ever since working with SharePoint 2010 i wondered how the navigation was configured. then this morning i found this qoute.

Once you activate publishing for a site collection, every template within that

site collection will use the publishing navigation controls. This means that if

you create a team site as a subsite to a publishing site, that team site will use the

publishing navigation, not the team site navigation described earlier.

 

Hope this will information will help others also.

Regards,

eric

A question i hear from a lot of customers is:

Do i need to update/upgrade to Office 2010 when upgrading to SharePoint 2010 ? Most companies don’t want to update (again) and tell there users a new version of Office will be installed.

What you need to know is: Which features of SharePoint 2010 require Office 2010. If that is known you can decide to upgrade to Office 2010, or to postpone this upgrade.

• Open, edit, and save documents using Office Web Apps
• View and update SharePoint ’ s managed keywords and tags
• Display SharePoint’s managed keywords and tags within the actual document
• Navigate by keywords when browsing existing Office documents
• Reduced protection of documents using Microsoft Information Rights Management (IRM)
• Reduced ability to add digital signatures with Microsoft IMS
• Restrict editing per user with Microsoft IMS
• Allow co-authoring of an Office document in realtime
• Offline access to SharePoint content with SharePoint Workspace
• Integrate Microsoft Access applications in SharePoint

 

If these features are not required or a not important at first, you can decide not to upgrade to office 2010.at least not at first. you can always decide later to upgrade.

Hope this information will help others to decide if an upgrade is needed.

regards,

Eric

 

I found a nice atricle introducing : Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Development

it’s an article from the MSDN magazine

eric

If you installed Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 For Internet Sites Enterprise, and then you tried to activate the product by using the enterprise key before May 25, 2010, you encounter the following symptoms:

• The following Enterprise features are not available, or the features have reduced functionality:
  • Access Services
  • InfoPath Forms Services
  • Chart Web Parts
  • Excel Services
  • PerformancePoint Services
  • Visio Services

To verify that you are encountering this issue, consider the following scenarios:

• One of the following GUIDs exists in the output of the (Get-SPFarm).Products cmdlet:
  • 1F230F82-E3BA-4053-9B6D-E8F061A933FC
  • F48AC5F3-0E33-44D8-A6A9-A629355F3F0C
• The following registry subkey contains one of the previous GUIDs:
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\WSS\InstalledProducts\{90140000-110D-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE}

For more info and a solution look here : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2143810

Yesterday we installed SharePoint 2010 on a new server.

Since it’s a pilot to check out new functionality and to see if we can accomplish what we want, we started out with a “moderate” server.

After installing, i went to the central administration and saw i got a critical issue.

Nice to be informed about this , but i didn’t expect it. I had already done the installation twice, to get acquainted with the new version. So , i was unpleasantly surprised.

You are offered a hyperlink to show the critical issue.

It was: Drives are at risk of running out of free space

How was this possible. So i decided to check out the free disk space. it was 29 Gb.

So that could never be the issue. But, after reading the complete error message i found out it was an issue.

The complete error message was (click on the issue to see the complete message):

Available drive space is less than five times the value of physical memory. This is dangerous because it does not provide enough room for a full memory dump with continued operation. It also could cause problems with the Virtual Memory swap file:

And that was correct because it had 6Gb memory installed.

5 * 6 Gb = 30 Gb > 29 GB.

So remember : the amount of memory installed is reflected on the amount of needed free disk space.

Regards,

Eric

How odd.

Today i wanted to isntall the SharePoint designer 2010.  So i went to the several Micsosoft websites (Office en SharePoint) to look for the download.

Nowhere to find !

even when searching the Microsoft site , i only found references to the beta versions. But, when searching for SharePoint Designer specific in the downloads section: the finally popped up.

For all you out there also searching for it, here are the links

• Â
  • SharePoint Designer 2010 (32 bit)
  • SharePoint Designer 2010 (64 bit)

Before i forget, i worked with the new version some hours now, and it’s really nice to see that it’s much better then the 2007 version!

regards,

Eric

As of today for those access to a MSDN account can download:

• SharePoint 2010
• Office 2010

Have fun with it !

For those who didn’t hear it yet (not sure if that is possilbe )

SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM!

For me personally the most important information about the release was:

They will be able to download the product in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Dutch via the Volume Licensing Service Center starting April 27

Yes !! This release we don’t have to wait until the dutch language pack comes out.
And yes i will install the english version, but i still need the dutch support/language files to satisfy the user .

For everyone who is considering installing SharePoint in their native language from the start > rethink !

Not sure if you know what you are doing but the error messages are also translated. And this doesn’t make it easy to search for answers, if you don’t know what the problem is.

Those who know, know you like an English base installation. However, don’t forget : the language of the sitecollection is the default language of al sub-sites.

NOTE: not sure how SharePoint 2010 handles this, have’n't had the change to test this yet.

Eric

So finaly i got a customer who asked me to do something i really didn’t know if it was possible.

Already been working on it for 2 days now and it seems that i have got it working.

Ok, so what was the wish of this customer:
I have a SharePoint 2003 32 bit single server dutch installation with a sql 2000 database. It has some custom webparts, some custom templates and sitescollections have some odd behaviours. Please transform this environment to a SharePoint 2007  environment 64 bit on windows 2008 servers, using sql 2008 as database server, configured as a small farm, using a UK installation with dutch language packs.

Most of the wishes can be done separately, but all together, i was not sure if this was going to work.

furthermore, did i mention that the database was 50Gb 

Toplevel the next steps are taken

• upgrade SharePoint 2003 to sp2
• Run prescan tool
• backup database(s)
• install Sharepoint 2007
• install all needed language packs
• restore sql backup
• install templates
• copy images (from images folder in 12-hive)
• use stsadm with addcontentdb option
• manually correct all issues (some migrated lists, templates and functionality that was no longer working)

Et voila, we had over 90% working again.

So the next days i will be fine-tuning the installation, creating scripts, making an installation manual, because …. we have to do it all ones more .

Never a dull day in SharePoint land.

eric