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March 2012 Blog Posts

What Every SharePoint Admin Needs to Know About Host Named Site Collections

My buddy and all round decent bloke, Kirk Evans, a PFE from Texas way has put together a great blog post on Host Named Site Collections (HNSC) in SharePoint 2010. This should be considered essential reading for SharePoint infrastructure types (IT Pros as Microsoft so offensively buckets them :)). HNSC are often referred to as Host header site collections, and are greatly misunderstood by the field at large. Indeed some SharePoint “experts” have recently made some rather silly statements about them, suggesting they should be avoided. Admittedly many moons ago there were statements about that from Microsoft...

Sixth edition of the free DIWUG SharePoint Magazine

The best free SharePoint magazine published online, the DIWUG SharePoint e-Magazine, have released their sixth edition. As usual this is a great edition with a mix of articles written by SharePoint community members. I contributed a two part article series, of which part one is featured in this magazine: Real World Service Application federation with SharePoint 2010 Part One One of the most powerful new infrastructure capabilities in SharePoint Server 2010 is that of Service Application Federation. Enabled by the new Service Application ...