SharePoint Escalation Services Team Blog
Moss 2007/2010: Current Storage Used by a site collection does not match Actual storage in Content DB.
MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010 keep a record of the total storage consumed by each Site collection;...
Author: Spses Date: 10/10/2012
SharePoint 2007: SSP upgrade issue with SP3
The Office Server Search gatherer crawled documents in batches. It creates a batch ID each...
Author: Spses Date: 09/30/2012
SharePoint 2010: Issues with Service Application Proxy & Proxy Group Associations
At times we would see errors while accessing various Service applications. These types...
Author: Spses Date: 08/29/2012
CRL verification Failure –SharePoint
Couple of weeks back, I had a chance to work with one of the customer who reported multiple...
Author: Spses Date: 08/28/2012
Blob Cache in SharePoint
1.What is Blob Cache? Disk-based Caching for Binary Large Objects Disk-based caching controls...
Author: Spses Date: 08/28/2012
All you want to know about People Picker in SharePoint ( Functionality | Configuration | Troubleshooting ) Part-2
The Part 1 of this series talks about how People Picker works under the default configuration . In...
Author: Spses Date: 07/18/2012
All you want to know about People Picker in SharePoint ( Functionality | Configuration | Troubleshooting ) Part-1
The people-picker is a SharePoint interface responsible for querying repositories for...
Author: Spses Date: 07/18/2012
MOSS list library lookup column drop down - performance issue with IE7
You may experience performance issue on a SharePoint 2007 site page where it has sharepoint list...
Author: Spses Date: 07/18/2012
Why do you see VSS errors when you configure SharePoint 2010 Search in least privileged mode
The information here resulted out of an engagement with one of our customers and we felt it was...
Author: Spses Date: 05/17/2012
Managed Metadata, Taxonomy & More
One of the most talked about capabilities since the launch of SharePoint 2010 is the Managed...
Author: Spses Date: 11/28/2011
SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - Steps to Partition the User Profiles Service Application
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Pre-requisite: These are few steps to be done prior to...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - You receive an error - "An unexpected error has occurred." when you try to browse to the page to Manage a newly created User Profile Service Application
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang You create a new User Profile Service Application...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
SharePoint 2010: User Profiles - Upgrade consideration
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization has undergone...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
How to configure a Dedicated Web Front End for crawling in SharePoint 2010
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Applies to SharePoint 2010 In SharePoint 2007 (MOSS v3) we...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
MOSS 2007: Creation of Content Deployment Path on Windows 2008 fails with Access Denied
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Applies to SharePoint 2007 I had installed Microsoft Office...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
Incremental Content Deployment completes with a Warning message “ User or group with ID “X” cannot be resolved.
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Applies to SharePoint 2007 While running content deployment...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
Incremental Content Deployment Errors out with "Save Conflict" when deploying User information without Security information
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Applies to SharePoint 2007 While running content deployment...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
Changes to the custom dictionary.txt file are not taking effect
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang You might face a peculiar problem when you implement the...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
Change the application pool associated with a web application in SharePoint.
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Recently I researched on case where the SharePoint Service...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
PowerShell script to list all User Profiles in an SSP
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang I had few thousand user profiles in my SharePoint 2007 SSP...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
PowerShell script to delete all items in a List
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Sample script to delete all items from a List in SharePoint...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
PowerShell script to remove all users from a SharePoint Group
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang There have been many instances where we find users...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
Import of a variation site fails with "An error occurred while parsing EntityName"
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang Worked on an interesting case the other day. The customer...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
Users do not see then 'View by Social Distance' link in the people results page in Search Center
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang When you do a people search on SharePoint, you see...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
Colleague tracker Web Part on the MySite does not display data!
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang If you apply the Obsidian Theme to your MySite, the...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
Troubleshooting issues with SharePoint crawling Forms based Authenticated sites.
Moved from https://blogs.msdn.com/vijgang What this blog describes is the steps you need to...
