue reading →

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