JeffDeVerter on May 7th, 2010

Here is a great list SharePoint 2010 site templates and their associated name (so you can use them in your wonderful PowerShell cmdlts… http://www.markus-alt.de/blog/?p=118 BTW: if you wanted to get this list yourself, you just need to use the following PowerShell: Get-SPWebTemplate | select Name, Title

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JeffDeVerter on May 7th, 2010

SharePoint 2010 has had some major feature investments around the concept of “multi-tenancy”.  What does this mean?  In short – it provides the ability to keep data from one customer (or group) separate from one another.  Part of the features for managing this is a new site type called a “Tenant Administration Site”.  The Tenant [...]

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JeffDeVerter on April 30th, 2010

Like many of you, I was (and in some cases) was very confused about how SharePoint 2010 Search and the new FAST Search for SharePoint worked when the FAST product was installed in a SharePoint environment.  My understanding was that when FAST was installed, SharePoint Search ceased to exist.  Turns out – that was wrong. [...]

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JeffDeVerter on March 31st, 2010

I work at Rackspace on the Dedicated SharePoint team – which means that we create a new SharePoint farm on dedicated hardware for every customer who comes online with us. This translates to only ever needing to create a few WEB Apps and Site Collections per customer. With this in mind – it’s usually easier [...]

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