As SharePoint grows and morphs and becomes your information beast, it sometimes feels like it slows down. This is usually typical in implementations where the proper optimizations were not applied early on. It's okay, it's still possible to recover and improve some of your SharePoint's loss of performance. Disclaimer Performance can be significantly degraded by... Continue Reading →
FAST Search isn’t 100% with Claims Based Authentication
If you have tried to configure FAST search for SharePoint with a site using CBA and/or kerberos, you probably noticed that the thumbnail images won't appear. Apparently a known issue: From MSDN forum post http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/2cf51010-7845-47bb-adcf-a009abcfcbb4/ Your reported issue is a known limitation in the current version of FAST Search for SharePoint, main reason being kerberos /... Continue Reading →
Giving mobile users the same experience in SharePoint 2010
In most cases, when I design and build a custom branded solution for a SharePoint site, the customer wants the site to render the same for mobile devices. Instead, SharePoint redirects the user to a different layout. This request is quite common across the world wide web. Most sites you visit on your computer will... Continue Reading →
Can’t log into SharePoint from the console?
This is an issue I'm seeing a little too often on SharePoint installs. Trying to access a site that is hosted on the same server will prompt for login credentials 3 times then display Page Cannot be Found. From what I've gathered it's a loopback check issue. I don't know all the technical issues behind... Continue Reading →
Managing SharePoint Sites Suck?
I've discovered that most complaints about SharePoint are from the self-imposed or top-down-imposed SharePoint administrators who are stuck with managing SharePoint sites. I do feel sorry for you guys, you didn't ask for it, or even if you did you probably thought it was suppose to be easier. In most cases, SharePoint was slapped together... Continue Reading →
A poem about SharePoint
Like a nice cold beer that fills our cup We hope that Sharepoint will stay up Our search will work, it will be great Else version 3 you will also hate. The info is there, it is all so handy If this one fails, we’ll all blame Andy As shared by a... Continue Reading →
Effectively reading SharePoint Logs
I don't think anyone actually enjoys reading the SharePoint logs. It can be overwhelming. I've found a few techniques to mastering the logs and finding what you really want, fast. First, you need to crank up diagnostic logging in Central Admin. The default logging levels don't do a good job of reporting everything. So hop... Continue Reading →
SharePoint PowerShell – a newbie’s findings
Yes, at this point in my life, I'm very new to PowerShell, and I'm okay with that. I was hesitant to make the jump, especially for use with SharePoint. Using stsadm for the last 7 years has been my security blanket. PowerShell, the new kid on the block, appeared to be threatening, almost bully like.... Continue Reading →
SharePoint Admin Pack – Workflows and Site Columns
A while back I whipped together some web parts for assisting in troubleshooting and managing some elements in SharePoint 2007 which wasn't easy to do then. I've since converted them to SharePoint 2010. They're available for download on http://sp2010adminpack.codeplex.com. Workflow ManagerThe Workflow Manager web part allows an admin to view all active and attached workflows in... Continue Reading →
David Lozzi 