Technologies

Project Barcelona: A Revolution in Enterprise Metadata Management – Part 2

by Chris Tao

In my last article, we discussed the nature of metadata, the need for metadata management in the modern enterprise, and some fundamental information about Project Barcelona. In this article, we will go through the Project Barcelona product UI  to see how it can help Enterprise IT administrators on metadata management work. The Project Barcelona product [...]

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A Microsoft SQL Server DMV/DMF Cheat-Sheet

by Mohit Gupta

I am asked this question by Microsoft SQL Server customers again and again: “What dynamic management views (DMV) or dynamic management functions (DMF) should I use?” The short answer is, as many as you need. The detailed answer is, well, it depends. There are well over 150 DMV/DMFs spread across 20 some categories in 2012 [...]

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How To Monitor Disk Usage with System Center Operations Manager

by Michel Audet

Monitoring how much data is stored on a particular drive and displaying it in a graph and/or report format is often requested by customers running Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Writing a standalone VBScript or PowerShell script isn’t overly complicated, but it generally resides outside of enterprise applications and is often managed and administered by [...]

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How To Customize The SharePoint Navigation Drop Down Menu

by Chandrasekar Natarajan

In a Microsoft SharePoint 2007 site, when we take the mouse pointer on the top link bar we get the drop down menu for that particular site. The drop down that shows up after placing the mouse pointer (an example is shown below) is sometimes too quick in that it doesn’t allow you to choose [...]

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Understanding NAT When Setting Up Lync, Part 2 – STUN and TURN Explained

by Joe Lefort

Better late than never. I finally got a bit of free time to try to explain part two of the ICE NAT and media stuff I began a while back – that being STUN and TURN. First off, not all NATs are the same, and that is the key to whether STUN or TURN gets [...]

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How to Debug Exchange 2007/2010 OOF Replies That Don’t Properly Trigger

by PFE EMEA Messaging Engineers

I recently faced an issue with Out-of-Office (OOF) replies not working properly under Exchange 2007 SP3 with RU3 which was not easy to identify, and I thought it was interesting enough to share with you, along with the associated solution. The Symptoms: The OOF doesn’t trigger for all mailboxes located on a server. Only one [...]

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Managing SharePoint User Profile Service Application Permissions with PowerShell

by Chandrasekar Natarajan

When the User Profile service application is configured in Microsoft SharePoint 2010, by default NT Authority\Authenticated Users and All Authenticated Users are granted permissions to create My Sites and use other features (personal and social) provided by the user profile service. But what if you don’t want to grant all of these permissions to all [...]

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How To Quickly Manage Groups With Groups In Exchange 2010

by PFE EMEA Messaging Engineers

A common issue with Exchange 2010 is that you are unable to allow a Distribution list to be managed by a “group”. This was changed by design in Exchange 2010 to allow greater separation of Active Directory and Exchange management using Split Permissions, a feature that a number of our customers asked for. A great [...]

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How Visual Studio 2010 F5 Solution Deployment Works With SharePoint

by Chandrasekar Natarajan

Let’s say in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 you create a new “ContentType” project by specifying the SharePoint site and solution type as farm solution. Inherit this new content Type from the Base Content Type of “Document”,  then add the CustomField and CustomContentType xml files in the solution, as follows: Elements.XML (CustomField) <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <Elements [...]

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Solving Additional Issues With Exchange OAB Download

by Rhoderick Milne

Frank Plawetzki posted a great article on issues that can affect how clients retrieve their Offline Address Book (OAB).  This has also been the source of some recent work for myself, though with slightly different root causes.  The issues that I have encountered were due to: Invalid SSL Certificate OAB web.config file Invalid Certificate Installation [...]

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How To Automate SharePoint 2010 Installation Using AutoSPInstaller

by Chris Tao

(Note:  this post was updated April 2, 2012)  Deploying a large scale Microsoft SharePoint 2010 farm is typically a challenge for Enterprise IT administrators. Not only does the default PSConfig GUI wizard require administrators to manually finish each step, it doesn’t provide the administrator with the ability to customize some of the underlying parameters, such [...]

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How to setup a software PBX to test the PSTN features of Lync Server

by Joe Lefort

In my last article, Why You Need To Understand NAT When Setting Up Lync or OCS,  I talked a fair bit about the edge and NAT. I thought this article would be all about the STUN and TURN mechanisms mentioned in that post, but other shinier lights got in the way. Those lights are: bringing [...]

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How To Use a User Control (Web Service Call) in a SharePoint Web Part

by Chandrasekar Natarajan

In a typical ASP.NET application, using a User Control is pretty straight forward, we just need to map the control to an ObjectDataSource and bind its settings. But in Microsoft SharePoint Server, when an ObjectDataSource control is used, it will throw the error message saying “The type specified in the TypeNameProperty can be found“.  The [...]

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