SharePoint UserInfo Table Population Tool (Via Todd Carter )

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“In a previous post I spoke about how importance of pre-populating SharePoint’s Content Database’s UserInfo table with users for landing/root (and/or very popular) sites just before a large release of a new SharePoint web application. While I did mention the API you could call to make all this happen I did not provide any tooling. This post is about a small tool I wrote, which at this point has been used with a couple of customers, to pre-populate UserInfo tables.The tool itself comes in two flavors – one for MOSS 2007 and the other for SharePoint 2010 Server. Both flavors allow you to export users from the User Profile Store to a flat file which can then be imported in a manner which populates the UserInfo table. In addition, the SharePoint 2010 version supports both Windows and Claims users.”

Complete post here.

Recorded Webinar: Site Provisioning and Governance Assistant for SharePoint 2010(Via Bierman )

Extract from the original post ” Yesterday's Site Provisioning and Governance Assistant for SharePoint 2010 webinar was very well attended. Based on the webinar's turnout and the multitude of questions we received from participants, there is certainly a lot of interest in the features SPGA 2010 has to offer for SharePoint site creation and governance. Who can blame you for wanting to stop wasting so much valuable time creating, managing and governing SharePoint sites? It just makes sense that so many people are looking for a solution like SPGA 2010 to automate these processes.

Many of our clients asked us to post a recorded copy of the webinar for download. Here is a link to the recorded webinar, along with supporting materials. I've also included a link to the SPGA 2010 product page for more information.”

Complete post here.

How to automatically populate metadata fields in SharePoint using the PINGAR API (Via Alyona Medelyan)

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"Extracting metadata using PINGAR API

Metadata, by definition, is "data about data". Metadata of a document can be its author, format, creation date and location -- all relatively simple to determine. It can also be information about the document's content such as tags, keywords and taxonomy entries, or names of mentioned people, organizations and locations. This kind of metadata helps greatly when narrowing down the search results, however it requires much effort when entering it by hand. This is where PINGAR's natural language processing technology comes in..."

Read complete blog post here.

Enjoying SharePoint Saturday Conference in DC

If you are in the area and are not attending this conference then you are really missing a good opportunity to learn something new and to meet and befriend new exciting people. It's a beautiful day today. There are hundreds of sessions to choose from. Rooms are full. It's so encouraging to see SharePoint community growing. SharePoint Saturday used to host 200 attendees at one time. Now it's more than 1200 attendees. Wow!
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If you cannot join today, join tomorrow. It's holiday. There are lots of informative sessions tomorrow.
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New Content Database and RBS Sizing Guidance (Via Russ)

Extract from the original post “I was eagerly awaiting some new content database and RBS storage guidance that I had heard was coming from Microsoft. Of course, they managed to release the new info when I was out on vacation. Then I had planned on transferring my blog to a new hosting provider and didn’t want to put out any new posts using the old system.

So yes, this post is a little late and I’m sure half of the planet has already blogged about this, but since storage and RBS are something that I’ve talked a lot about, I feel like I need to add my 2 cents to this one. What am I talking about? I’m glad you asked…

The Microsoft SharePoint Team blog has published some new guidance regarding supported content database sizes. The provide a summary of the changes and some nice background info in this blog postwhere they did a VERY good job highlighting the changes and pointing you to the new supported limit statements referenced in TechNet. So in the sections below, I want to just mention a couple of things related to the new guidance.”

For complete blog post view Russ’s blog here.