Wahid's SharePoint Blog - Latest Comments

Re: Working with SQL Aliases

Jshidell — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:57:16 -0000

Nevermind found out how to do this!

Re: Working with SQL Aliases

Jshidell — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:05:34 -0000

Wahid, what happens if my farm is already built using a sql cluster instance name and I want to use SQL alias instead, would I have to rebuild my SharePoint farm or is there an easier way to point my SharePoint farm to the SQL alias name via powershell without rebuilding?

Re: Managing SharePoint Designer

Wahid Saleemi — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:36:04 -0000

Woody Windischman also has some notes on Governing SharePoint Designer, an excerpt from his book, here: http://www.thesanitypoint.c...

Re: Working with SQL Aliases

OliK — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:19:53 -0000

OMG! This has literally saved me from going mad! Our SQL developer left and our alias suddenly stopped working. Having no experience in SQL Server finally finding this has got me back up and running. Phew!

Re: Working with SQL Aliases

Wahid Saleemi — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:00:35 -0000

Update: http://www.wahidsaleemi.com...

Re: Powering Communities

Jime — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:19:37 -0000

Congrats!

Re: How Do the SharePoint Alternatives Stack Up?

Wahid Saleemi — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:05:30 -0000

I can't really argue with that, this is afterall a SharePoint blog. However, i tried to be objective when comparing the products and this is just my personal study.

You can't really argue with the trend. Companies are switching from those vendors (and others) to Microsoft - it is an excellent product.

Re: How Do the SharePoint Alternatives Stack Up?

Bob — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:52:24 -0000

Sounds like you've been drinking the MS Koolaid

Re: Working with SQL Aliases

Todd Klindt — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:57:39 -0000

Hi Wahid,
Thanks for the shout out. :)

At the end of your post you say,

"When installing SharePoint, and it asks for your SQL Server name, just specify the SQL Alias. This way, if anything ever goes wrong with SQL, you can just change the Alias to a new server and not have to re-configure SharePoint."

If you don't use a SQL alias when you initially install SharePoint there is no need to reconfigure SharePoint if there is a catastrophy. You still just add a SQL alias, no reconfiguring required.

I stick by my point, there is no advantage to using a SQL alias when you install SharePoint. You have all the same options, with the same amount of work, if you just create the alias when you need it.

Re: Working with SQL Aliases

Wahid Saleemi — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:08:05 -0000

This should have been in the post but creating a SQL Alias can also help save on "round trips" between servers. For example, you can specify in the Alias that you just want to use Named Pipes or TCP/IP. By default, SQL tries various methods to connect - defining one will "help it along" and improve performance.

Re: Automating SharePoint Installation

zee — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:23:55 -0000

Nice blog. Thanks.
zee
walisystems.com

Re: Working with SQL Aliases

Wahid Saleemi — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:19:10 -0000

I think you have a point. The scenario isn't that convincing. However, consider smaller deployments where a SQL server is shared and just the SharePoint instance is affected. Todd Klindt pointed it out as well, you could use a SQL Alias in a catastophe just when its needed. I find its still worth it though, it takes no time to do. Its helped me streamline my PowerShell scripts - I should have put more use cases in the article.

Re: Working with SQL Aliases

Rick Taylor — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:11:16 -0000

I'm not against SQL Aliases, but your scenario still doesn't convince me. If I need to have a new SQL server and decommission the previous one, why not simply give it the same name and IP? No change whatsoever.

Re: Which services are required for SharePoint 2010 Web Server Role?

Wahid Saleemi — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:39:06 -0000

It should be running on all web servers. This PDF has some guidance around services: http://www.microsoft.com/do...

That being said, I have not tried forcefully turning it off from all but one web server. My guess is that it would result in some Workflows not running or getting errors.

Re: Which services are required for SharePoint 2010 Web Server Role?

Protocol5 — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:26:49 -0000

This is nice..Thanks..But does the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Workflow Timer Service need to be running in all web servers or it can be running in just one of the web servers?

Re: Arggh! ERR_CONFIG_DB

Wahid Saleemi — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:55:18 -0000

Hey Paul, I'm glad you were able to solve your problem.

Re: Arggh! ERR_CONFIG_DB

PaulE — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:06:50 -0000

THANK YOU Wahid!! We are also using a cluster and the DBAs didn't mention a named instance until I asked them about it. I had seen William's and Spence's posts (cherising Spence's as if it were gold), but niether of them mentioned a cluster. Your post brought it all together for us and let us get UPS working, at last!

Re: Which services are required for SharePoint 2010 Web Server Role?

Millenium Networks LLC — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:09:35 -0000

Nice Blog. Need your help with mine now,lol.

Re: SharePoint 2010 Top Lists and Pictures

John Miller — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:27:19 -0000

Hey,

Great post. Can't wait til all our new prodcuts come out soon its going to be exciting deploying 2010.

Re: SharePoint Conference Highlights

Mark Miller, EndUserSharePoint — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:41:46 -0000

Wahid - Thanks for all your help with the live blogging. As you can tell, people like Jay who were not able to attend found the live streams extremely entertaining and, hopefully, useful.

Regards,
Mark

Mark Miller, Founder and Editor
EndUserSharePoint.com

Re: SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Fundamentals

562networks — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:57:11 -0000

Interesing about the upgrade. Curious to work with Exchange 2010, win 7, Server 2008 R2, and Sharepoint 2010 all with new features. Funny feature I found out in R2 is they renamed Terminal Services to RDS and have a great feature called Direct Access.

Re: SharePoint Conference Highlights

Jay — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:05:14 -0000

Actually I was just one of the poor schmucks that didn't get to go. I've been pulling as much content out of the Tweets on the EndUserSharePoint Live Feeds as I can find.

Glad you found it useful!

Re: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit and other Tools

spmigrator — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:45:16 -0000

There is an excellent SharePoint admin tool from Xavor on the block. It’s free and can really ease the pain for regular day to day SharePoint troubleshooting tasks. There is no need to open SharePoint farm and use stsadm for administrative activities. Some mostly used functions of stsadm are easily available right within SharePoint main website through very nice Action Menu based user interface.

Only administrators can access these functions. Some of the functions you can perform using SharePoint power tools are;

1. Check User Security
2. Check Group Security
3. Get List Information like its ID, template, size etc
4. Web Information
5. Bulk Add Web Part
6. Bulk Delete Web Part

You can get these goodies free of cost right from Xavor website -> here

Re: External Users must retry several times to connect to SharePoint

Maedith — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:25:46 -0000

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Re: External Users must retry several times to connect to SharePoint

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