Single-Sign-On (SSO) process authenticates recognized users and opens access to multiple applications, to which they have been granted rights. Logging in the first time authorizes the users to access all applications and enables them to switch between them as needed. The users then don’t need to enter their password each time. This lasts until the […]

SharePoint administrators always desire and seek ways to improve SharePoint performance. Here are some ways to help enhance the performance of SharePoint as well as to extract the maximum from the SharePoint Servers. Cache Lists – In environments where most List related requests are read only operations, it helps to cache Lists so that the requests […]

The popularity & widespread use of SharePoint encourages creation of several Site Collections according to the needs of the organizations. But with time, some of these may be used less than others, unnecessarily consuming the server’s resources. This leads to a dismal situation and is of grave concern to SharePoint administrators as they need to […]

Systems administrators and network engineers need to configure and monitor a range of logs to keep themselves updated on the status of their Windows networks. They spend hours gleaning event log, security log, application log and various others to ensure that an error does not multiply to unmanageable proportions crippling their networks. Windows Management Instrumentation […]

Good network monitoring and reporting tools report important network events from multiple locations, to the network administrator. It’s either delivered to his email inbox or deposited at the indicated location in the preferred file format, at the designated time. All these network events have to be reported along with their correct time and date. However […]

With the advent of SharePoint 2013 and the new version of Office 365, SharePoint administrators may feel the business need to move content from old SharePoint servers to the newer version. Vyapin’s SharePoint to SharePoint migration solution, XPlica for SharePoint helps administrators accomplish this task with minimal effort. XPlica can migrate Sites, Libraries, Lists and […]

The classification of SharePoint content is a significant factor in ensuring that it is stored properly and that users get the right content while searching. It creates a uniform information schema that is common between users and applications. This allows content to be saved, organized, shared and retrieved through search queries. Large groups of SharePoint […]

Improving SharePoint content classification and providing better Search results is an ongoing task. As businesses grow and their SharePoint content swells, it requires regular tweaks to improve crawling and indexing focused on providing better Search results. Explained below are the points you need to take care of to improve search and how you can use […]

Organizing content in SharePoint whether existing or new is a challenging task. Since SharePoint users upload and share data through this platform there is a need to classify content, right from the beginning. Hence administrators and content owners will do better if they follow content classification and management protocols which will help them accommodate their […]

With usage SharePoint content database expands to a huge volume. The database expands as it has to accommodate documents (with multiple versions), the metadata, deleted content stored in the Site Collections Recycle Bin, various kinds of audit logs, transaction logs and reports, the Office Web Apps Cache used to store content for rendering and the […]

Re-organizing unorganized content in SharePoint is always a painstaking task. If documents have been uploaded and dumped without planning in Lists, then they pose a challenge as the SharePoint administrators and content owners have to take great pains to re-organize content into respective Lists & Libraries under various Sub-Sites. Though creating a new Site by […]

Migrating from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2013 is a challenging task as 2003 is an antiquated system compared to the new and vastly capable SharePoint 2013. Apart from having to adapt to the huge difference in technology, a lot of effort will also be required in cleansing the redundancy in the 2003 database. Besides this, […]

Migrating content from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013 can pose some challenges. Here is a list of challenges you may face when migrating from SharePoint 2007. Switching from 32 bit to 64 bit environment SharePoint 2007 was used in a 32 bit environment whereas the new SharePoint 2013 works in a 64 bit environment. Hence […]

SharePoint 2010 is upgraded to SharePoint 2013 in a long sequence of steps. Since databases are an important constituent for the successful running of SharePoint, the upgrade process is carried out using the database attach method. This involves creation of a Farm, copying content and SharePoint application databases, followed by attaching and upgrading the databases. […]