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September 2010 Blog Posts

Article: “Stuck on Starting”: Common Issues with SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization

Back about a week after RTM of SharePoint 2010 I published my Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization. This was actually written up long before RTM and was doing the rounds among a circle of SharePoint “insiders”. I then tweaked it for RTM and pushed it out immediately after the SharePoint Evolutions Conference, where I had demoed live the steps. Amazingly, this article has already been viewed over 260,000 times! An incredible response. Of course the Microsoft documentation in this area is weak at present, and UPS is what you could call a “rough edge” of...

Rational Guide to Multi Tenancy with SharePoint 2010, Part Six: Provisioning Tenants

This, the sixth part of the Rational Guide article on multi tenancy, will walk through the creation of feature packs and the provisioning of Tenants for the sample scenario detailed in part three. Provisioning Tenants If you haven’t checked out the previous parts, I strongly encourage you to review them. I won’t repeat information and I assume you have read the previous parts, which are: Feature and Capability Overview Planning your Deployment Example Scenario and what Multi Tenancy brings to the party Configuring...

SharePoint Connections, The Hague, 28 & 29th September

I have the privilege of speaking at the upcoming SharePoint Connections conference in the very pleasant indeed city of Den Haag (The Hague). The event is being held on 28th and 29th September, and you can find out full details and register at http://www.devconnections.com/speurope/. I will be delivering the following breakouts: MIT03: Lessons Learned and Best Practices from Enterprise Deployments of SharePoint This session covers the lessons learnt by early enterprise deployments of SharePoint Server 2010. Focusing on SharePoint 2010 specifics, the session will detail these lessons along with...

Rational Guide to Multi Tenancy with SharePoint 2010, Part Five: Creating Partitioned Service Applications

This, the fifth part of the Rational Guide article on multi tenancy will walk through the creation of the partitioned service applications and the starting of their related service instances for the sample scenario detailed in part three. 5. Creating Partitioned Service Applications If you haven’t checked out the previous parts, I strongly encourage you to review them. I won’t repeat information and I assume you have read the previous parts, which are: Feature and Capability Overview Planning your Deployment Example Scenario and what Multi Tenancy...

Rational Guide to Multi Tenancy with SharePoint 2010, Part Four: Configuring the base infrastructure

This, the fourth part of the Rational Guide article on multi tenancy will start to walk through the configuration of the sample scenario detailed in the previous part. This is where we get into the meat of things. 4. Configuring the base Infrastructure If you haven’t checked out the previous parts, I strongly encourage you to review them. I won’t repeat information and I assume you have read the previous parts, which are: Feature and Capability Overview Planning your Deployment Example Scenario and what Multi Tenancy...