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We have lots of customers ask us this question and it is a valid one when you are looking at what is required to connect back to your Exchange backend. If you have Exchange 2007 or 2010 (SBS2008 or SBS2011) in-house the super simple answer is any one of the above EXCEPT BlackBerry (more on …

We’ve been having a lot of “fun” lately.  The addition of a couple of new larger customers presented a series of challenges to us and, in the process, we learned a few things.  Most of us in the tech world look at the big shiny tech toys out there and, if we’re lucky, get to …

If you’re getting an error on load of PerformancePoint about it being unable to load (basically you get a Windows error that your application failed to launch successfully – such as “PerformancePoint dashboard designer has stopped working”), the link below could resolve your issue (it worked for me).  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981692 Basically this will reset all your …

This is a sponsored community site (by Idera), it’s worth checking out. http://secretsofsharepoint.com/ What I like most about this site is the following. The Tips section The Forums Some of the downloadable webcasts are quite helpful

Like it or not, this may someday save your life.  Knowing how and why certain rules take precedence over others is the bread and butter of CSS, and also why it can be such a pain to master.  This article lays it really well and explains how the points system works.  Hopefully you’ll never see …

I found a really simple one liner PowerShell that will tell you which site collections are in which content databases. Just copy this line (verbatim – no changes necessary) to a SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, and voila! Get-SPContentDatabase | %{Write-Output "- $($_.Name)”; foreach($site in $_.sites){write-Output $site.url}} The reference article is below. http://sharepointrelated.com/2012/03/09/get-site-collections-per-content-database-one-liner/

I recently ran into a situation where I came across the following error when trying to apply the August 2011 CU to a SharePoint 2010 SP1 system. The operation cannot be performed on database <Database Name> because it is involved in a database mirroring session.  ALTER DATABASE statement failed. In order to get past this, …

Time to engage mirroring on your SharePoint databases?  Woah… slow down there horsey!  There’s a few things you should know before you just blindly setup mirroring on all the DBs in SQL. Not every SharePoint DB is meant to be mirrored.  The list of those not meant for mirror are as follows. Usage and Health …

Love this post! Why do people fight so much over what ultimately amounts to such a small investment for such a huge return. http://blog.brainlitter.com/2012/03/21/just-get-the-sharepoint-enterprise-cal-already/

I recently came across an issue in the Nintex installation where Nintex Live did not appear to completely install successfully.  I was installing the 2.3.2 (English only) version of Nintex.  The installer ran to completion just fine, and the deployment of the WSP’s all worked without any kind of error, but as soon as I …