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January 2010 - Quest SharePoint Experts Mirror

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  • 10 Reasons your CIO should NOT block Social Networking

    While I agree consumer social media at work can be a conflict of interest for a business, but understanding the networking and valid business reasons of building the culture leveraging the new capabilities and transforming the business to better compete and stay on top of what the customer cares about… Do you want to block that too? I do NOT agree that blind firewall rules to block both blogs and micro blogging should simply be created to put up an invisible wall. Business departments across most companies will have valid BUSINESS reasons to use social media outlets and have legitimate reasons to participate in the networking or to data mine. In response to Christian Buckley’s Top 10 Reasons Your CIO Blocks Social Media I put together 10 Reasons your CIO should NOT block Social Networking sites...

  • What’s new in Security Mapping in version 5.3?

    Security mapping has always been one of the strongest parts of Notes Migrator for SharePoint and a great differentiator for us. Someone who is familiar with our rich capabilities in this area will probably be surprised to see how many things we found to add to the list in this release. The good part is that while we nearly doubled the capabilities here, we think we actually improved the usability at the same time. Most people should be able to get by with a few easy-to-understand checkboxes and only a few will need to go into the Advanced areas. But for those that need it, they will have more power than ever! 1. First some cosmetic changes. We organized our increasingly confusing array of security mapping checkboxes into dialog groups and have renamed them to be clearer. Hopefully this will...

  • I will be presenting at TEC

    The Experts Conference (TEC) 2010 is North America's only conference offering 400-level training on Microsoft’s Active Directory, Forefront Identity Manager, Exchange and SharePoint technologies. You would not believe the amount of deep dive content here. I personally will be presenting [ link ] an expanded (more technical) version of my “ 10 Ways SharePoint 2010 Will Impact Your Lotus Notes Migrations ” talk. TEC 2010 takes place April 25-28, 2010, at the brand new JW Marriott LA Live Hotel in the heart of Los Angeles. Register soon at www.theexpertsconference.com Read More...

  • Understanding Feature and Code Depreciation for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010

    You hear about all the new features in SharePoint 2010, but what isn’t there? I bet you haven’t had many of those discussions yet. I think the news is better and I think the news is understandable. When you look through the methods in a list like this, it can sometimes look overwhelming, but compared to older versions, this is much much smaller than previous. There are a few notes to help you understand the deprecation from a developer perspective first, and then will discuss the features in the product. Files listed on Code.MSDN. Useful for troubleshooting and being aware of how the API types and methods have changed. SPS2010NewlyDeprecated.txt – A fairly short list of depreciated types and methods no longer supported in SharePoint 2010. SPS2010Deprecated.txt documentation, 528K, uploaded...

  • Migrate to SharePoint 2010 TODAY

    We just launched the Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.3 beta [ link ], which is our first release that supports migrating to SharePoint 2010. The tool works with both SharePoint Foundation (formerly known as WSS) and SharePoint Server 2010 (formerly known as MOSS). Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.3 has been tested with the SharePoint 2010 public betas and new release candidate. All current functionality (the stuff you could do when migrating to SharePoint 2007) works in the beta today and we will be adding additional functionality to support new 2010 features in the coming months. I should clarify my use of the word “support” above… The Quest support organization does not support beta products. So even when Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.3 ships, using the tool against SharePoint 2010 betas...

  • Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.3 beta is now available

    First of all, I just updated the 5.3 feature list originally posted two months ago [ link ]. We ended up expanding this considerably and added several major additional pieces. Not the least of which is full SharePoint 2010 beta support! For details on how to access the beta code, please visit the beta landing page here: http://sharepointforall.com/content/NMSP53Beta.aspx . This release is scheduled to ship in late February. Read More...

  • SharePoint PowerShell List Update

    Body: It’s been a while since I talked about the SharePoint PowerShell list and I just added a cool new feature that will make the list much easier to use. I watched the Boris Gomiunik session on CEWP last night at #SPSEMEA and was blown away by some of the great things he did with JavaScript. During his demo #5 I had a aha moment and decided that what the list needed was a little Boris :-) I implemented his demo #5 on the list and now you can browse each category by the letter it begins with. Pretty cool and very useful. Check out the list at http://www.sharepointmadscientist.com/Lists/powershell Learn more about Boris Gomiunik’s solutions at http://gomiunik.codeplex.com/ Published: 1/23/2010 9:59 PM Read More...

  • Really Cool Stuff & Quest

    Body: As a product manager at Quest Software I get to do and see fun stuff every day and I am constantly surprised by how many cool things are going on at Quest. Here’s my top 5 favorite Quest innovations at the moment: #1. PowerGUI – As a .Net developer reliant on the Visual Studio experience, one thing I hate about scripting in PowerShell is not knowing exactly what methods and operations are allowed. PowerGUI to the rescue. PowerGUI is a free Graphical User Interface (GUI) and Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Windows PowerShell that gives you among many other things, intellisense for PowerShell objects. This makes scripting way faster and more intuitive. Moreover, the PowerPack concept and massive community adoption means PowerGUI will only grow more useful over time. Watch the...
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  • Free SharePoint Reports with No Server Install

    Body: I’m happy to announce the public beta of Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint Reports On Demand, a new free SharePoint product that provides the ability to get reports without installing anything on the server. This new reporting functionality requires simply a simple download, a client install on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7. You put your URL or URLs in the tool for reporting. If you are a site collection admin you can get recursive storage reports which include sizes of the various webs, including file type reports, and other reports to help understand your content storage. These reports leverage the Cloud, Microsoft’s Azure to make updates to the client software. The product is designed to be installed with no install on the server. The calls are from the client to the web services...

