Mark Arend
SharePoint 2010 Explorations
Host Named Site Collections (HNSC) for SharePoint 2010 Architects
I recently came across a very good blog posting on Host Named Site Collections (HNSC), and I...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/30/2012
Measuring Concurrent Site Users – SharePoint 2010 and other
This post was written as I was working to analyze traffic on SharePoint 2010, but it could be used...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 02/24/2012
Control Search Indexing (Crawling) Within a Page with Noindex
SharePoint provides the ability to control search indexing (a.k.a. “crawling”) within a page by...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 06/07/2010
Using Session State in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 uses two services related to session state that have similar names but are separate...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/27/2010
Backup/Restore for SharePoint 2010
This is an overview of major tools and techniques available to backup/restore your SharePoint 2010...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/27/2010
Health Monitoring for SharePoint 2010
This is an overview of major tools and techniques available to monitor the health of your SharePoint...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/27/2010
The Site Directory
What happened to the Site Directory template in SharePoint 2010? This feature was deprecated...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/26/2010
SharePoint 2010 SDK
The SDK (Software Development Kit) for SharePoint 2010 RTM’d slightly after the product itself and...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/26/2010
Hands-On SharePoint 2010
Some great resources are available for you to get hands-on tutorials and demo environments for...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/25/2010
SharePoint 2010 List and Library Size
Great news about increased list capacities for SharePoint 2010: Max recommended SharePoint 2010 list...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/25/2010
SharePoint 2010 Content Database Size
Great news about increased storage capacities for SharePoint 2010: Max recommended SharePoint 2010...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/25/2010
SharePoint 2010
After a long hiatus from blogging about MOSS 2007, I plan to begin again; now entries will focus on...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/04/2010
Debugging web parts and other SharePoint custom code
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Here are some tips for...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 09/09/2008
List of MOSS Timer Jobs
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. MOSS has many default timer...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 09/06/2008
Consolidated list of MOSS items
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Sometimes you just need a list...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 09/06/2008
MOSS Usage Reports explained
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The site usage reports that...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 09/06/2008
Colleagues, Social Distance & Relevance in People Search; Social Networking tools
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. MOSS provides some very...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/01/2008
Scaling My Sites; How Many My Sites per Content DB?
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. I've worked with several...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 04/14/2008
Modifying My Site Owner Security
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. When someone creates a MySite,...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 04/10/2008
New Design and Build Guide for MOSS 2007
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This is a topic near and dear...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 03/12/2008
Test With Correct Privileges
When developing web parts and other components with code, it's important to remember that operations...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 03/06/2008
Virtual PC and Virtual Server
Wait.. A posting not about SharePoint? How can this be? Well, it's somewhat related to SharePoint,...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 03/04/2008
Using Reflector to See SharePoint's "Source" Code
Important Note: Customers are advised to review the end user license agreement (EULA) for the...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 02/28/2008
My Site Pages and Architecture
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. MySites are very interesting...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 02/22/2008
SharePoint 2007 Permissions Matrix
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Many times it helps to see an...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 02/14/2008
VSeWSS 1.1 Now Available!
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. So, I'm not one to just post...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 02/13/2008
Searching Resource (resx) files
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Often, a request comes to...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 01/25/2008
SharePoint Lists as DataTables
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. You may know that SPList can...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 01/25/2008
Master Page stsadm commands
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Have you ever wanted to use...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 01/24/2008
Trial Period [Evaluation Period] for this product has expired
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. I was still getting this error...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 11/08/2007
Self Service Site Creation
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. By default, in Microsoft...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 11/08/2007
Scripting STSADM commands
This posting contains tips 'n tricks for using STSADM commands within batch files. Note, the primary...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 11/08/2007
Where is My Picture stored? What if My Sites are off?
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010....
Author: Mark Arend Date: 11/08/2007
XSL Tips
When writing XSL, it is often desirable to be able to see the raw XML that you're trying to...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 11/08/2007
MOSS as front end to other storage systems
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. I've been asked several times...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 07/11/2007
MOSS Search UI Architecture - Introduction
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. To modify SharePoint’s...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 07/06/2007
MOSS Search Query Syntax - Keyword, SQL and URL
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. MOSS 2007's search engine...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 07/06/2007
CKS: Enhanced Wiki Edition... alpha release!
I'm proud to announce that the Enhanced Wiki Edition of Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) just had...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 06/19/2007
Parsing multi-value fields - MultiChoice, Lookup, User, URL. Rules for the ";#" delimiter.
For certain types of columns (aka fields), SharePoint stores several values in one field, using a...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/29/2007
Visual Studio Extensions (VSe) Deploy Failed (for SharePoint Solution)
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. When using Visual Studio 2005...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 05/16/2007
Managing My Site Creation and Usage
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Permissions may be tailored to...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 04/26/2007
Configuring Users across Site Collections
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. SharePoint provides tools for...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 04/26/2007
Configuring Administrators across MOSS Farms and Sites
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. I assembled the following...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 04/26/2007
Search Results Page may be different per Search Scope
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Microsoft Office SharePoint...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 01/24/2007
SPSchedule.FromString(recurrenceValue) - syntax/format for recurrence value
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The SPSchedule class allows...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 01/16/2007
CAML Query for Publishing Pages
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The "Scheduling Start Date"...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 01/02/2007
Web part comparison: SPS 2003 & WSS v2 --> MOSS 2007 & WSS v3
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Web parts shown in Gray were...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 12/08/2006
Workaround for broken search controls in B2TR
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Since upgrading from B2 to...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 10/13/2006
Searching with Property Filters
This blog posting applies to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. SharePoint can search for...
Author: Mark Arend Date: 10/10/2006