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I'm sure all of you have seen the new tagging feature of SharePoint.  This particular feature is a part of the User Profile Service Application AND Metadata Service Applications.  If you don't have one of these created, then you simply won't get the ability to do tagging.  If you do however, you can tag things as a ...

So what exactly does this thing do anyway other than keep growing HUGE?!?  Let's take a look!  A little background...I have been running SharePoint 2010 RTM since it was released and since then the Logging database has grown to 500MB.  The database itself seems to be dynamic in that you will start off with a small number of ...

At our SanSpug.org meeting for August I had some very intelligent questions asked of me.  Ones I didn't know the answer too, until now!  Here's the questions:What happens to a list that has been assigned a content type that was content published when we change and republish the content type.  Is it business as usual in that ...

When installing PowerPivot in your farm, you will have to manually add the following line to your web.config SafeControls section of EVERY front end server, you will also have to add this back everytime you make a change via the Web Application settings page in Central Administration: <SafeControl Src="~/_layouts/powerpivot/*" ...

What I believe to be a new change to SharePoint 2010 is the addition of some error checking around Regional Settings and indexed columns in lists. When you try to change the regional settings and sort order to something with a different collation type (sorting based on a-Z0-9, or 'a' is bigger than 'A' type of stuff), you will get ...

Another interesting feature I have found with column and list validation.  This feature works as described, but unfortunately only for NEW items.  If you enable column or list validation AFTER items have been added to a list, you will get an annoying error telling you the item was updated previously. This does not happen on a new item ...

In working with the document id service in one of my labs I found some interesting "features" of this new SharePoint 2010 feature.When you activate the Site Collection Feature, you MUST wait for the timer job to complete BEFORE you change the site prefix.  If you move to fast for SharePoint and you change the site prefix, you will ...

I was doing a demo today around SharePoint Designer 2010 workflows and found a bug in the design.  When you create a workflow and want to edit the xoml file for the workflow, you must check it out.  Why would you do that you ask?  Well, the Designer Interface is far from perfect and you may need to move a step around in case you ...

How do I know this?  Because you get this error if you have a 2000 Active Directory: UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS: Failed to configure ILM, will attempt during next rerun. Exception: System.Security.SecurityException: The Kerberos subsystem encountered an error. A service for user protocol request was made against a domain ...

I had a student ask me the other day if ForeFront would filter "Tags", "MetaData" and the various other new Social networking features of SharePoint 2010.  I know it will filter the content of a document, but the metadata and tags...interesting question!  To test it, I downloaded ForeFront Protection for SharePoint ...