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SharePoint 2013 Preview Deployment - Failed to create the configuration database

On deploying 2013 on SQL Server 2012, you might get an error when running the configuration wizard...

Date: 10/10/2012

SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Disk Space Requirements

To be able to estimate the total disk space required by aSharePoint 2010 farm, you need to estimate...

Date: 03/19/2012

SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Farm Design Considerations

While designing large SharePoint farms, many considerations need to be assessed. Below are some...

Date: 03/12/2012

SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Confirm Farm Size after modelling

During the modeling step, first step in capacity management, you identify the expected use of the...

Date: 10/17/2011

SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Build New Environment Usage Estimates

After analyzing the use of the current environment, you are able to involve business sponsors/users...

Date: 10/11/2011

SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser Part 2

As mentioned in my previous post, you should run the log parser on logs for a specific day. You can...

Date: 09/26/2011

SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser

Log Parser is a powerful tool to extract useful usage information from IIS logs. It can be used for...

Date: 09/22/2011

SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser

Log Parser is a powerful tool to extract useful usage information from IIS logs. It can be used for...

Date: 09/22/2011

SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Check Current Enviornment Usage

As mentioned in my previous post, the first step in capacity management is modeling the SharePoint...

Date: 09/19/2011

SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management

SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management It is important to plan for your SharePoint environment...

Date: 08/24/2011

SharePoint 2010 SP1

SharePoint 2010 SP1 is almost here. It is expected by the end of June:...

Date: 06/09/2011

Migrating to SharePoint Host Name Site Collections 3

In my previous 2 posts on Host Named Site Collections, I laid out the powershell scripts to create...

Date: 05/10/2011

Migrating to SharePoint Host Name Site Collections 3

In my previous 2 posts on Host Named Site Collections, I laid out the powershell scripts to create...

Date: 05/10/2011

Migrating to SharePoint Host Name Site Collections 2

After the creation of host names site collections as per the script mentioned in my previous...

Date: 05/10/2011

Migrating to SharePoint Host Name Site Collections

According to technet article https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx ,...

Date: 05/10/2011

Migrating Forms Based Authentication Sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010

Migrating Forms Based authentication sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 using database...

Date: 05/09/2011

SQL Server Tips & Tricks: Create Bulk Queries 2

In my previous post, I mentioned that sometimes you need to create dynamic queries for SQL servers...

Date: 05/08/2011

SQL Server Tips & Tricks: Create Bulk Queries

Sometimes you need to build bulk query to select, update or insert data to SQL tables. The selected,...

Date: 04/10/2011

Tips & Tricks: SQL Server Mail Configuration

After configuring SQL Server database mail and testing it successfully, you could find maintenance...

Date: 04/10/2011

Merge Replication Step by Step

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA In an earlier post, I mentioned Merge replication and...

Date: 01/06/2011

SQL Merge Replication

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA A specific type of replication that is powerful for...

Date: 12/04/2010

SQL Mirroring And Replication

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Database...

Date: 12/04/2010

Configuring Windows Network Load Balancing

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Network Load Balancing (NLB) is commonly utilized with...

Date: 12/01/2010