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Create a Self Signed Server Certificate - IIS7 Create a self-signed certificate for a local computer for one or more of the following reasons: Troubleshooting third-party certificate problems. Managing IIS remotely. Creating a secure private channel between your server and a limited, known group of users, such as that in a software test environment. Testing features that rely on SSL settings. Warning :  This procedure generates a self-signed certificate that does not originate from a generally trusted source; therefore, you should not use this certificate to help secure data transfers between Internet clients and your server.  Self-signed certificates may cause your Web browser to issue phishing warnings. Create a self-signed server certificate Open IIS Manager and navigate to the level you want to manage. In  Features  view, double-click  Server Certificates .  In the  Actions  pane, click  Create Sel...

SharePoint Governance - Jumpstart How do you begin?  1. Create an internal SharePoint user group Gather a group of those who run SharePoint, who are interested in learning about SharePoint, and those who know your business. Meet weekly, monthly – whatever makes sense as you start to put together your plans. Bounce ideas off one another, share responsibilities, but most important of all – incorporate the various perspectives into your plan so that your governance model better matches the culture of your group and company. 2. Clearly define roles and responsibilities Farm Administrators Site Administrators Project Owners Approvers Reviewers Outline the necessary functions to deploy and govern. Figure out what you need at the enterprise, organizational, and site level. Put a process in place (like OARP) to help the decision- ‐ making process. 3. Outline your taxonomy, communicate it, and iterate The point here is to ge...

SharePoint Governance - Strategy Governance for SharePoint could be defined as your strategy for delivering the business solutions your end users want, within the scope of the technology, while maintaining those business constraints. Your governance standards require monthly auditing of permissions, to ensure that the right people have access to sites and content. Additionally, there is a desire to maintain consistent taxonomy and content types across environments so that content can be migrated from the extranet to the intranet as external projects come to an end.  What's all behind Governance definitions? A review of your environment may be the first thing required.  This analysis of SharePoint will help you to understand how your users are interacting with SharePoint. For example, what sites are out there, are they used, who has access, what type of content are they uploading, how many content databases are there , etc. When it comes to enforcing your ...

Enable Ajax Control Toolkit 3.0.30930.28736 - SharePoint 2010   Have you ever faced the below issue with SharePoint 2010 ? If YES, you need to enable Ajax Control ToolKit version 3.0.30930.28736 on your SharePoint server. Alternatively you may use JQuery instead. Although SharePoint 2010 is running on top of the .NET framework 3.5, it cannot work with the Ajax Control Toolkit 3.5 or 4.0 as both of them are optimized for .NET 4.0. Step 1 : Download AjaxControlToolKitBinary Step 2 :  Extract the contents of the binary (Let the path  be C:\Users\spadmin\Desktop\AjaxControlToolkitBinary) Step 3 : Open PowerShell ( Run as A dministrator ) Step 4 : Change to the folder that contains gac util command (I n my case its C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bin )  Step 5 : Enter gacutil /i C:\Users\spadmin\Desktop\AjaxControlToolkitBinary\AjaxControlToolkit.dll  Step 6 : Check C:\Windows\assembly to see if t...

SharePoint Governance Plan What governance should mean for every organization ?    It comes down to three basic points: 1. SharePoint doesn't matters - The business matters. 2. Governance is not a checklist, but a strategy.  3. When you understand the requirements of your business, and the constraints of the technology, you can use governance to bridge the gaps.        SharePoint is just a tool which we achieve certain business outcomes, and against which we apply our governance standards. Governance is a strategic activity and not a set of rules to be applied. In an ideal world, the governance plan will be built prior to implementation. The starting point should be to define the roles, responsibilities, procedures etc that your plan will consist of. In most cases, it is achieved through continuous review and analysis. This analysis will help to understand hoe users are interacting with SharePoint.  Poi...

Understanding the SharePoint Hierarchy At the top of the hierarchy are  SharePoint Farms . This encompasses all the physical servers that comprise your SP installation. It may consist of one server or twenty. When you run the SharePoint Product Configuration wizard after installing, you either create a new server farm or connect to an existing one. It’s done once. Once you have your server farm you must set up a  web application . This is what creates a corresponding website in IIS to host the site. This is where it gets its application pool and other IIS properties. You can create multiple web applications on a server farm. Now you have a hollow web application but nothing else. Enter  site collections . It is simply a collection of SharePoint sites inside the web application. Here you define a top-level site. You can have multiple site collections. From your site collection you have a top-level  site  that will have  multiple s...