9/21/2009

SharePoint 2010 Ignite Training

SharePoint 2010 "Ignite" is a 5-day Instructor-led training program for SharePoint 2007 SI partners. This is an invitation-only event and is free of charge* for attendees.

I am glad to announce that we were invited to attend the training. This shows our commitment to Microsoft and Sharepoint technologies.

I attended the first day of training today and it was awesome. There is a lot to look forward to and I can't wait for the official beta to release at the SharePoint Conference in October, so we can all start talking about it.

More to come soon.

Nilesh Mehta

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2/5/2009

Nilesh Mehta Presenting at SharePointSaturday - Project Server 2007 Integration with MOSS 2007

SharePointSaturday team is organizing it's event in New York on February 21st 2009 at the Microsoft Office on 1290 Avenue of Americas.

It is going to be a full day of training sessions on SharePoint technologies from some of the most reputed industry experts.

Nilesh Mehta from NGenious Solutions, Inc. will be presenting a topic on integrating Project Server 2007 with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

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NYC SPUG Meeting - Mark Miller Presentation

Last night (02/04/2009) we have our monthly presentation at the NYC SharePoint User Group meeting. Mark Miller, EndUserSharePoint.com did a presentation on building dashboards with just WSS 3.0.

It was one of the best presentations that I have seen a long time. He showed us how we can use basic SharePoint web parts and some minor customizations using JavaScript to build dashboards.

It was pretty cool. Excellent Job Mark. Look forward to more presentations from you.

You can find more information about his presentation at EndUserSharePoint.com

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2/2/2009

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server Roadmap Update

Microsoft has announced the Performance Point 2007 roadmap update. This great utility from Microsoft will now be blended in to SharePoint to provide better reporting capabilities. This is a great move from Microsoft to still enhance an already awesome product - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Here is the original blurb from the Microsoft site:

The Microsoft business intelligence (BI) strategy is to use the tools found in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office Excel —and the scalable Microsoft SQL Server business intelligence platform —to deliver BI to anyone in any organization. This strategy enables customers to deploy complete BI solutions through existing investments in these three key Microsoft products.

Based on customer feedback, Microsoft has decided to consolidate Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server scorecard, dashboard, and analytical capabilities into Office SharePoint Server Enterprise as PerformancePoint Services. This consolidation will enable you to deliver capabilities to your customers at a lower total cost of ownership. You can be confident that supporting Planning customers remains a top priority for Microsoft. In mid-calendar-year 2009, Microsoft will release Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3), which will include updates to the current product’s Planning module; thereafter Microsoft will not make further investments in stand-alone versions of Office PerformancePoint Server."

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1/1/2009

NYC SharePoint User Group Meeting

You are invited to the upcoming meeting of the NYC SharePoint User Group at the Microsoft office in NYC.
The meeting will start at 5:30pm on January 7, 2009.
The meetings are held at the Microsoft office in Manhattan (1290 Avenue of the Americas at 51st Street)

Register Now!

NOTE: Due to a scheduling change we have moved up a presentation that was planned for later in the year. The new speaker information is provided below.

Nilesh Mehta will present on "MOSS 2007: Data & Database Management"

Nilesh will discuss:

· How to organize and manage web applications & content databases

· Techniques for managing/moving site collections between web applications & content databases

· SharePoint back-up & recovery options and how they relate to data management

With more than 10 years of industry experience, Mr. Mehta has an excellent track record in developing applications and being a leader in technical solutions for Microsoft technologies. As the firm's senior architect for Microsoft solutions, he has served as the SharePoint infrastructure lead for one of the world's largest pharmaceutical firms and implemented SharePoint solutions for a number of high profile organizations. He has also managed large SharePoint famrs in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific markets.
Nilesh also co-authored "SharePoint 2007 The Definitive Guide" along with some of the most recognized MVPs in the country.
You may also recognize Nilesh as one of the Founding Members of the NYC SharePoint User Group. In this role, he continues to help in evangelizing Microsoft SharePoint in the New York City metropolitan area.

Here’s the agenda for this meeting:

5:30 PM	Eat & Greet	Networking, Food & Drink	Courtesy of this month's sponsor: Quest Software
6:00 PM	The News	Breaking SharePoint & NYC SPUG News	NYC SPUG Advisors deliver latest news
6:20 PM	Tip Talk	Ideas for getting more out of SharePoint	"MOSS 2007: Data & Database Management" by Nilesh Mehta of NGenious Solutions
7:20 PM	Wrap Up	Announcements/Door Prizes	Door Prize courtesy of NGenious Solutions, Rohati Systems & IMPACT Management
7:30 PM	After Meeting Social	Continue discussions with Speakers, Sponsors & Peers	After Meeting Social hosted by: Gig-Werks

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MOSS - Large File Limits

Recently at one of our customer sites, we were running in to issues with downloading large files from MOSS Windows Explorer View. Users had been able to upload a large file to a SharePoint document library using the upload file features of a Document Library. However, when trying to download the same file using Windows Explorer view, they were getting errors. NOTE: They could still download the same file using right-click save-as option or the send to menu on a file in the document library.

Upong opening a case with Microsoft, we found that it is because during download from a Windows Explorer view, the protocol that is being used required a "Contiguous" chunk of memory that is twice the size of the file that is being downloaded. On a 32-bit OS, there is a limit of 2GB per application pool. Our application pools were always running around 700MB or so and hence after that for some reason, it was not able to find a contiguous chunk of memory that might be about 500 MB or so (Large files 200MB or more). This would cause downloads to fail.

Microsoft has mentioned this to be dependant on how the code was writtten and would possibly be fixed with the next version of SharePoint. Unfortunately, there is no immediate fix available.

The only option that they have suggested at this point is to migrate to a 64-bit OS and maybe 64-bit MOSS.

Not sure how it is going to work out, but hopefully this information helps someone.

Cheers,
Nilaish

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12/17/2008

Starting Search Service forcefully

If you ever ran into a situation where some of your SharePoint did not start properly in a timely manner, you could forcibly start the sites using the stsadm -o provisionservice command in the following manner.

stsadm -o provisionservice -action start -servicename OSearch -servicetype "Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchService,Microsoft.Office.Server.Search, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"

The -servicename is what will be key for you. You need to make sure you have a list of all service names. The ideal way to do this would be to use the following command from a fully functional server and it gives you a list of all service names

stsadm -o enumservices

cheers,

nilaish

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10/10/2008

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