SharePoint Secrets

Good article published in Chaks' Croner MOSS 2007 Say for example you have a Site Collection Web Application1 and you have created a series of content types to use. Now, you create Web Application 2 and find the necessity to reuse the content types created in Web Application 1 . There is no way you could share or reference those content types created in Web Application 1 in Web Application 2 . The only way possible is to create or write an application which would install those content types. This situation is pretty common in large organizations. This can be even considered for exposing base content types you use across multiple web applications in the farm. Below is the diagram representing the above chaos: SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 now introduces a new feature called Content Type Hubs .Content Type Hub is a central location where you can manage and publish your content types – so now web applications can subscribe to this hub and pull down the published content types fr...

When you provision a web app in SP2010, you can choose it to use Claims Based Auth or Classic Auth right through the GUI. However, after you have provisioned a web app, there is no GUI to switch from Classic to Claims based. So the below powershell script will let you convert a SP2010 website to claims based auth after it has been provisioned. 1: $w = Get-SPWebApplication "http://sitename" 2: $w.UseClaimsAuthentication = "True" ; 3: $w.Update() The user running the above script should be a member of the SharePoint_Shell_Access role on the config DB, and a member of the WSS_ADMIN_WPG local group.

what estimates can be made on the disk space requirements for Index server, Query Server and Database Server. Index server disk space requirements: To estimate the index server disk space requirements, we recommend that you use the following calculations: • Size of data crawled = Y • Size of index on index server = a range of 5% through 12% * Y = X • Initial disk space = 2.5*X. A large amount of index server disk capacity is required to accommodate backups, which must reside on the same disk as the index, and to accommodate the merge process when crawled data is merged with the index. Note: The volume of crawled data can differ based on the content source. A content source is a set of options that you can use to specify what type of content is crawled, what URLs to crawl, and how deep and when to crawl. For example, if the content source specifies file-share content, the index size can be up to 30 percent of the size of the content. Content Index Sizing: You can estimate the size...