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Do you have Oracle Portal 10g? Want to move to SharePoint with full fidelity? I have scripts that will do exactly that! This would include: Portal Groups All pages with all "things" (URLs, content, files) Files with versions and comments Workflows...
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As a tribute to the 1-year anniversary of the start of the eBay upgrade project, I thought I would share the video I created to show at our celebration party in San Jose. It is a great video, and shows how much fun we had (and you should too) when we...
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This was a tough error, THAT IS AN UPGRADE SHOWSTOPPER, that I ran into a few months ago. Just now getting around to blogging it. Here's the full error: [powershell] [SPSiteWssSequence] [ERROR] [9/29/2011 12:02:27 PM]: Action 4.0.23.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPSiteWssSequence...
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A customer asked me if they could add a "Add Folder" to the document library list type in SharePoint 2010. I said, "probably", but wasn't sure exactly how one might do it. I dug in and found it! The secret lies in the vwstyles.xsl...
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How do I always seem to be the guy finding this stuff is beyond me, but I'm always excited when I figure this stuff out...ok, was getting this error after trying to run the PSConfig after an upgrade to SP1 and December 2011 CU. [OWSTIMER] [SPUpgradeSession]...
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There are a lot of posts out there saying that this is caused by a space in the name of the column. I'm sure that is one issue, but their is a deeper one than this. If you are like me and you want to tag lots of content in your site using various...
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You may run into a problem with getting your list views to work in SharePoint 2010 if you keep your old 2007 look and feel. Their are several articles out there that show you how to fix it programmatically, but not as an end user. The problem is with...
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Here is a complete list of supported tables\views in SQL Azure (11.0.1814.30): sys.all_columns; sys.all_objects; sys.all_parameters; sys.all_sql_modules; sys.all_views; sys.assemblies; sys.assembly_types; sys.CHECK_CONSTRAINTS; sys.column_type_usages;...
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They didn't say I couldn't post this data, so here it is. If you wanted to know what sessions you should review\watch, this should help you out. Also, if you are thinking about being a speaker, these are the type of eval scores you should expect...
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Here's the script to download the PPTs via PowerShell - the link to the file is below in case of copy paste errors ! function DownloadFile([string]$auth, [string] $file) { "Using " + $auth + " for file " + $file $url = " http://www.mssharepointconference.com/sessionpresentations/...
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As part of our eBay presentation at the SharePoint Conference 2011, we showed how we performed the upgrade in 3 months and utilized Managed Metadata (MMS) in site creation to drive searchability across the SharePoint Farm. The biggest question I have...
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Here is a short recap of all the cool stuff that happened this week. Over 7,500 people showed up in Anaheim, CA on Sunday to enjoy networking and learning about SharePoint! The event started off with the exhibit hall reception where you got your first...
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After the eBay upgrade, I have decided that it is really easy to do SharePoint upgrades and thusly I'm doing another upgrade here in San Diego. As part of the upgrade, you have to go through and analyze the 3rd party components that are installed...
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After finally having some time to do some course development, I have finished our FAST Search for SharePoint course. We implemented FAST at eBay and we learned quite a few lessons after doing it, all this is rolled up into the course! I'll be giving...
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Dear SharePoint Colleagues, Join the eBay team and myself as we discuss the eBay upgrade to SharePoint 2010 and how we did it in 3.5 months. The Conference session link is here: How eBay Successfully Upgraded their Intranet to SharePoint 2010 Here is...
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Dear SharePoint Colleagues, Get ready for a great evening at the 2011 SharePoint Conference! On Wednesday night, Oct 5th, after the exhibit hall reception, we will be having a SoCal SharePint party. Join us at Bar Louie's outside patio reserved specifically...
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Dear SharePoint Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that we are making available generic MS Project Plan and Governance plans and the SP Build Guide and MS Project Deployment Project based on all the upgrade projects we have been involved with over...
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Sooo, I mentioned that we did a few *firsts* at eBay. One of them was to put Windows Server 2008 R2 in the DMZ and try to get SharePoint 2010 to work. Needless to say, after setting everything up properly, it didn't. After enabling 500 failed request...
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I was getting this error: Admin OM Exception occurred. Message: Failed to communicate with the WCF service. , Error Code:e107, Stacktrace:Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Extended.Administration.Common.AdminException: Failed to communicate with the WCF service....
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Ok, you hear over and over and over again, don't do this, don't do that when developing SharePoint. But it seems that not too many people listen to all that wonderful best practice guidance. As part of the eBay project, we inherited A LOT of code...
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Blog #7 in How I Successfully Upgraded eBay to SharePoint 2010 - See Previous Blog In Series In my last blog post I made a comment that Output Caching does not work in 2010. Well, it works, but that's the problem . SharePoint 2010 has elements that...
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Blog #6 in How I Successfully Upgraded eBay to SharePoint 2010 - See Previous Blog In Series One of the requirements of our upgrade was that the upgraded system would perform better than the current 2007 production environment. This included the latency...
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Blog #5 in How I Successfully Upgraded eBay to SharePoint 2010 - See Previous Blog In Series As part of the eBay upgrade, we had several code changes that had to be made and tested. This included Solution Deployment and all its glory. One of the things...
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Blog #4 in How I Successfully Upgraded eBay to SharePoint 2010 - See Previous Blog In Series So you decided to move your content databases around eh? The urls for the site collections and webs are different? Did you ever think about all those lonely lost...
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Part 3 of How I Successfully Upgraded eBay - Previous Blog Post So what does it mean for you to "retire" an older web application for branding purposes? It is a simple change in Central Administration, but a nasty proposition when it comes to...
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