I inherited a SharePoint 2010 environment that had the PDF iFilter installed but was not showing the PDF icon for any of the PDF files.  It took a lot to resolve this issue, which is crazy.  It should’ve been simple.  So I’m writing about my adventures to spare you all from the anguish I faced.  […]

I have a client that wanted the social media functionalities to completely disappear from their SharePoint environment.  I found a website that demonstrates how to do this, complete with screenshots, and some very good explanations.  I have nothing to add to their fine work.  Just follow their directions. Note: their site takes a while to load (at least […]

David M. Sterling has written an excellent blog entry on tuning indexing performance.  I feel it’s very important and needs to be shared.  [Snippet below.] There are many factors involved in the SharePoint crawling process that can impact indexing performance. There are also some steps you can take to improve that. Here are the common […]

Spence Harbar mentioned this topic on his blog briefly but I didn’t fully understand what he was talking about.  I thought it was simply an add-in to Visio 2010 for SharePoint-specific shapes to incorporate into my next SharePoint network topology Visio.  I could always use more cute and helpful shapes in my Shapes menu.   I […]

After finding the hidden “set up groups” page that was openly available in MOSS 2007, I was reminded of another feature from the past that’s now hidden, but available, in SharePoint 2010: the user list.   In a site collection or site, when you go to look at the Users, you are only given the various user […]

In MOSS, you could use the “Set up groups” option within a site to create and assign the default Member, Owner, and Visitor groups. In 2010, the “Set up groups” link does not appear. The  “Set up Groups for this Site” page is hidden for SharePoint 2010.  You can still get to this page by […]

Once AD RMS is set up on the server, you need to set it up for the end users to actually use the AD RMS functionality.  This is a 2-step process: 1. Install/validate RMS client on client machines 2. Use RMS within Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) RMS client on client machines The […]

After I finally got AD RMS up and running, the next task was then to integrate it with SharePoint 2010.  This seemed simple: 1.  Go into Central Admin in SharePoint 2010 on a Web Front End (WFE) Server, 2.  Click Security, 3. In the section Information Policy, click Configure information rights management, 4. Choose one of […]

I inherited a partial installation of AD RMS.  The previous IT guy had simply installed the AD RMS and IIS roles on the box and assigned a url for the cluster.  Unfortunately, it was not the correct url so I needed to “remove the cluster” which sounded like a total mess.  Since AD RMS had […]

Error Msg: Attempt to configure Active Directory Rights Management Server failed. The AD RMS installation could not determine the certificate hierarchy. If the AD RMS service connection point (SCP) you need to use is registered in Active Directory but is not valid, revise it to make it valid, or create a new SCP, and install […]