Thursday, April 18, 2013

TagCloud Webpart not available SharePoint 2010

Do you feel like breaking your head is less painful than looking for Tagcloud webpart ?.

Well than don't worry your head is probably safe is you haven't yet given  up searching :-)


Just Activate the PortalLayouts feature

stsadm -o activateFeature -name "PortalLayouts" -url "http:///sites/" -force

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Usage Data Retention in SharePoint Database - SharePoint 2013

Check the current retention policy using :
Get-SPUsageDefinition

By default it's 14 days.

To change the retention use the following script:

Set-SPUsageDefinition -Identity "Page Requests" -DaysRetained 31


Complete definition of this command can be found at :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607542.aspx


Gray Failures: What is it and how to detect one?

If you are reading this article , i guess you are curious to know about gray failures and different methods to detect gray failures.  Hopefu...