MVP Award Kit Unboxed – Back from Holidays

Dear all,   I already got the happy notice on July, 1st while on the way to the holidays. I returned 2 days ago and finally could embrace the MVP Award Kit!   In fact, I’m the first SharePoint Server MVP from South Tyrol, and one among only few in Italy.   The MVP Award [...]

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SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 Cool Feature: Restore Deleted Site

Dear all,   one of the definitely nicest features of the Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2010 is the ability to restore single sites, which wasn’t possible before.   Procedure for restoring a site pre-SP1: Restore entire farm from backup.   Drawbacks: Time consuming, costly. Most of the times not performed at all.   [...]

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Increase PerformancePoint Services Availability: Associate a Failover Database

Dear all, while you can plan and organize availability on farm level by configuring Network Load Balancing and also SQL Server database mirroring and failover clustering, you do also have the possibility to plan for high availability on service application level, especially for critical service applications like PerformancePoint. In order to perform this, you must [...]

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Toggle SharePoint Developer Dashboard using PowerShell

Dear all, the same way that you can Toggle the Developer Dashboard using STSADM.exe, you can also toggle it using PowerShell. It is slightly more complicated, but works just as fine and it’s also faster than the STSADM command. Let’s have a look: $service = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService]::ContentService $ddSettings =$service.DeveloperDashboardSettings $ddSettings.DisplayLevel = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeveloperDashboardLevel]::OnDemand $ddSettings.Update() What it does, [...]

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Toggle SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard using STSADM

Dear all, The developer dashboard is a very handy tool in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, when it comes to analyzing how your site is loading and finding potential bottlenecks. It displays information about databases, webservices, the current page itself and so on. You can see an example of the developer dashboard here. Once enabled, it [...]

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SharePoint MVP Award Received!

Dear all, this week is just awesome! After receiving the Microsoft Community Contributor 2011 Award, it is a great great pleasure & honour to announce that today I have been awarded with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award as of July 2011, in the field of SharePoint Server 2010! This means I am the first [...]

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I’m on Vacation for 2 Weeks – but my Blog is Not ;-)

Dear all, I’m on vacation for the next 2 weeks and will be back on July, 18th. However, this blog is not standing still in the meantime. It will continue emitting posts about SharePoint and Office 365 throughout the next 2 weeks, since I prepared and scheduled several posts, so please check back here regularly. Wish [...]

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Shallow Copy in SharePoint Server 2010 SP1: RbsProviderMapping

Dear all,   Shallow Copy is one of the new features added by the SharePoint Server 2010 SP1. Citing Microsoft, it does the following:   Shallow copy is a migration technique in which structured site collection data is moved across content databases while the unstructured data remains untouched in its originally configured BLOB store.   [...]

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