A SharePoint list was filling up rapidly and had exceeded 5,000 items. Not wanting to use filtered views, the user instead wanted to archive the older items. This seemed like the perfect automation nut to to crack open with the PowerShell ISE editor. Keep reading to learn how to archive a SharePoint list. Continue reading “Archive a SharePoint List”
I have some rather complex SPD workflows built. Complex meaning multiple approval levels and multiple tasks. Recently we applied SP1 to our SharePoint Server 2010 environment as well as a recent Cumulative Update (CU). After the update 2 of the workflows began showing this error:
Continue reading “SP Causes Workflow “Failed to Start” Error”
Here is the collection of Show Me How videos from Microsoft for SharePoint 2010. These videos are part of the Microsoft SharePoint Adoption Kit and include some great examples. My favorites are video 1 – phonetic search, video 2 – co-authoring Word documents, video 6 – the Group Work Site and video 9 – workflow and document approval.
Continue reading “SharePoint Adoption Kit – Show Me How Videos”
Here is an SAP Note and an Appendix that both help define optimization and the Fact tables:
When trying to add a web part to a page, sometimes the Web Part button is disabled. To enable the Web Part button:
While troubleshooting a failed User Profile Synchronization Service, I needed to clear the config cache. The config cache is where config settings are stored locally on the Microsoft SharePoint server, so a SQL call isn’t required. Sometimes these files get corrupted, which happened to me while setting up the User Profile Synchronization Service.
To clear them: Continue reading “Microsoft Sharepoint User Profile Synchronization I – Clearing the Config Cache”
These are some loose notes from setting up load balancing in a BPC 7.5 MS environment.
Recently doing a BPC install in a Network Load Balanced (NLB) environment and ran into an error when testing the Reporting Services on the second application server. When clicking on the Report Manager URL I would receive the error:
The report server installation is not initialized
It turns out I needed to go back to the first server and run Reporting Services Configuration Manager and select Scale Out Deployment, then join server two.
My Turtle Works web site was running slow. Being that it runs in WordPress I wondered if I needed better performance from the server. After calling ReadyHosting.com support they introduced me to a simpler way to improve performance. Optimizing the MySql tables used by WordPress.
Once I optimized my home page load time went from 10 seconds to 3 seconds.
As Jethro Tull used to sing, ‘Nothing is easy…’. Although installing SP1 for SharePoint 2010 isn’t hard, there are a few extra steps beyond running the .exe for SP1.
If installing SP1 for SharePoint Foundation 2010, then run:
If installing SP1 for SharePoint Server 2010, then run:
Finally, after installing SP1 and the Cumulative Update, you must run the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard to tell the system it is now SP1.
