Sharepoint 2010 Architecture Planning (Trailer Video)

SharePoint Sessions in MS Days 2011

Next week (30-31.03.2011) we’ll open the 10th issue of Microsoft Days in Bulgaria. There is a dedicated SharePoint track during the second day, with the following sessions:

Time slot	Session	Speaker	Hall
9:15 – 10:15	SharePoint 2010: Practical Architecture Planning from the Field	Tihomir Ignatov	Hall 5
10:45 – 11:45	SharePoint 2010: Authentication and Authorization Smackdown	Radi Atanassov	Hall 5
12:45 – 13:45	The Search Story at SharePoint 2010	Tihomir Ignatov	Hall 5
14:15 – 15:15	Connecting Two Clouds – Sharepoint Online in Office 365 and Windows Azure	Damien Caro	Hall 5
14:15 – 15:15	Case Study: Там където SharePoint, BI & Silverlight се срещаха с бизнеса!	Rossen Zhivkov	VIP Hall
15:45 – 16:45	Schema-Based Development with SharePoint 2010	Radi Atanassov	Hall 5
15:45 - 16:45	SharePoint in the Cloud – Developing Solutions for SharePoint Online	Branimir Gyurov	Hall 7

Other SharePoint and Cloud related sessions in the first day:

• Microsoft Office 365 – What does it means for IT Pros?
• Case Study: Buildning a Centralized Knowledge Management system on the top of SharePoint 2010
• Social Networking in the Enterprise: Delivering Facebook-like experience with SharePoint 2010 & Going Mobile

Enjoy!

Sharepoint 2010 Automated Deployment

I tested http://autospinstaller.codeplex.com/ for the needs of my projects and it is very useful tool. Well developed PowerShell application with configuration options. You only need to attach the SPS 2010 media (iso) and start the script.

Sharepoint 2010: Fixing the Flyout Delay

When rolling over a number of flyouts quickly, the user sees all the flyouts shown on the screen at once which looks rubbish. 

To remove the delay altogether use this css in your page somewhere:

li.hover-off>ul

{ display:none; }

Sharepoint 2010 Capacity Planning and Sizing Tool

In the last few months I had a few projects where I had to plan the capacity of SharePoint Server 2010 farms. There are some very useful resources in Technet:
Capacity management and sizing for SharePoint Server 2010
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261700(office.14).aspx
Storage and SQL Server capacity planning and configuration (SharePoint Server 2010)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801(office.14).aspx
Actually the second article was my starting point for this blog post. The question was – how to size the storage for Sharepoint Server 2010 HA environment? I created an Excel sheet which implemented all rules and advises, mentioned in the resources above. You could download and use it for your projects and of course feel free to customize it. I’ll be very thankful if someone decide to contribute and extend the existing content!

Open it directly from SkyDrive: Sharepoint 2010 capacity planning and sizing sheet

Tool Reference
The idea behind this tool is that for each Sharepoint Server 2010 deployment stays a particular business need. Almost always we have a content, which has to be uploaded after deployment and this is our initial data. This data always grows and our sizing and capacity planning approach has to cover this important factor.
General Sites Sizing Sheet

Enter in this section your initial files count and volume in GB

Decide how many initial sites you will have in the farm (one row for each) and divide your initial files between them – as count and as volume.

Define a growth model for each site collection for the next 1 year using the tables. The final size (colored cell) will be auto populated in the above table.
You could find a detailed description of the used formula in Technet
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801.aspx

Cell B26 formula: =(B19*B21*B23)+(10*(B22+(B23*B19)))
You can always see the formula details for particular cell from Ribbon/Formulas tab/Formula Auditing group (Excel 2010)

Capacity Sheet
Use the screen shots below, Formula Auditing tools and Formulas in the Excel file to understand the logic of the calculations.

SUGBG and Telerik

On 24 November we did a SUGBG meeting together with Telerik, They presented the integration of their AJAX, Silverlight and Reporting with Sharepoint 2010. It was a great session with a lot of questions, discussions and feedback. Thanks guys!

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Troubleshooting User Profile Service

Wow, it it amazing troubleshooting experience. Did you get your User Profile Service (Sharepoint 2010) working without issues?

if (upsWorking)

{Console.WriteLine(“You are lucky man”);}

So, some useful resources, thanks to Stefan for share!

Probably the best guides are here (thanks to Spence)

Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization

“Stuck on Starting”: Common Issues with SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization

On third place I’ll put the Technet article

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx

Good luck with UPS!

How to Use Metadata Navigation in Enterprise Wiki Site (Sharepoint 2010)

If you want to use Metadata navigation tree in Enterprise Wiki Site, you have to do the following:

• Activate Metadata Navigation and Filtering feature on site level

• Navigate to Library settings page of your “Pages” library and select Metadata navigation settings
• From “Configure Navigation Hierarchies” select “Wiki Categories” and click “Add” and “OK”

• Navigate to Pages library again

http://<Your Wiki Site Url>/Pages/Forms/AllItems.aspx

But when you click on any of the pages on the right panel, the navigation tree will disappear. 

You have to change the EnterpriseWiki.aspx page layout or better to create and deploy a new one (via Sharepoint Designer or wsp)

You have to include a reference to MetadataNavTree control and put it in some placeholder (PlaceHolderLeftActions) on the page layout aspx file.

• Put this markup in the beginning of the page

<%@ Register TagPrefix="wssuc" TagName="MetadataNavTree" src="~/_controltemplates/MetadataNavTree.ascx" %>

• Put this code in the end of page’s code, after the next </asp:Content> tag

<asp:Content id="Content1" runat="server" contentplaceholderid="PlaceHolderLeftActions">

<wssuc:MetadataNavTree id="mdnt" runat="server" />

</asp:Content>

The result is: