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We've heard from many of you who don’t work with code and underlying technical structure of the SharePoint that you want more insights into ideas, trends, and key considerations that will help you do your job better. SharePoint as a platform for solutions, improving business processes and collaboration is important to you. So to meet the needs of both our technical readers and business users we have two blogs. In the Know is our business topic blog and SharePoint Optimizer is our technical blog where you can find many solutions for technical issues.

Don’t forget to add your comments to either blog and give us your feedback, and suggest other topics and ideas to explore.

SharePoint Optimizer is our technical blog, where you will find many good resources to help solve your technical challenges. Read, comment, and challenge us to solve your SharePoint problem. Leverage our experience and solutions to help your clients succeed.

Large list performance: SPMetal vs. SPQuery

Key takeaway Use SPQuery for large lists instead of SPMetal. While testing with a list of 45K items, SPQuery performed at 0.06s compared to SPMetal’s performance at 9.98s. Background I was recentl...

SharePoint 2010 Solution Gallery "Unable to access web scoped feature"

After creating a site template based off a site. You go to the SharePoint Solutions Gallery. When you attempt to deactivate the feature you get the following error: Unable to access web scoped fea...

Windows Identity Foundation Resources

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2010/06/23/all-will-be-revealed-7-hours-recordings-from-the-wif-workshops.aspx http://www.devproconnections.com/article/federated-security/Generate-SAML-T...

An exception occurs during SP 2010 upgrade

You get an error of An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException was thrown. Additional exception information: An update conflict has occurred after runn...

Blank Open/Save Dialog when browsing Document Library from Office clients

Problem When you browse to a document library from an office client dialog such as ‘MS Word > Open’, the dialog shows a blank space instead of the document library contents- Root Cause This i...

In The Know is where you can read and participate in discussions regarding business issues. It's really about the broader world of SharePoint, and the issues and ideas that impact the way we conduct business. Feel free to comment and offer your opinions and other information to keep the discussions lively.

All I Need to Know, I learned in Kindergarten…Wait, ummm Preschool

A number of years back, the book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum became a huge hit, to be telling us we needed to simplify and live our lives by basic principles...

User Adoption Strategies for Collaboration Technology

The rapid pace of technology change and advancement adds a new dimension to adoption of new technologies. How do you drive adoption of new collaboration technology inside a business enterprise, when users are struggling to keep up with change?

Using SharePoint for Proposal Management

I spoke today at the APMP National Conference in Denver. My topic was using SharePoint for Proposal Management, and I was clearly speaking to a group hungry to learn.

Using Google Web Fonts in SharePoint

For years I'd wished for an easy way to use non-standard fonts in websites without relying on images or Flash. With SharePoint, it seemed using a non-standard font may have been doable for some elements but forget about trying anything different with the main navigation (top nav) in MOSS.
Then along came web fonts, utilizing the @font-face property of CSS3. Finally, the chains can be cast off the graphic designer!

SharePoint Governance: How Much Standardization is Too Much?

SharePoint's native ability for customization is both a blessing and a curse. One of the major pain points that governance addresses is standardization. Creating a baseline for organizing and delivering information will be a huge asset, and create a strong SharePoint user base.

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