Typically, Service Applications will be backed up as part of a full farm back-up, along with all other components of the farm, If you want to backup individual service applications such as Managed Metadata service, User Profile Service then you can use Windows PowerShell to back up the SharePoint service application, below steps describes the procedure. You are required to have farm...
Business Data Connectivity Service Example
This post explains surfacing the Adventure Works table data in SharePoint. You can read my previous post on Business Data Connectivity Service terms here. Business Connectivity Services is the set of services and components that enables the connectivity between heterogeneous business systems. SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services can be used to connect any data source to present the...
File type in FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010
Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 has enhanced search capabilities, content processing features and integration capabilities. You can configure the FAST Search Server in Farm or can install on multiple servers to meet your search demanding requirements. FAST Search Server crawls and extracts metadata from different file types. Scenario – Assume you have a document library which contains several...
Business Data Connectivity Service terms in SharePoint 2010
Business Connectivity Services is the set of services and components that enables the connectivity between heterogeneous business systems. SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services can be used to connect any data source to present the business data as SharePoint content. Now it is easy to create business applications which involves read, write operations using a single data access platform...
Columnstore index in SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 introduces a new Index type called Columnstore and it offers great performance for data-warehousing loads and other similar queries. Columnstore indexes are designed for data-ware house workloads that are typically read based. This post discuss about how Columnstore index work, how the data is stored in it and what type of queries can benefit from a column store...
SSL Encryption in SQL Server
This post discuss about security of SQL Server data and steps required to configure SSL Encryption in SQL Server. There is a feature named Transparent Data Encryption in SQL server 2008 which provides security for static data, what about the data that flows over the network. SSL Encryption can answer this question. What is SSL Encryption? Secure Sockets Layer(SSL) encryption encrypts...
Protecting SharePoint from Viruses
General assumption that file-system anti-virus software also scans the SharePoint document libraries. Wrong! It will not detect viruses stored in document libraries so install an antivirus solution for SharePoint. SharePoint does include any type of antivirus protection, you must purchase this separately. This post discuss about available products and configuring the antivirus feature in...
What’s new in Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate
Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is available for download and number of features have been added since Visual Studio 2011 beta. You can read my previous post on Visual Studio 2011 beta features here. This post discuss the about new features in Release Candidate. IDE Updates Updated user interface in Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate as shown below You can notice there is a change...
User Accounts for SharePoint 2010 Farm Installation
SharePoint have services that require access to servers in network, it needs a few accounts to use as identity of several its services. For SharePoint Server Farm installation you need a specially configured SETUP account. THE SETUP ACCOUNT Setup Account is used to run SharePoint installation and configuration , which it uses to create configuration database, assign the farm account right to own...
SharePoint Sites and Databases
This post describes the sites and databases that SharePoint create during installation. SharePoint creates at least creates three IIS Web Sites, one site is for SharePoint Central Administration, another site is to use SharePoint’s lists, Sub Sites and libraries and third website is to support webservices, such as Business Data Connectivity, Security Token Service and Topology. You will...