Thursday, March 31, 2011

SharePoint 2010 is adding 20K new users per day

Quoting ZDNet news...

Yes, SharePoint 2010 is adding 20K new users per day and looks like Microsoft is making $1.3 billion in licensing and the partner ecosystem is around $5 billion a year...

SharePoint 15 development is in full motion...

Monday, March 28, 2011

SharePoint 2010 Managed Services

SharePoint 2010 Managed Services

Typically, SharePoint deployments go with one of the following options:

1) On Premise: You own the software license and flexibility to customize to your need but requires a dedicated IT department and expensive hardware and even with these resources specialists are needed to correctly setup SharePoint and train users.

2) Hosted: Subscribing to hosted or cloud based SharePoint from hosting companies, but you don't own the software license and lack the flexibility to customize SharePoint to your needs.

Not Anymore! Our SharePoint 2010 Managed Services offers you the best of both worlds!

SharePoint Innovations provides a fully managed SharePoint 2010 (Foundation and Server) solution for your small, medium or large business. No need to worry about servers or hardware. No need for a dedicated IT department, because SharePoint Innovations is your IT department and you own the software license!

Our fully managed and hosted SharePoint solutions are the answer for your company's SharePoint needs where you own the license of SharePoint, Windows and SQL Server directly from Microsoft at a discount.

SharePoint Innovations provides the most secure, reliable, affordable and responsive SharePoint Managed Service and Cloud Computing Solutions to run 24/7 business-critical SharePoint applications and web / ecommerce environments.

Our SharePoint 2010 Managed Services provides customized SharePoint Hosting solutions running on Windows Server 2008 R2, using servers from HP, IBM, or Dell. Customers receive a customized service offering based upon their specific needs and service level requirements.

For example, our SharePoint 2010 Professional Managed Services Plan offers SharePoint 2010 Foundation Server with 100 GB disk space on a dedicated server, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited number of users, custom url, unique IP, full server control over RDP, daily backups, no long term contracts, fully managed with 24x7 technical support with available training, consulting options and custom VPN/AD integration at $2995 setup and license fees and $495/month.

SharePoint Managed Services offering goes far beyond traditional hosting and monitoring services. Currently, we are the only company offering managed services that has the backing of our premier SharePoint application development team to assist with any needed customization or technical support that may arise.

Please visit http://www.sharepointinnovations.com/sharepoint-consulting/default.aspx for more info

SharePoint 2010 Service Accounts

AD Account name
Role
Domain rights
Local SharePoint Server rights needed
SQL rights needed
spfarmadmin
Used to install SharePoint binaries and Farm account. Used for Windows Timer Service, Central Admin and User Profile serve
Domain User
Local administrator on all SharePoint boxes
dbcreator and securityadmin SQL roles
spsitewebapp
App pool account for content web apps (end user site collections)
Domain User
None
None
spserviceadmin
Service app pool id
Domain User
None
None, unless using Office Web Apps. Them must give access to content databases manually
spsearchadmin
Search process id
Domain User
None
None
spsearchcrawller 
Account used to crawl content
Domain User
None
None
spuserprofile
Account used by the User Profile services to access Active Directory
Must have Replicating Change permissions to AD. Must be given in BOTH ADUC and ADSIEDIT. If domain is Windows 2003 or early, must also be a member of the "Pre-Windows 2000" built-in group.
None
None


Sunday, March 27, 2011

SharePoint 2010 Training from MVPs and Industry Experts

SharePoint 2010 Training from MVPs and Industry Experts

Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010

Here is the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group's recommendations -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff770300.aspx

If you are considering building serious enterprise applications on SharePoint 2010, Please feel free to contact us. We are in the process of building a large scale enterprise app on SP 2010, would love to share our experience.

Cheers!! Happy Sunday!!

SharePoint 2010 Technical Diagrams

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199.aspx

Many of these resources are visual representations of recommended solutions. They include poster-sized documents available in formats including Microsoft Office Visio 2007 or Microsoft Visio 2010 files (.vsd), PDF files, and XPS files.

http://www.sharepointinnovations.com/

Login user name fix domain name\user

If your SharePoint site is showing the active directory user name instead of full user name, run the following powershell command

Get-SPUser –Web http://yoursharepointsite/ | Set-SPUser –SyncFromAD

Cheers!