SharePoint and Office are now available via MSDN subscription: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/subscriptions/subscription-downloads.rss Update: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (English) Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 (32-bit) Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 (64-bit)

Maybe you’ve already set up a core server. Or you are thinking about it. Anyway. An overview of the available features for each version of Windows Server 2008 R2 can be found here: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sanderberkouwer/archive/2010/02/03/server-core-roles-and-features-in-2008-r2.aspx The table below shows the individual roles and features in fresh Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 R2, Web (column 1), Standard (column 2), Enterprise (column 3) and Datacenter (column 4) edition. It also lists the Server Roles features in a fresh installation of the special-purpose Hyper-V server 2008 R2.

As you can read on the SharePoint Team Blog, SharePoint 2010 has reached RTM status. There is word about availability on MSDN. Our Volume License customers with active Software Assurance (SA) on these products will be one of the first to receive the 2010 set of products. They will be able to download the product in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Dutch via the Volume Licensing Service Center starting April 27.

A quick test shows that the just released Visual Studio 2010 works on my SP 2010 Beta 2 VM. I could open a project, hit F5 to deploy it and debug successfully.

What is a large list? What might be the problem if I store 1 million documents in a document library? Is there an improvement from WSS 3 to SharePoint Foundation? If you want answers to the questions, take a look at a great post at the “Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog”. A summary to the problem: Any time you ask for content from SharePoint, you have to specify how it’s sorted – for example, the All Documents view in SharePoint 2007 asks for the top 100 results, sorted by filename.

Am 13. April werden wir uns wieder um 18h in Paderborn treffen. (Net at Work Netzwerksysteme GmbH, Am Hoppenhof 32, Anfahrtsbeschreibung). Als Thema ist ein Erfahrungsbereicht über die Migration von Lotus Domino/Notes nach SharePoint 2007 hören. Vielen Dank schon einmal an Campus Consult. Wir bitten um eine kurze Anmeldung per Email an ug-owl ( at ) mysharepoint ( . ) de. Am 12. Mai ist SharePoint 2010 release Termin. Zum weltweiten Launch der neuen SharePoint-Suite hat sich die SharePointCommunity etwas Besonderes überlegt.

Every time I suspend a VM on my VMWare Workstation, there is a long running disk activity on the associated vmem file. This file is a copy of the virtual machines pagefile running on the host instead of the guest. Suspending a VM shows a progress bar, which is pretty fast. But even a long time (minutes) after it has vanished, the disk activity still continues. The setting mainMem.useNamedFile = “FALSE” will configure VMWare to use the host paging file instead of a vmem file.

A Webpart receives a filter value through the IWebPartField interface. The example over at MSDN was simple and clean. So I adopted the code to my Webpart. A common scenario would be to create controls based on the received filter value. E.g. query a list for the passed filter value, and display the item from the query. Problem From the ASP.NET Lifecycle we know how to deal with controls. Create them in CreateChildControls, assign values in OnPreRender and let them being rendered in RenderContents.

Solutions which were developed for SharePoint Services V3 will most likely continue to work if you use them in a SharePoint Foundation environment. But how do you find out which version your are dealing with? This is a question which might be important if you use V3 CSS elements which are not available under SharePoint Foundation. The SharePoint version can be found from from the SPFarm.Local.BuildVersion property. For SharePoint V3 you’ll need permissions to access the configuration database to read the local farm.

Developing a Windows Service is a common task. Creating an EventLog for this service also is a common practice. The EventLog can be created with a ServiceInstaller (a class which inherits from System.Configuration.Install.Installer). This is how an Eventlog can be added during the installation with a custom Installer class: public Installer() { Installers.Add(new EventLogInstaller { Source = "EventLogSource", Log = "EventLogName" }); The EventLogInstaller class does not allow to set the overwrite mode.

2010? Which 2010? Office and SharePoint. They will reach RTM status in April. Availability is May 12th and June for “regular customers”. http://www.microsoft.de/2010launch Source: RTM- und Launch-Termin, Technologiegarantie

Crawling PDF files can be a long running process with the Adobe PDF iFilter. We already knew that. Jie Li compared 3 iFilters for indexing PDF files. To make it short, the Adobe iFilter takes roughly about 33 times the time compared to the Foxit iFilter 2 on that particular server. See all details…

Depending on the configuration of you databases, the log files (*.ldf) can be very large. See Selecting a Recovery Model. Should I continue reading? If your databases are configured to use the FULL recovery model, the log files are very large and you need some free space, you can use this SQL script to shrink them. So keep on reading 🙂 The script will change the recovery model for a single database to SIMPLE and shrink the log files.

Recently I wanted to copy a subweb to a new site collection, so it will there be the rootweb. How can the web be moved? stsadm export is your friend. At least I thought… Error: Specified cast is not valid. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetFileAsByteArray(String bstrUrl, String bstrWebRelativeUrl, Boolean bHonorLevel, Byte iLevel, OpenBinaryFlags grfob) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetFileAsByteArray(String bstrUrl,String bstrWebRelativeUrl, Boolean bHonorLevel, Byte iLevel, OpenBinaryFlags grfob) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.AttachmentsSerializer.GetDataFromDataSet(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context) FatalError: Specified cast is not valid.

Problem: Even if you configure your SharePoint site as Intranet in the Internet Explorer, you will be prompted for user credentials when you open an Office document with Office 2007. This is true, if you haven’t configured a proxy in your browser, access your SharePoint site with a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) and you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7. Cause: (Quote from the KB aticle below) In Windows Vista, Internet Explorer uses the Web Client service when you use Internet Explorer to access a WebDAV resource.