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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...

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...

Integrating Exchange 2007 Messaging Records Management with SharePoint Document Libraries – Part 2

Posted by George Khalil in Exchange, Exchange 2007, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007 on Jul 22nd, 2009 | 0 Comments

Welcome back to the final post in this 2 part series, Integrating Exchange 2007 MRM with SharePoint Document Libraries. Today’s post will wrap things up by going through the process of mail enabling an existing SharePoint document library and creating a new managed content setting in Exchange 2007 providing us with the ability to journal a copy of all messages moved into our “Project XYZ” managed folder located in Outlook, into our Shared collaborative Document Library under our Project Team Site. Recall from part 1, that the objective of integrating Exchange MRM with SharePoint is to provide...

Integrating Exchange 2007 Messaging Records Management with SharePoint Document Libraries – Part 1/2

Posted by George Khalil in Exchange, Exchange 2007, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007 on Jul 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments

There are two technologies in my IT Pro life that I am very passionate about, SharePoint and Exchange, so why not incorporate both passions in a single blog post. In this two part series I will be discussing how we can manage email records from our Exchange mailboxes and archive them in SharePoint Document Libraries for compliance or collaboration reasons. Exchange 2007 introduced a great new feature set in the name of “Messaging Records Management” or commonly referred to as MRM. Managed Default Folders is a key component of MRM which will assist us in achieving our archiving strategy. ...

SharePoint, My Site and Managing User Profile Properties – Part 2/2

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint, SharePoint 2007 on Jul 9th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Welcome to part 2 of My Site & Managing User Profile Properties. In Part 1 we introduced User Profile Properties and how these can be automatically populated via Windows Active Directory (AD). We also went into some detail regarding the Organization Hierarchy Web part. You can access part 1 here if you missed it. In today’s post our focus is around creating additional profile properties either by mapping to existing fields in Active Directory such as Company or creating a field which may not necessarily be mapped to Active Directory but is required to be entered by the user manually. ...

SharePoint, My Site and Managing User Profile Properties – Part 1/2

Posted by George Khalil in SharePoint, SharePoint 2007 on Jun 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments

A couple of months ago I posted an article introducing My Site and social enterprise networking with SharePoint, and focused the discussion around tracking colleagues via the colleague tracker web part. If you missed that article, you can access it here. I also promised that I would provide future articles discussing other My Site features so here is a two part series on My Site and Managing user profile properties with today’s discussion around populating Windows Active Directory (AD). Some of the common question’s asked are what fields should be populated in AD and how does one populate the...

Securing your SharePoint Sites with ISA 2006 using Forms Based Authentication – Part 2/2

Posted by George Khalil in ISA, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007 on Jun 19th, 2009 | 0 Comments

In the second and last part of this series we will be focusing our efforts in securing our SharePoint Site through setting up a publishing rule in ISA 2006. If you recall in the first article, we began our setup by extending the default SharePoint site into the Internet Zone, created a certificate request via IIS to be sent to a 3rd Party Certificate Authority and applied the certificate to our newly created extended site. If you missed it, you can access part 1 here. So let’s begin the second part of our setup! The first item we need to address is the newly created certificate that has been...