Tuesday, November 29, 2011

September SharePoint Updates

Published the week of September 26, 2011

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262043.aspx
New articles
Critical state of this rule indicates that the Word Automation Services is not running when it should be running (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by enabling the Word Automation Services timer job.
Implementing Claims-Based Authentication with SharePoint Server 2010 (whitepaper)   Describes how SharePoint Server 2010 administrators can use claims-based authentication to control user access to internal SharePoint Server 2010 Web application resources, and also external resources.
The settings for Word Automation Services are not within the recommended limits (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the settings for Word Automation Services.
Use Visio Services with Secure Store   Describes how to use Visio Services with credentials stored in Secure Store to refresh data-connected Web drawings published to SharePoint Server 2010.
Variations design considerations (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes design considerations for planning a variations infrastructure within a publishing environment, and makes recommendations about how to approach common scenarios.
Verify each User Profile Service Application has an associated Managed Metadata Service Connection (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by editing the connections for the User Profile service application.
Verify each User Profile Service Application has an associated Search Service Connection (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by editing the group of connections for the User Profile service application.
Verify that the critical User Profile Application and User Profile Proxy Application timer jobs are available and have not been mistakenly deleted (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by editing the rule definition so that the configuration is automatically repaired.
Web Analytics: Verify that the Site Inventory Usage Collection timer job is enabled for all the Web applications serviced by the Web Analytics service application (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the settings of the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Site Inventory Usage Collection timer job.
Updated articles
Timer job reference (SharePoint Server 2010)   Changed the default for the User Profile Service – User Profile Language Synchronization Job from 1 minute to daily.
Upgrade paths from Search Server 2008 or Search Server 2008 Express   Added descriptions of supported and unsupported upgrade paths.

Published the week of September 12, 2011

New article
Best practices for capacity management for SharePoint Server 2010   Provides information about capacity and performance best practices for SharePoint Server 2010.
Updated articles
Automatic update setting inconsistent across farm servers (SharePoint Foundation 2010)   Added permissions information.
New-SPPerformancePointServiceApplication   Added the following parameters: DatabaseFailoverServer, DatabaseName, DatabaseServer, DatabaseSQLAuthenticationCredential.
Set-SPPerformancePointServiceApplication   Added the following parameters: DatabaseFailoverServer, DatabaseName, DatabaseServer, DatabaseSQLAuthenticationCredential.

Published the week of September 5, 2011

New articles
Alternate access URLs have not been configured (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the default zone URL.
Best practices for search in SharePoint Server 2010   Describes best practices for configuring and maintaining search in SharePoint Server 2010.
Designing pages for quicker downloads (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes how to reduce the page-load time of a SharePoint site for WAN environments.
Estimate performance and capacity requirements for large scale document repositories in SharePoint Server 2010   Contains guidance about performance and capacity planning for large-scale document management solutions. The article focuses on the performance characteristics of document libraries as size increases and on throughput of high volume operations, such as policy update and retention.
Plan for administrative and service accounts (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes the accounts that you must plan for and describes the deployment scenarios that affect account requirements for SharePoint 2010 Products.
Product / patch installation or server upgrade required (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by deploying updates or upgrading.
Web.config file has incorrect settings for the requestFiltering element (SharePoint Server 2010)   Describes how to resolve the SharePoint Health Analyzer event by changing the requestFiltering settings in the Web.config file.
Updated articles
Configure the Secure Store Service (SharePoint Server 2010)   Added detailed steps for configuring the service application.
Configure the unattended service account for PerformancePoint Services   Added information about data access requirements.
Create a PerformancePoint Services service application (SharePoint Server 2010)   Added procedures for registering an application pool account.
How to configure AD FS v 2.0 in SharePoint Server 2010   Added link to a video that illustrates how to configure Active Directory Federation Services version 2.0 (AD FS) in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
Maintain profile synchronization (SharePoint Server 2010)   Added information about turning off the incremental synchronization timer job when you reset the synchronization database.
Plan browser support (SharePoint Server 2010)   Added a list of supported mobile browsers and a change to the guidance for Safari 4.04 on non-Windows operating systems.
Technical diagrams (SharePoint Server 2010)   Added a link to the Excel Services data refresh flowchart.
Video demos and training for SharePoint Server 2010   Added "Configure SharePoint Server 2010 with AD FS trusted claims" video.

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