What is Entity Service Object? How it is related to Business Data Connectivity model? You can read the terms in business connectivity services here. The Entity Service Object is equivalent to ADO.NET provider for SQL Server and Entity class represents…

Heavy database operations on SharePoint server may sometimes affects the user experience; SharePoint 2010 introduced a concept of List Throttling which prevents your server being going down. List Throttling allows an administrator to specify the maximum number of items that…

  This post describes adding search functionality to external list that created using SharePoint designer. Create a list based on external content type and give a name, when you browse this list for editing, you will notice that values can…

  Using PowerShell is very useful and powerful approach for many SharePoint activities. Microsoft officially recommends to you use PowerShell as it intended to deprecate STSADM in the future. This post explains PowerShell cmdlets(commandlets).Scripting is easier when using PowerShell, you…

  Physical deployment in SharePoint is something you are determining how many servers you will deploy in Server Farm. You can read my previous post on SharePoint farm topologies here. The common question when you deploying your solutions is How…

This post provides the information about service accounts and administrative privileges to setup and run the SharePoint 2010. The below table describes the required Privileges that required to install the SharePoint 2010 Account Description SQL Server Service Account It has…

Typically, Service Applications will be backed up as part of a full farm back-up, along with all other components of the farm, If  you want to backup individual service applications such as Managed Metadata service, User Profile Service then you…

This post explains surfacing the Adventure Works table data in SharePoint. You can read my previous post on Business Data Connectivity Service terms here. Business Connectivity Services is the set of services and components that enables the connectivity between heterogeneous…

Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 has enhanced search capabilities, content processing features and integration capabilities. You can configure the FAST Search Server in Farm or can install on multiple servers to meet your search demanding requirements. FAST Search Server crawls…

Business Connectivity Services is the set of services and components that enables the connectivity between heterogeneous business systems. SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services can be used to connect any data source to present the business data as SharePoint content. Now…