Wondering mind
The thoughts of a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer on anything and everything SharePoint.
SharePoint Tidbit - New ULSViewer released by Microsoft
Hello All, Microsoft has released a new version of ULSViewer to help you with all your...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/04/2014
Exposing SharePoint to the Internet
Hey Guys, This is a very high level view of how to expose SharePoint to the internet. Methods: Place...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/11/2014
SharePoint Tidbit - Creating custom Templates in PAL
Hello All, In continuing with the last tidbit I wrote I want to bring your attention to another...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 07/10/2014
SharePoint Tidbit - Using PAL to help collect Performance data
Hello All, If you do not realize yet I love PAL, I think it is a fantastic tool that really helps...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 06/30/2014
SharePoint Tidbits - SharePoint 2013 Distributed Cache Service
Hello All, Today I did some work with one of my customers around the distributed cache, and just...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 02/13/2014
What can I do about the deadlocks?
Hello All, Since I seem to be discussing this all the time, I thought I would put it in writing for...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 02/06/2014
Being published on Hey Scripting Guy
Hello All, I am being published on Hey Scripting Guy blog, with a really cool script that I created...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/22/2013
Mobile access in SharePoint 2013
Hello All, The mobile experience has greatly improved in SharePoint 2013 versus previous versions....
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/31/2013
Stretched farm and Database replication with SharePoint 2013
Hello All, Recently had a conversation with a customer about how SharePoint 2013 works within a...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/24/2013
Error: “The workbook cannot be opened" when opening Excel Workbook in browser
Hello All, I was recently working with a customer on an issue with SharePoint 2010 Excel Services,...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/18/2013
SharePoint Tidbit - Bringing the data to the user
Hello All,, Being able to bring relevant data to the users is more important than ever in this...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 06/05/2013
SharePoint Tidbits - SharePoint 2013 Friendly Url's
Hello All, So raise your hand if you have been sitting there starring at the SharePoint url once you...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 06/04/2013
SharePoint Tidbit - Host Named Site Collections are alive and well
Hello All, Catching up on my blog reading and when I saw this blog by Kirk Evans on Host named site...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 06/04/2013
SharePoint Tidbits - SharePoint 2013 Display Template
Hello All, In SharePoint 2013 the product group has worked really hard to change the way we consume...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/30/2013
SharePoint Tidbits - Microsoft lab environments
Hello All, Recently while teaching a workshop to a group of Power Users I was asked how could...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/29/2013
SharePoint Tidbits - Table/Database locks - Best Practices
Hello All, If we look at the previous posting about the causes of locks there are some published...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/21/2013
SharePoint Tidbits - Table/Database locks - What causes these locks
Hello All, Depending on which database and table we are locking on there several possible causes,...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/16/2013
SharePoint Tidbits - Table/Database locks - Troubleshooting steps
Hello All, I don't have all the answers but what we can do is get you started down the correct route...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/14/2013
SharePoint Tidbit - Keeping SharePoint 2013 up to date
Hello All, I just wanted to let you know that the Product Group has released an update that must be...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 05/08/2013
SharePoint Tidbit - Creating a more intuitive web site
Hello All, Something that I think will help you with creating a more dynamic web site in SharePoint...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 02/25/2013
A cool site for end user info on SharePoint
Hello All, I just had this web site pointed out to me when I was discussing end user education and...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/30/2013
SharePoint Tidbit - Let's talk about Caching - Part 2
Hello All, I had written a tidbit about Caching and one of my customers had some questions and I...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/30/2013
SharePoint Tidbit - Let's talk about Caching
Hello All, As the SharePoint environment in your Enterprise matures it is time to move from looking...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/25/2013
Please check your SharePoint on Windows 2008 R2 systems for this issue
Hello All, There has been an issue discovered if you have Windows 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010, and...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/24/2013
SharePoint Tidbit - Upgrading to SharePoint 2013
Hello All, I have been hearing the buzz of upgrades more and more lately so I thought I would...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/23/2013
SharePoint Tidbit - Error in SharePoint Management Shell
Hello All, It’s been a while since I wrote up a SharePoint Tidbit, but I thought I had the...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/10/2013
How long does it take?
Hello All, Recently working with a customer we needed to figure out how long it would take to...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/08/2013
The lost rule
Hello All, Recently I was working with one of my customers they had setup Web Analytics in...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 01/03/2013
Time to look at Records Management
Definition of Records Management The ISO 15489-1: 2001 standard ("ISO 15489-1:2001") defines records...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/27/2012
Merry Christmas
Thank you all for following me or just stumbling across me, hope you have a fun and Safe Christmas
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/25/2012
Creating custom profile properties in MOSS 2007
Customer was going to create a custom SharePoint property to import info from Active Directory but...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/18/2012
Uploading pictures from SharePoint to Active Directory attribute thumbnailPhoto
My customer recently had some issues exporting Picture from SharePoint My Site to Active Directory...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/12/2012
Error about corrupted Installation database...what does it mean?
Hello All, I have noticed recently that I have had some several customers all with the same issue,...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 12/06/2012
Change Password for Service account in SharePoint
Recently had a customer ask me about how to do this so wrote this little article and thought I would...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/29/2012
Error exporting picture from UPA to Active Directory
While trying to export the picture from SharePoint My Sites to the Active Directory attribute...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/27/2012
Thoughts on Web Analytics in SharePoint 2010 - Part 2
So continuing down the road of Web Analytics see my Previous post Thought on Web Analytics in...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/22/2012
Thoughts on Web Analytics in SharePoint 2010 - Part 1
Web Analytics data collection is actually driven by the Usage and Health service, and then it mines...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/15/2012
Presence Awareness in SharePoint
Hello All, In case you don’t realize the way this works is a web part or page that contains...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/09/2012
SharePoint Tidbit - SharePoint 2013 Device Channels
Hello All, As promised I’m doing a series of SharePoint Tidbits on things I have learned about...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 11/02/2012
SharePoint, Yammer, and MicroBlogging in the Enterprise
Hello All, I was recently asked about Yammer and SharePoint integration by a customer and I got some...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/31/2012
So I have increased MaxConcurrentAPI for my SharePoint servers, now what?
Recently did some digging for a customer and here are some of the questions and answers that I came...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/29/2012
SharePoint Tidbit - SharePoint and Claims
Hello All, Claims has truly found its way into this product, it is becoming the defacto method for...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/26/2012
SharePoint Tidbit - Debugging tools for the toolbox
Hello All, I’m always looking for ways to make debugging easier…because I’m not...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/25/2012
SharePoint Tidbit - SharePoint 2013 Design Manager
Hello All, Not sure how many of you have looked at SPD recently or have designers who design pages...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/19/2012
SharePoint Tidbit - Useful articles for SharePoint
Hello All, I was creating a list of articles for a customer and thought I would share them with you...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/16/2012
Need to setup Kerberos in my production farm
Hello All, It seems every time that I have a customer who wants to setup Kerberos, it is into a farm...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/04/2012
SharePoint Tidbit - Great learning resources for SharePoint 2013
Hello All, Critical Path is providing some great seminars on SharePoint 2013, they are calling it...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 10/02/2012
SharePoint Tidbit - Using PowerShell to build your sites
Hello All, Found this amazing article about building your sites and thought this was perfect, as it...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/28/2012
I want to move to Least-Privilege, but my farm is already in Production. What do I do?
Hello All, Not sure how often others see this, but I seem to hit this question all the time. I...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/24/2012
But I ran Set-Executionpolicy unrestricted, what is going on?
Hello All, So first let's be clear, if you can run with a properly set execution policy using only...
Author: Chris We - MSFT Date: 09/20/2012