Welcome to my blog mainly about SharePoint
It appears the User Profile Database growth issue I posted about previously has been resolved with the February cumulative update for SharePoint 2010. In my previous post, a temporary solution was provided that involved creating a stored procedure and running it on a scheduled basis to clean up the appropriate tables. In reviewing the KB [...]
This morning I received an interesting support ticket. The reported issue was that when clicking a document from SharePoint it would completely freeze the browser and Word. I tried it from my desk and was able to reproduce the issue. It was only occurring with a specific document. Immediately I thought this form must be [...]
SharePoint is a platform I am pretty passionate about and I have been doing it for many years. Unfortunately, over the past year my priorities at work have shifted to other projects and my SharePoint interactions have been limited. 2012 is going to have some new challenges and learning experiences for me. My organization has [...]
A few years ago I developed a free SharePoint URL Shortener and released it to the community. I have not had much time to go back to it since. I had some time recently and decided to add a feature that I have wanted to have for a long time and many have asked for. [...]
If your organization is rolling out Windows 7 with Office 2010 in your environment but you are still using SharePoint 2007 you might notice that the “Set as default My Site” option is no longer working. Clicking this link is crucial to enabling the Office / SharePoint integration points. If you do not already know [...]
I was recently evaluating the web analytic reporting capabilities within SharePoint 2010 and ran into a strange problem. Although the reports were displaying correctly they would appear blank if I attempted to “Customize” them. After spending a few hours scouring the Internet and reading different posts and solutions I was able to piece together a [...]
The old Intranet served our company well over the last 10 years. It was a gateway into employee benefits, company activity, news, etc. There were a number of issues with our old Intranet. From a technology perspective, it was running on an old version of ColdFusion. From a content perspective, there was no true structure [...]
Using Windows Explorer view to copy and/or move files around is one of the most preferred methods for end-users when they are using SharePoint. It is a very familiar process because they have used it for years with network shares. I am sure that ever person that has used the Windows Explorer view has attempted [...]
If you have worked with SharePoint 2010 and created a User Profile Service Application (UPA) you may have noticed that your SyncDB is growing larger each and every day. Search around the Internet, you will find posts like this: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010setup/thread/70df46de-6dc3-4b2c-8cc6-70b3ff3eb3f4 Other people are definitely having this problem and there are no solutions on how to [...]
Adobe X was released at the end of last year and one of the feature points announced was “Native, seamless integration with Microsoft SharePoint”. On the surface, everything appears to work correctly and solved one of the main issues with Adobe Acrobat with SharePoint I blogged about in the past. Recently discovered that it is [...]
