praveen pandey

Indexing 2007 profile and mysite from Sharepoint 2010

Praveen Pandey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:24:24 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/praveenpandey/archive/2012/02/14/indexing-2007-profile-and-mysite-from-sharepoint-2010.aspx

While working with a customer, we had this interesting requirement related to SP 2010 content migration. The migration process would take its own sweet time, but we wanted to migrate people search first. In 2010, when you search for a person it would search against its profile database and show you the relevant results, this is what you would expect. But what if you want the search result to show you a result from MOSS 2007 profile database and when you click on my site of an individual, it takes them to their 2007 my site. Well it is possible to achieve it. Here is how you do it.

Open Central admin in 2010 > Application Management> under Service Applications click Manage service applications.

Click the Search Service application> On you left hand navigation click Content Source> Click Edit from the drop down for Local SharePoint sites> Delete the Mysite URL and sps3://XXXXXXX url and replace it with the Mysite url and sps3://XXXXX url from MOSS 2007(You can find sps3:// url for MOSS 2007 in search setting page in the SSP). Perform a full crawl and search for individuals in people search and you will see the result show up from 2007 profile store. Click on one the names and it will take you to the my site from 2007.v

Stsadm to PowerShell mapping

Praveen Pandey — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:03:23 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/praveenpandey/archive/2010/12/09/stsadm-to-powershell-mapping-again.aspx

Having worked on MOSS 2007, I always wondered if I could find an article that would happen map Stsadm commands to powershell commandlets. And then I found this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff621084.aspx .

Selecting a Week in ASP.NET Calender Control

praveenpandey — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:15:44 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/praveenpandey/archive/2010/06/30/selecting-a-week-in-asp.net-calender-control.aspx

You can either a buy a 3^rd party control or write your own to get this working. And I was brave enough to write my own, so here is what I did.

The ASP.NET calendar control fires an event when you click on a day (DayRender ). Add a handler to this event

weeklyCalendar1.DayRender += new DayRenderEventHandler(weeklyCalendar1_DayRender);

in the Event Handler add the following code:

void weeklyCalendar1_DayRender(object sender, DayRenderEventArgs e)

{

if (e.Day.Date > DateTime.Today)

{

// e.Cell.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Gray;

e.Day.IsSelectable = false;

}

DayOfWeek fd = (DayOfWeek)weeklyCalendar1.FirstDayOfWeek;

DayOfWeek selectedday = weeklyCalendar1.SelectedDate.DayOfWeek;

//Start Day of the week

int dateDiffStartDay = selectedday - fd;

if (dateDiffStartDay < 0)

{

dateDiffStartDay = 7 - Math.Abs(dateDiffStartDay);

}

DateTime FirstDate = weeklyCalendar1.SelectedDate.AddDays(-dateDiffStartDay);

//LastDay of the week

DateTime lastDate = weeklyCalendar1.SelectedDate.AddDays(-dateDiffStartDay).Date.AddDays(6);

if (e.Day.Date >= FirstDate && e.Day.Date <= lastDate)

{

e.Cell.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Gray;

}

SelectedFirstDateOfTheWeek = FirstDate;

}

Branch Cache in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 can help SharePoint

praveenpandey — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:20:20 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/praveenpandey/archive/2009/08/26/branch-cache-in-windows-7-and-windows-2008-r2-can-again.aspx

This is an interesting concept. Branch Cache can be very good in low bandwidth remote offices. If this solutions works, it will be a tremendous boost to SharePoint. Some of the complains that you hear about SharePoint implementation is that it is slow in low bandwidth offices. Branch caching may not help in a Collaboration situation where too much of read write is going on but for everything else it is a great tool. It caches everything, for pages to images to office docs.

Here is a quick demo of it http://edge.technet.com/Media/Branch-Cache-in-Windows-7/

And for the whole shebang visit http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/branch-office.aspx

Running 64-bit Guest OS on a 32-bit Host machine

praveenpandey — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:44:36 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/praveenpandey/archive/2009/08/14/running-64-bit-guest-os-on-a-32-bit-host-machine.aspx

I like my 32-bit Windows 7 OS and don't plan of moving to 64-bit anytime soon. Windows 7 has lot of good capabilites, and I was hoping that the Virtual PC would support 64-bit Guest OS, but it does not. I am still waiting for Microsoft to say, "You can do it" with Virtual PC on my Laptop with 32-bit windows 7 OS.

So I started looking around for some other tool that could help me and guess what, I found this incredible tool from Sun called VirtualBox that allows you to create 32-bit and 64-bit Guest OS on your 32-bit machine. One of the problems I am facing with Virtual PC in windows 7 is that, there is no way for me to access my local HDD like I could do when the host OS is Windows XP. VirtualBox fixes that problem as well. Did I mention that it also uses the Virtualization capabilities, if you the new computers. I love Microsoft and all that, but for this tool is a kick ass.

Bing or Google

praveenpandey — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:33:21 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/praveenpandey/archive/2009/07/17/bing-or-google.aspx

I enjoy binging and googling and get what i am looking for in this wide world of internet. But then what if i want to bing and google search.... Well, now I Bingle at http://bingle.pwnij.com/ and get my results from both searcher.... keeps Microsoft and Google Happy.

Now go and Bingle my name and see the magic...

BDC Meta Man, the Web Edition

praveenpandey — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:46:15 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/praveenpandey/archive/2009/07/08/bdc-meta-man-the-web-edition.aspx

Here is a nice post about the various components of BDC Meta Man http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/07/06/how-we-did-it-bdc-meta-man-web-edition.aspx

All about Performance and Capacity Planning

praveenpandey — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:12:14 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/praveenpandey/archive/2009/04/28/all-about-performance-and-capacity-planning.aspx

Here is a list of all you need to know about Performance and capacity planning for SharePoint.

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/07/09/capacity-planning-key-links-and-info.aspx

Exporting SharePoint List data to SQL Server Database

praveenpandey — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:51:41 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/praveenpandey/archive/2009/04/16/exporting-sharepoint-list-data-to-sql-server-database.aspx

Here is a good link that has some good info about exporting SharePoint List to SQL Server using SSIS.

http://blogs.officezealot.com/mtblog/archive/2008/06/03/importing-list-data-into-sql.aspx

Its me

praveenpandey — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:25:06 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/praveenpandey/archive/2009/02/10/its-me.aspx

SharePoint Developer Training

praveenpandey — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:37:41 GMT

Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/praveenpandey/archive/2008/11/06/sharepoint-developer-training.aspx

Here is a good training material for SharePoint Developers.

Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skills. Ramp Up has a solid foundation of premium technical content from subject-matter gurus, and provides easy-to-access content in a variety of forms that guide you in learning the important skills. Join Ramp Up (it's free!) and help advance your career - click on a track now to start!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/dd221355.aspx