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Debugging an Explorer View issue

Debugging an Explorer View issue

During a recent SharePoint 2010 upgrade project, we applied SP1 and DEC 2012 CU & encountered a frustrating issue. Everything in the farm was working as expected after we did the installation & ran PSCONFIG, except for an issue where some users could not use Explorer View to open some Document Libraries. More detailed user testing revealed that the issue only occurred for user who were using computers running Windows Vista or later. Windows XP users could open in explorer…

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SQL Server 2012 SP1 is here & it’s huge for SharePoint 2013 BI

SQL Server 2012 SP1 is here & it’s huge for SharePoint 2013 BI

This is a massive deal for SharePoint 2013 BI.  Here is an excerpt from What’s New in SQL Server 2012: “Business Intelligence highlights (with SQL Server 2012 SP1, Office and SharePoint Server 2013 ) Business Intelligence highlights (with SQL Server SP1, Office and SharePoint Server 2013 Preview) are: Enable self-service BI as a natural part of users day-to-day activities in Excel 2013: Access and mash-up data from any source (PowerPivot). Documentation related to PowerPivot in Excel 2013 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=255958). Stunning visualizations…

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Review of the new storage “guidance” for SharePoint 2010 SP1

Review of the new storage “guidance” for SharePoint 2010 SP1

Rob D’Oria, father of StoragePoint, has written a very comprehensive review of the new storage “guidance” from Microsoft with regard to the limits on ContentDB size when using RBSEBS.  It is a very long post, but completely worth reading from start to finish.  For a peak at what you can expect, here is a direct excerpt from one of my favorite sections: Everyone hold on, here’s the super-hard backup/restore process you have to follow in this brave new world: Backup…

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The big news: Data Storage Changes for SharePoint 2010

The big news: Data Storage Changes for SharePoint 2010

I go on vacation for one week and they try to change the entire strategy on us, eh?  When I first started hearing rumbles about the changes announced by the Microsoft SharePoint Product Group via their blog it sounded like the world was completely changed and that all previously known storage strategies can be thrown out the window in favor of using RBS and storing whatever you want in the Content DB! Happily that is not at all what was…

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Office Web Apps Service Pack 1 is here!

Office Web Apps Service Pack 1 is here!

It has almost gone overlooked, but Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 are not the only products to get a Service Pack 1 release today.  I know that the Office Web Apps are a bolt on to SharePoint 2010 and so they don’t get a whole lot of attention, but from an end user feature enhancement perspective, I am almost more excited about the Office Web Apps SP1 than anything else released today (Office 365 not withstanding). Sourced directly from Microsoft’s…

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SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is here!

SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 is here!

Today Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 which is a rollup of all previous Cumulative Updates through April 2011, which means that deploying directly on top of RTM bits supported, as well as number of stability, performance, and security enhancements based upon customer feedback.  There is a detailed white paper that about the Service Pack that can be found at this location.​ ​ CAVEAT: Microsoft strongly recommends installing the June 2011 Cumulative Update immediately after the installation of…

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