Hi all I have opted to post this nugget of info in two formats, to account for different audiences For those who have a twitter-sized attention span… In SharePoint 2010, if you migrate site collections between SharePoint farms, and you …
Managed Metadata fun: Troubleshooting the Taxonomy Update Scheduler… Read more »
Hi all While I’d like to claim credit for the wisdom in this post, alas I cannot. One of Seven Sigma’s consultants (Daniel Wale) worked this one out and I thought that it was blog-worthy. Before I get into the …
A lesser known way to fine-tune SharePoint search precision… Read more »
Most SharePoint blogs tend to tell you cool stuff that the author did. Sometimes telling the dumb stuff is worthwhile too. I am in touch with my inner Homer Simpson, so I will tell you a quick story about one …
Hi all There are a couple of conferences happening this month that you should seriously consider attending. The New Zealand and Australian SharePoint Community Conferences. This year things have changed. There are over 50 Sessions designed to cater to …
Warts and all SharePoint caveats in Melbourne and Auckland Read more »
Hi all You would think that after years of installing SharePoint in various scenarios, that I would be able to get past step 3 in the configuration wizard (the step that creates the configuration database). But today I almost got …
An obscure “failed to create the configuration database” issue… Read more »
I’ve been nerding it up lately SharePointwise, doing the geeky things that geeks like to do like ADFS and Claims Authentication. So in between trying to get my book fully edited ready for publishing, I might squeeze out the odd …
Hiya A few months back I posted a relatively well behaved rant over the ridiculously complex User Profile Service Application of SharePoint 2010. I think this component in particular epitomises SharePoint 2010’s awful combination of “design by committee” clunkiness, along …
Consequences of complexity–the evilness of the SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service Read more »
Hiya [Note: I have written another article that illustrates a process for migrating the entire term store between farms.] My colleague Chris Tomich, recently saved the day with a nice PowerShell script that makes the management and migration of managed …
Migrating managed metadata term sets to another farm on another domain Read more »
Oh man, it’s just not my week. After nailing a certificate issue yesterday that killed user profile provisioning, I get an even better one today! I’ve posted it here as a lesson on how not to troubleshoot this issue! The …
Wow, isn’t the SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service just a barrel of laughs. Without a bit of context, when you compare it to SP2007, you can do little but shake your head in bewilderment at how complex it now appears. …
More User Profile Sync issues in SP2010: Certificate Provisioning Fun Read more »