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Can you run the Configuration Wizard on multiple SharePoint 2010 farm hosts at once?

Simply put, no. Take for example, you install the bits for the service pack 1 upgrade. The first thing, of course, is that you need to finish installing those bits on all of the servers in your farm. But then … Continue reading

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A SharePoint Consultant’s list of scope-growing factors

As I’m preparing to start work on building a single-server SharePoint 2010 pilot rig for a client, I was listing things to check for before I would be willing to shoot off my mouth about how easy the installation will … Continue reading

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Can’t use PSconfig to create SharePoint 2010 configdb

On a client’s site today I was having a horrible time trying to use psconfig to create a configdb. The reason I was doing it is because the client wanted every SharePoint database to have a certain prefix on the … Continue reading

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Memoirs of a SharePoint 2010 pilot install

I had a one-day quick gig yesterday where the client had a blanked VM ready and an existing SQL server. He wants to show his users and stakeholders what SharePoint 2010 looks like but doesn’t really know what his or … Continue reading

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Planning for Search and Profile Crawl Schedules

Stuff that could make a difference: For Incremental crawls (of regular SharePoint content) Farm architecture Is the indexer (and/or the target server) host separated or doing other tasks?  If it’s doing other tasks, you must take into account the kind … Continue reading

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Take this job and…

I know a very talented and successful developer who definitely makes six figures in annual salary.  But every now and again, he’ll have a really tough day and he’ll turn to me and say, “I think I’ll quit my job … Continue reading

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IIS WAMREG DCOM permissions for Server 2008 R2

Here’s an interesting nugget.  If you use a “least privileges approach” in setting up MOSS with the full array of service accounts (and you should), there are several permission changes that you need to make to DCOM config in order … Continue reading

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“The list is too large to save as a template.”

If you’re working with a SharePoint 2007 environment with multiple site collections but do not have access to cool tools to manage moving content around, then you may have had this problem:  Someone needed to move a Document Library from … Continue reading

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Troubleshoot MOSS Profile Sync Issues

There was a problem at a client site where user profiles were not getting synced on certain content databases while others were getting synced. Out of the box, MOSS is set to run the profile sync timer job once every … Continue reading

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What release does my SharePoint version number mean?

A coworker ranted for a while about people blogging information and not updating it or simply pointing to authoritative sources. His ire was kindled recently because he was looking for documentation on what MOSS version numbers correlate to what updates. … Continue reading

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