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SharePoint 2010 – Backup your synchronization profile connection

If you implement a complex synchronization profile connection (specific OU, some exclusion…), you may to backup it in case of disaster recovery or need to reuse it. To do so, launch the FIM console (located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Synchronization Service\UIShell directory – the program is miisclient.exe). Click on the Meta Agents tab to […]

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SharePoint – Synchronization service with Windows 2000 domain controllers

As you already know, the user synchronization profile service in SharePoint 2010 is managed by ForeFront Identity Manager (FIM). This product (FIM) is still in beta – Release Candidate 1; so we may expect a SharePoint update to install the RTM version. As I’m currently involved on a SharePoint 2010 PoC, I had//have some issue

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SharePoint – Security vulnerability detected

A security vulnerability has been detected on Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 and MOSS 2007. This vulnerability may allow remote attacker to inject arbitrary code. This infect the _layouts/help.aspx. Microsoft is currently investigating to provide a solution. During this time, a workaround has been provided http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/983438.mspx

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SharePoint 2010 – Office Web Applications need additional configuration steps

As you already know, one of the new feature provided by SharePoint 2010 is the Office Web Applications (additional product to be installed) to allow users to display and edit Office document with a browser. However, if you configure manually – I mean without running the SharePoint wizard – the Office Web Applications you may

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SharePoint 2010 – User profile service still in ‘starting’ mode – follow up

Following my previous post regarding the User Profile services (SharePoint 2010 – User profile synchronization still ‘starting’) – many other have also the issue, here is an update. After a lot of time of work to make it work, here is what I did: after the first initialization (which failed), I delete the SA instance

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SharePoint and Office 2010 – Now available on TechNet and MSDN

This is it; Office and SharePoint 2010 are now available for download on TechNet and MSDN sites. For VLK (Premier customer), this will be available on May 1st. SharePoint Designer and SharePoint Foundation are still missing but should come quickly. The Information Worker virtual machine (for demo purpose) will be updated soon with the RTM

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SharePoint 2010 – User profile synchronization still ‘starting’

As SharePoint 2010 is released as RTM since few days, there is already an issue with the user profile synchronization service. When you try to start this service to enable and manage user profile synchronization, the service will stay in ‘starting’ mode for a while. This ALREADY a known issue on SP 2010 – according

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