SharePoint Recycle Bins – Let’s get it Crystal Clear

SharePoint Recycle bin feature was newly introduced in its 2007 version, and it offers End-users, Site collection admin’s to recover the content with out running behind DBA’s 🙂 There are some confusions among the SharePoint community in understanding recycle bin settings. So in this article lets get it crystal clear. Two Stages…

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Migrate from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010 – Step by Step

In this article, I’m walking through migrating from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 using database attachment method.  Overview Run Preupgradecheck in MOSS 2007 server.  Analyze & fix the issues. Take the back up of content database from MOSS 2007. Restore the content databases backup to SQL Server of SharePoint 2010. Create web…

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Migrating SharePoint 2007 Site/List Templates(.stp) to SharePoint 2010

Unfortunately, SharePoint 2007 site templates(.stp) can’t be used as in SharePoint 2010. Hmm… Then, what to do with the custom SharePoint 2007 Site templates? Can’t I use them in SharePoint 2010? Well, You can, Here is the workaround to Migrating MOSS 2007 Site, List Templates(.stp) to SharePoint 2010: Create a site in…

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IIS URL Rewrite Module with SharePoint

Want to get rid of “/Pages/” from SharePoint URL? Want to redirect from “HTTP” to “HTTPS”? Want to redirect from one SharePoint site to another? Then your search ends here. Use IIS URL Rewrite Module, Just a free add-on to IIS. Here are the posts on using IIS Rewrite module with SharePoint:…

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TFS Basics Tutor for End User

Introduction: Team Foundation Server is a source control, data collection, reporting, project tracking, and is intended for collaborative software development projects. This guide briefs on the basics of using TFS. 1.0 Pre-Requisites 2.0 Setting up Team Foundation Server for the first time 3.0 Adding New Files to TFS 4.0 Committing changes to…

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Configure Access Requests in SharePoint 2010/2007

Configure/Enable-Disable Access Requests in SharePoint Access Request feature enables users to request access to a site directly through SharePoint when they get an access denied page. By default SharePoint configures the access requests for a particular site collection to go to the person who created it. This configuration is for the entire…

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SharePoint 2010 Database Naming Conventions

SharePoint 2010 Database Naming Standards/Conventions When it comes to SharePoint database naming standards, There are lot of patterns used by SharePoint Admins. Yes, it is a good practice to have a database naming convention. Not only just a good practice, but it will be good for your DBAs as well :-). and…

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