  • How to Remove Corrupted SharePoint Sites – Preparing for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

    SP2 had a number of enhancements designed around making it easier to upgrade to SharePoint 2010. One such new feature that wasn’t popularized is your ability to find and remove corrupted, broken sites known as orphans. As I’ve mentioned in the past, with SharePoint being split across multiple databases, it is quite possible that a site could be in either the content database OR the config database. With service pack 2 there’s a new way to find orphaned sites. In addition to running STSADM –o PreUpgradeCheck , one of my favorite tools along with TEST-SPContentDatabase with SharePoint 2010 you can identify these messed up corrupted sites. You’ll run enumallwebs (STSADM reference on TechNet) to identify the orphaned sites, and use deletesite (STSADM reference on TechNet) to remove them. Note this...

  • SharePoint Puerto Rico and the Broader Latin SharePoint Community

    Body: I’ve had the privilege of spending the last couple of days on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico. Some people only focus on the U.S. and miss out on the amazing things going on with SharePoint around the world. I definitely have been blessed and consider it an honor to play the evangelist role and fill you in on what’s going on in different parts of the community around the globe. Here’s the Free MS SharePoint Event that’s going on tomorrow in Puerto Rico. Microsoft & Trinexus Presents: Preparing for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 Saludos y bienvenidos a este Nuevo Año lleno de oportunidades! A continuación una invitación a nuestro primer evento, completamente gratis e incluye desayuno, almuerzo y estacionamiento. Agradeceré confirmen su asistencia a esta servidora. With all the buzz...

  • SharePoint Community Unites to Help Haiti

    I’ve been pleased to see some in the community rally to help our those in Haiti. I’ve followed a few conversations on Twitter where friends such as Molly Hightower a friend of @klseargant was killed. The first day it happened I blew it off before I really knew the details. As soon as I realized the scale of it, and saw the faces of the people I looked at twitter and saw a bunch of posts with links, a lot on the text message to send $10 to Red Cross. It was very easy to do. One way I can help is simply bringing awareness of the efforts of those in the community putting in to help us understand the impact. An in the case of Dux who has setup a fund, I’d like to help in one way I can. Jose noticed there wasn’t many SharePoint tweets about Haiti. I think many of us don’t know what to say, and retweeting...

  • SharePoint 2010 Upgrade: Test-SPContentDatabase - Key to Successful Upgrade

    Body: One of the greatest enhancements to upgrade to SharePoint 2010 is the work that was done in PreUpgradeCheck and in the powershell commandlets of Test-SPContentDatabase and Upgrade-SPContentDatabase. Test-SPContent Database is very similar to the stsadm command PreUpgradeCheck, but it works with both 2007 and 2010. This command can be pointed at a database that isn’t part of the farm! That’s the coolest. If you want to see how a content database would fare in a given farm you can run the Test-SPContentDatabase command and get information on issues that would impact the farm you’re importing it into. Is the database compatible? Does it have all the assemblies installed, all the relevant features and solutions all set? Well run the commandlet to find out. Many will be building new SharePoint...

  • 10 Key Questions Determining SharePoint SQL Server Count

    One of the tough questions you will ask yourself when building out the SQL environment for SharePoint for your enterprise is what do you need? Those determining the license may be asked this question far before the SharePoint consultants are engaged. These questions apply to both SharePoint 2003, 2007, and 2010. I see this as a set of questions rather than a magical formula that could be added into a spreadsheet. Determining whether these servers are reallocated existing, virtual or physical is another conversation. 1. Organizations and Organizational Politics - Will more than 1 IT organization be managing their own SharePoint environment? Frequently one departmental IT group will setup their own environment separate from another. As an example, HR IT may setup their own WCM publishing portal...

  • Best BBQ Across America Challenge: SharePoint Tweetup and SharePint

    Body: I’ve been on an extended holiday family vacation and will be flying out of Raleigh on the 7th, but really wanted to get together with the troops in the region before I fly out. The #ShareBBQ thing has been the theme these past few weeks in my search for U.S.A’s Best BBQ. Hilton Head Island, SC has been amazing. Kudos to the SC people. I’ve definitely got to get back to this part of the world, sometime this spring or summer to really see it. Here’s a couple of the past #ShareBBQ events… St Louis style ribs with @mattbremer @mhenthorn in St Louis at Pappy’s Smokehouse featured in Man vs. Food Kansas City style ribs at #SPSKC in with @catpaint1 @ericharlan @mrackley at Oklahoma Joes in a gas station, highlighted as one of the 7 places you have to eat before you die, by Anthony Bourdain Top...
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