Author: Spses Date: 11/09/2011
Database Maintenance and SharePoint 2010
The whitepaper on database maintenance for SharePoint 2010 databases was re-published yesterday....
Author: Spses Date: 07/21/2011
SharePoint and SQL Server’s Error 8628
Hello! Michael Garstin here. I’m one of the newest members of the SharePoint Escalation Team. I came...
Author: Spses Date: 07/19/2011
Exporting SharePoint 2010 Search Crawl logs
In SharePoint 2007 we provided an object model way of accessing the SharePoint crawl logs. We have a...
Author: Spses Date: 06/21/2011
SharePoint 2010 Profile Sync - Inability to import users based on group membership
As more customers adopt SharePoint 2010 and implement the various features etc, one thing...
Author: Spses Date: 05/31/2011
SharePoint 2010 Search
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 delivers powerful intranet and people search, right out of...
Author: Spses Date: 05/27/2011
Social Computing: Part 4 : Colleagues, Membership and more…..
There are three different ways to get colleagues added into your profile. 1. AD profile...
Author: Spses Date: 02/05/2011
Social Computing: Part 3 : Activity Feeds, Social Ratings, Tags and Notes.
Activity Feeds Activity Feeds are an ongoing record of a user’s activities through the day (or for...
Author: Spses Date: 02/05/2011
Social Computing : Part 2: User Profile Application Overview
Note: Support for changes to the databases that are used by Office server products and by Windows...
Author: Spses Date: 12/23/2010
Social computing: Part 1: Overview
Note: Support for changes to the databases that are used by Office server products and by Windows...
Author: Spses Date: 12/23/2010
UPA 2010 : Setting up the User Profile Service Application – Part2
In the first part of our document on User Profile Service Application we talked about various...
Author: Spses Date: 12/01/2010
UPA 2010 : Intro – Part1
Introduction This document focuses on internals of User Profile Service application, where we have...
Author: Spses Date: 11/27/2010
Installation And Configuration Of FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010
This article describes how to install and configure Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint...
Author: Spses Date: 04/09/2010
SharePoint Patches With Links To KB Articles -Part 1
A consolidated page to track all SharePoint hotfixes with links to download the same is always...
Author: Spses Date: 04/07/2010
SharePoint Patches With Links To KB Articles -Part 2
Let’s look at Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 & SharePoint 2003 major patch releases WSS 2.0...
Author: Spses Date: 04/07/2010
SharePoint 2010 – Provisioning User Profile Synchronization
This blog is intended to quickly ramp up the reader on requirements and steps to successfully...
Author: Spses Date: 04/01/2010
Moss 2007 | User Profiles | Part 2
Importing & processing data in SQL Server Tables To completely understand the next phase of...
Author: Spses Date: 03/25/2010
Moss 2007 | User Profiles | Part 1
User Profiles – The Idea BehindA user profile is a record in the profile database that contains...
Author: Spses Date: 03/25/2010
SharePoint 2010 Logging Improvements – Part 2 (Introducing Developer Dashboard)
Developer Dashboard is a powerful troubleshooting tool which will enable engineers to perform...
Author: Spses Date: 03/11/2010
MOSS 2007 | Search Query Mechanism | Part 1
This blog is “Part One” of the upcoming series of blogs that would describe the high level...
Author: Spses Date: 03/02/2010
SharePoint 2010 Shared Service Architecture Part 1
This blog is to provide a quick ramp up on SharePoint 2010’s new Shared Service Architecture. Some...
Author: Spses Date: 01/20/2010
SharePoint 2010 Logging Improvements – Part 1
Part 1 of this blog will describe ULS and Event log improvements and what you need to know. The new...
Author: Spses Date: 12/17/2009
PowerShell Intro for SharePoint Administrators - Part 2
PowerShell has a rich set of advanced features that provide an Administrator with a multitude of...
Author: Spses Date: 12/17/2009
PowerShell Intro for SharePoint Administrators - Part 1
PowerShell has been nicely integrated into SharePoint 2010 and is the eventual replacement of...
Author: Spses Date: 12/17/2009