Hiding Lists & Libraries from the WebPartAdder in SharePoint 2010

One of our clients had a requirement to hide the Lists & Libraries web parts from the selection of web parts that the use can add to a page.

Looking at the master page, the control which displays the list of web parts available is the WebPartAdder.

This control has a property called ShowListsAndLibraries.Setting this property to false hides the Lists & Libraries category from the list.

ShowListsAndLibraries="false" runat="server" />

SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit V1 released

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=718447d8-0814-427a-81c3-c9c3d84c456e&displaylang=en

The documentation for the tool kit can be found at

SharePoint Foundation 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508986.aspx

SharePoint Server 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508851.aspx 

Windows update KB938444 & "Cannot connect to the configuration database"

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/06/22/installing-kb938444.aspx?_sm_au_=iVV6RRM2W4q7rWZS

User Profile Synchronization & Standalone installation of Sharepoint 2010

If you want to configure User Profile Import from Active directory or any other secondary source please install SharePoint 2010 in “Farm Mode”.

The User Profile Synchronization service does not work with the Stand Alone installation mode of SharePoint.

Quoting a reference from technet :

“The farm is running either the Standard or Enterprise version of SharePoint Server 2010 and you have run the farm configuration wizard. Profile Synchronization does not work on a stand-alone installation for SharePoint Server 2010.”

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049(office.14).aspx

SharePoint 2010 Capacity boundry limits

Microsoft have released a white paper on SharePoint 2010 Capacity management: Software boundaries and limits.The white paper can be downloaded here

On a high level:

	Moss 2007	SharePoint 2010
Content DB Size	100 GB	200 GB
File Size	2 GB	2 GB
DB’s per webapp	100	300
Site collection size	100 GB	100 GB
List items per view	2000	5000

SharePoint Visio Stencils for solution packages and Features

Maxime Bombardier has posted some Visio stencils and templates for designing SharePoint solution packages and Features :). This would be a lot of help in documenting solution packages & features visually.

The stencils are available for download here

Deleting(Unextending) Extended web applications

When we extend a web application, the extended web application will not appear in the Web Application list. Hence we cannot delete the Extended site through the "Delete Web Application" section of Application Management.

Use this approach to delete the extended web apps:

1. Start Central Administration
2. Go to Application Management
3. Click Remove SharePoint from IIS Web Site
4. Select the web application that the extended web app was extended from
5. Select which extension/zone to delete
6. Keep or delete the IIS Web site
7. Finally click OK

If you look closely the page is named "unextendvs.aspx" :)