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...
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...
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...
Using PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010
PowerPivot applications are created using Excel 2010 using PowerPivot add-in, You can read my post on configuring PowerPivot in SharePoint 2010 here. After creating a PowerPivot application then you need to upload it to SharePoint 2010 PowerPivot gallery so that it can share across organization. You should be able to preview the PowerPivot applications once you upload them to PowerPivot...
Extending the Ribbon in SharePoint 2010
Presentation Layer point of view Ribbon is a big change in SharePoint 2010, which provides the consistent user experience between SharePoint and Microsoft Office products. Ribbon is defined in the form of XML and Javascript is used to provide client side functionality. The client side script is located in the following path %SharePointRootpath%\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\CUI.js Configuration of...
Ghosting and Unghosting in SharePoint 2010
Two main page types in SharePoint are Application Pages and Content Pages. Application Pages are rendered from the file system and Content Pages are usually rendered from content database. Site Pages are often loaded from content database. Master Pages or Page Templates are actually being loaded from the local file system. Pages that are loaded from the file system are known as Ghosted...