I recently setup FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint 2010 and here are the documented steps:   FAST Search Server was installed on a dedicated server different from SharePoint 2010 server. FAST Server was not installed on a domain controller. FAST Server was patched with la... [More]

I was going through the steps of deleting content db using stsadm (as you know it does not delete the content database from SQL Server, but just removes the reference from SharePoint perspective) and using stsadm –o addcontentdb to attach a content database from production to development ser... [More]

I was setting up some BDC models in SharePoint 2010 which involves managing authorization levels for BDC Metadata Store. In Central Admin – BDC Service – Set Metadata Store Permissions Add an user and the Permissions box will be populated with different authorization roles. Initially... [More]

Philadelphia SharePoint community holds SharePoint Saturday events once or twice per year. On May 8, 2010, it will be a full day of SharePoint. My session covers BI features with SharePoint http://www.tristatesharepoint.com/spsphilly/may2010/Lists/Sessions/DispForm.aspx?ID=17 The session wil... [More]

It's time again for another community presentation on SP 2010. I will be presenting SharePoint 2010 session at New Horizons, King of Prussia on April 15th, 2010 at 9:30am. SharePoint 2010 Demo will cover Administration, ALM, VS 2010, Visual Web Parts, Visio Services, Business Intelli... [More]

  In MOSS 2007, there was no possible way to browse unattached content database (excluding third party tools). SharePoint 2010 lets you browse a content database without attaching it to the farm. The following walkthrough will show you the steps to browse an unattached content database. I w... [More]

Time for Phillydotnet usergroup Code camp. We have a whole track dedicated to SharePoint. My session will cover sandboxed solutions development with SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Application Lifecycle management (ALM) using Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010. As of this date, the registrations f... [More]

Here is the code snippet that would invoke SharePoint 2010 Powershell cmdlets from VS 2010 1: private void invokeSPCmdlet() 2: { 3: // create runspace configuration 4: RunspaceConfiguration config = RunspaceConfiguration.Create(); 5:&... [More]

I was setting up a demo to populate a Visio 2010 (Beta version) data diagram that reads data from a SQL Server table. I created the data connections in Visio, saved it as Web drawing and published to SharePoint 2010 successfully. But, when I go to view the Visio diagram on the web that... [More]

It's time again for another community presentation on SP 2010. I will be presenting 2 sessions at New Horizons, King of Prussia on Feb 4, 2010 -- SharePoint 2010 Preview and Business Intelligence (BI) with SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 will cover Administration, ALM, VS... [More]