The SharePoint Farmer's Almanac - All Comments

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re: Using PowerShell to export all solutions from your SharePoint 2010 farm and other fun

Natalia Tsymbalenko — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:10:10 GMT

Shane, a nice , elegant script!

Let me put my 5 cents.

There is SP PowerShell command that get farm solutions out of the farm: Get-SPSolutions technet.microsoft.com/.../ff607754.aspx

Here is my variation to get wsp solutions:

gallery.technet.microsoft.com/.../PowerShell-Script-for-80e93661

re: The world’s greatest SharePoint admin book is here

rss feed submission — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 08:14:23 GMT

Great blog post. It’s useful information.

re: A simple install of SQL Server 2012 for SharePoint Server 2013 or 2010

Christian — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:49:52 GMT

One of the most important guides available. Not only SP2013 installation is important, but SQL Server too. So this is very nice because it also tells stuff like setting of MAXDOP which is NECESSARY for 2013. So thanks again!!

re: View my install SharePoint 2013 Webinar

Shane — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:20:28 GMT

Usually if you cannot watch the video it is because you are having Java issues with your browser.

re: View my install SharePoint 2013 Webinar

Oscar Suarez — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:24:50 GMT

I can't see this valuable material because not a standard video format. What can I do to watch them?

Max Degree of Parallelism - What it is

David Lean — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:26:59 GMT

Thanks.

Nice to see people encouraging the minimum permissions necessary for that account & not just making everyone "SysAdmin".

PS:

The "Max Degree of parallelism" option tells SQL how many cores it is permitted to use if it decide to execute parts of your query in parallel.

Setting it to 0 (Zero) means can use all cores.

A setting of 1, prevents parallel query execution.

Splitting a query plan into multiple threads & then merging the results adds overhead to the query. This is worthwhile when you have a small set of users running big queries, typical of Data Warehouse environments.

It is not useful when large numbers of users will spread the load evenly anyway. Especially if they only want a small number of rows.

While the SQL Optimiser would probably get it right anyway. SharePoint turn it off just in case one user runs something big. It prevents them from hogging the Server.

re: How to get a flash movie in SharePoint

steven.disney@me.com — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:16:21 GMT

OK this works well in IE and SharePoint but does NOT with Firefox.

Does there need to be some other code needed for FF?

SharePoint: Recopilatorio de enlaces interesantes (III)!"

Blog del CIIN — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 06:49:14 GMT

Como siempre, al ser primero de mes os dejo el tradicional recopilatorio de enlaces interesantes sobre

SharePoint (2010 and 2013) Nuggets of the week 39

Ragnar Heil: SharePoint Nuggets — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:17:00 GMT

SharePoint Podcast by Michael Greth (in German) Number 237 with Hans Brender about SkyDrive (Pro)

re: How to get a flash movie in SharePoint

Phil — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:28:06 GMT

This helped enough to get something fixed that refused to work! THANKS!

re: New Advanced Information Worker Book

Jodhpuri suit — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:00:55 GMT

really loved reading your blog. It was very well authored and easy to understand. Unlike additional blogs I have read which are really not tht good. I also found your posts very interesting.

Sad Panda?

Sean McDonough — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:06:42 GMT

A sad panda? Really? I guess that's better than a sad clown. Clowns are creepy. I hate clowns.

All clowning-around aside ...

You make some excellent points; hopefully the "out of support" message for 2007 RTM is compelling enough to move them forward. I've worked with organizations like the one you describe. Invariably they have some governance or architecture group nestled away in an ivory tower - and those folks don't get out into the real world too much. They make their own reality, and it doesn't overlap too often with the reality that most of us call home.

Just out of curiosity: do they keep their Windows Servers patched, or are those as equally out-of-date? If the baseline OS is patched, I'd love to hear why they feel that patching it is "okay" but SharePoint isn't.

re: After SharePoint 2010 database attach upgrade alerts have the wrong URLs

Jen — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:04:15 GMT

I ran the first function and saw the old site urls referenced. I then looked in the sql tables for comparison. I then ran the next powershell to update the alert urls and it ran sucessfully however; the site urls did not change in the table. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. Also it would be great if you could add the output to a text file instead of it going to the UI. I spent a long time trying and ended up using start-transciprt which is really ugly.

Searching in SharePoint; IE10 Doesn't Work; The Good & Bad of Windows 8

SharePoint Daily — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:54:43 GMT

I think all weekends should be 3 days. - Dooley Top News Stories SharePoint 2010 Search: Relevance, Refinement

re: Why haven’t you patched your SharePoint farm?

Matt — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:36:35 GMT

I'm dealing with a similar upgrade in a couple weeks. Some added excitement, no one knows the passwords to the SharePoint accounts and no test farm. Tear, Tear! Good Luck!

re: Why haven’t you patched your SharePoint farm?

Octavio — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:05:17 GMT

Hear hear! Preach it brother Shane!

How to resolve 2000 items resolution in SharePoint Business Connectivity Services (BCS)

Marcello Tonarelli's Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blog — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:26:03 GMT

If you are working with a larger external list (more than 2000 items) in dev environment it works perfectly

How to resolve 2000 items resolution in SharePoint Business Connectivity Services (BCS)

Marcello Tonarelli's Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blog — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:18:12 GMT

If you are working with a larger external list (more than 2000 items) in dev environment it works perfectly

re: How to apply a custom team site definition to a site created using the base team site definition

The SharePoint King — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:54:10 GMT

This sucks....