As we move into the land of Office365 and SharePoint in the cloud, time to look at the key areas of Administration available to site collections. It’s very important for existing SharePoint Administrators working in SharePoint 2010 in server land to understand these areas. Working on SharePoint 2010 in the cloud presents not different, but new possibilities and management potentials.
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So working with a user on Office 365 SharePoint and looking at uploading several folders of information to a document library.
Creating the document library, yep thats fine. Tried to create a folder? Oooo… There’s no New Folder option. Ok, lets try Windows Explorer View then… Oooo… No Windows Explorer View.
Agh… How to we upload the folders then?
Step in SharePoint Workspace 2010!
Here’s the solution.
Fire up SharePoint Workspace 2010, go NEW and create a new connection to your Office 365 SharePoint site.
Sync up.
Now drag the folders into the relevant document library.
Sync Up again – aha ! Problem solved.
Back from a long haul writing the 2nd book – Whew! Back to the articles. With the large amount of training resources out there, this is my take on the different types of training I’ve seen so far, along with some places and the reasoning behind the training provision. If you can think of more examples of good training delivery for SharePoint please let me know. Note that this article does not sell or advocate any of the training providers or resources – rather, you are advised to build a strategy based on some of the principles in the article. Happy Reading!
An Update also, a PDF download of the same article is on the Institute of Analysts and Programmers website here:
http://www.iap.org.uk/main/geoff-evelyn-on-sharepoint-training/
Even though I focus on SharePoint, thats not all ! I have over 20 years experience in software development, covering CTI, Client Server, Single Tier, Multi, Web based and more. We follow the development life cycle which marries practical software design principles with SSADM.
This is a list of all the SharePoint 2010 Service applications, and is presented as one of the appendices to my book Managing and Implementing SharePoint 2010 Projects. For each of the services I describe the functionality and the purpose of the Service. I’ve also included links to articles which I found very useful since some of these are quite complex in configuring and more importantly the people who put the articles together have much much more experience in configuring these service applications than I have!!!
Had some fun with the Productivity Hub for SharePoint 2010 today…
Now, for those who don’t know about the Productivity Hub, go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=7122
The Hub gets installed into a Site Collection.
So, after downloading then unpacking the Hub, and attempting to run the Powershell command to install the following error message appeared:
Restore-SPSite failed with: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Your backup is from a different version of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version ‘14.0.0.4762’ or later and cannot be restored to a server running the current version. The backup file should be restored to a server with version ‘14.0.0.4762’ or later.
Looking at the install.ps1 file I noticed this:
LogMessage(“Restoring the Productivity Hub 2010 backup to ” + $targetUrl)
Restore-SPSite -Identity $targetUrl -Path $backupFileName -Force -Confirm:$false -ErrorAction Stop
# Restore-SPSite -Identity $targetUrl -Path $backupFileName -Force # remove Confirm switch to see restore debug info
return $true
Ah, so the productivity hub was trying to do a restore. Seems that the download was created for the original version of SharePoint – not Service Pack 1.
So, how to install? Try this workaround.
Ok, so is dirty, but it works! Am in the process of finding out from MS when the productivity.bak file will be upgraded to reflect service pack 1.
Update: 01/08/2011 : 19:00 BST. Got a reply from MS and have been advised they are aware of this issue and there will be a communication going out over the summer.
Update: 18/03/2013: 21:00 BST. There is a Service Pack 1 version available on this link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28178
When implementing SharePoint in an organization, its not just about dropping SharePoint on a server and saying to the client ‘There you go!’. This introduction to SharePoint Project Planning gives 10 useful steps to ensuring a successful SharePoint implementation.
Users focus on email as the key productivity hub. Therefore, Microsoft Outlook is seen as the application that gets the most attention. To ensure that users can still access SharePoint document libraries without having to visit the document library, document libraries can be linked to Microsoft Outlook.
As a SharePoint evangelist, working with users to identify their requirements can sometimes feel like an uphill struggle. We have all heard of the wishful thinkers, the my app does this so SharePoint had better too, the lets tweak this bit by bolting on that from ‘XYZ Consultants Are Us Inc’, and the list goes on.
Fun and laughter installing the June CU 2011 for SharePoint Server.
After installing the CU, and then running an update as per the instructions at:
You may get this error just after step 2 of the Config Wizard:
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An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException was thrown. Additional exception information: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SPUpgradeSession Name=Upgrade -20110924-194525-15 was updated by DOMAIN\ACCOUNT, in the PSCONFIG (7240) process, on machine SERVER. View the tracing log for more information about the conflict.
Total number of configuration settings run: 3
Total number of successful configuration settings: 2
Total number of unsuccessful configuration settings: 1
Successfully stopped the configuration of SharePoint Products.
Configuration of SharePoint Products failed. Configuration must be performed before you use SharePoint Products. For further details, see the diagnostic log located at [LOCATION OF LOG] and the application event log.
To Resolve:
