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Warm up your SharePoint Web Applications on Windows 2008 R2 using the IIS 7.5 Application Warm-Up module

I have just recently built a new SharePoint 2007 farm on a complete Windows 2008 R2 server platform and part of my standard build procedure is to implement a warm up routine, usually in the form of a script that is scheduled every morning to launch my SharePoint Web Applications. Most of you will most likely know what I am referring to here, the slowness that end users experience when loading a SharePoint site for the first time in the morning!? By default IIS will recycle its worker processes during the night, in my case IIS 7.5 tells me this happens at 1:04 AM. You can locate this information in...

Upgrading your Content Database to SharePoint 2010 – Database Attach method

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 on Dec 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Welcome back to the second article in this series on upgrading a SharePoint 2007 content database to SharePoint 2010. In part 1 we deep dived into the preupgrade tool that Microsoft made available with SharePoint 2007 SP2 and today we will complete our upgrade journey utilising one of the 3 upgrade models that are available to you by Microsoft. These are listed as follows; In-place upgrade Database attach upgrade to a new farm Hybrid approach (Read –only databases or Detach databases) There is a wealth of information regarding these different approaches on the Microsoft TechNet site under the...

Upgrading your Content DB to SharePoint 2010 – Part 1, The preupgradecheck

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 on Dec 8th, 2009 | 0 Comments

I’m sure there are a lot of SharePointers out there who are excited about the 2010 release and as I have been working my way through the installation and configuration of this updated beast, I have also been providing you with posts along the way sharing my experiences. Today isn’t any different, and in this two part series I will be providing you with a guide to upgrading your SharePoint 2007 content databases to SharePoint 2010. There are already some great resources out there regarding upgrade options and preparation guidance including those from Microsoft on the TechNet Site and others...

Creating your first Web Application & Site Collection in SharePoint 2010

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 on Dec 1st, 2009 | 0 Comments

We are at the final article in this series in getting your SharePoint 2010 environment up and running, however the fun doesn’t end here (there will be plenty more posts on 2010 now that our test environment is up and running) . In this post I will be providing you with a step by step guide in creating your first SharePoint Web Application and Site Collection to host your sub webs. If you need to catch up on my previous posts in this series you can access them from the following links; Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta on a Windows 2008 R2 Server Configuring SharePoint 2010 Beta Service...

Configuring SharePoint 2010 Beta Service Applications and User Profile Service Synchronization

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 on Nov 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Welcome back to part 2 of this series in getting the basic bits and pieces of SharePoint 2010 beta up and running. If you recall in part 1, I provided a step by step guide in installing SharePoint 2010 Beta on a Windows 2008 R2 server. Today’s article will extend our setup and I will be providing another step by step guide in configuring SharePoint 2010 Service Applications in particular the User Profile Service in which I will create an Active Directory connection to import our users. Before delving into the step by step guide, let me provide you with a primer on Service Applications in...

Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta on a Windows 2008 R2 Server

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint 2010 on Nov 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments

With all the excitement around the recent public release of SharePoint 2010 beta, I am sure there are a lot of you who are installing, contemplating installing or have already installed the most anticipated version of SharePoint to date, albeit in beta form. In this introductory 3 part series I will provide you with step by step guides in the installation and basic configuration of SharePoint 2010 which also includes User Profile Synchronization and the creation of your first Web Application and Site Collection. The series will proceed as follows; Installing SharePoint 2010 Beta on a Windows...

SharePoint 2010 Beta 2 released to TechNet & MSDN subscribers – Rest of the public to follow soon.

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint 2010 on Nov 17th, 2009 | 0 Comments

This has to be one of the most anticipated releases of the decade, SharePoint 2010 Beta 2. SharePoint Developers, Architects and Administrators have been waiting anxiously to get their hands on the latest beta which may potentially be a “feature complete” release of SharePoint 2010, albeit in Beta form. SharePoint 2010 Beta 2, and let’s not forget Office 2010 Beta with its bits and pieces are made available for download to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. For those that don’t have those subscriptions, the predicted wait may only be a couple of days away, 18th November as stated...

SharePoint 2010 – Word has hit the streets

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint 2010 on Oct 20th, 2009 | 0 Comments

The word is out, SharePoint 2010 NDA has been uplifted and we are being bombarded with information that is coming out of the SharePoint 2009 conference in Las Vegas and by the SharePoint Product Team Blog. All I can say is WOW! Unfortunately I was not able to attend the conference, however I have been following my fellow SharePoint tweeps who are tweeting information from various sessions being held at the conference “live”. SharePoint 2010 is marketed as the release of the decade with great new features. The SharePoint Team blog describe SharePoint in 1 sentence, “8 categories...

How to display a SharePoint List from another site using the Data View Web Part

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint 2007 on Oct 14th, 2009 | 0 Comments

I first introduced the Data View Web Part (DVWP) in one of my articles earlier this year which you can access here and discussed a couple of scenarios in which you can utilise the DVWP. In today’s example I will elaborate on the DVWP and provide you with a step by step scenario in how you can display a SharePoint list from one site to another site. You can utilise the DVWP to connect to SharePoint Lists, Libraries, Database Connections etc within any site in a site collection and in today’s example I will replicate and display a SharePoint Calendar list from one Team Site to another Team...

Create your own SharePoint “Quote of the Day” Web Part using the CEWP – No Coding required

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint 2007 on Oct 6th, 2009 | 0 Comments

This question pops up every now and then and that is, how do I create a “quote of the day” web part to place on the front page of my SharePoint Intranet Portal. Quite easily is my response and in today’s post I will demonstrate how you can utilise the Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) to easily achieve this. As way of background, the CEWP is an out of the box SharePoint web part allowing you to add formatted text, tables, hyperlinks and images to a Web Part page. In addition to the above, the CEWP also allows you to add HTML content which we will utilise in the below example to create our...