Destin Joy's contributions

Learn how the SharePoint 2010 Service Application Framework replaces Shared Services Provider and supports service provisioning, administration, redundancy, and load balancing.

Many people asked me what are the requirements for SharePoint 2010 to install.This will give you some idea

SharePoint Sandboxed soultion is a new feature in SharePoint 2010.

As you know Microsoft has replaced the 12 hive structure that we had in SharePoint 2007 with 14 Hive directory structure in 2010.In this article I am describing about some of the important directories used with SharePoint 2010 under 14.

In SharePoint 2010 a variety of security methods has been introduced. In this article I am giving a small introduction of the new security improvement

There are some new features in VS 2010 for SharePoint 2010

We can create two types of webparts using Visual Studio 2010.

In this article I am describing the backward compatibility of the SharePoint 2010 object model. Some of my readers asked me about it. I hope this will give some idea to them. Most of the organization is migrating from an older version of SharePoint to SharePoint 2010. In this context this article will be of great help.

Explains the SharePoint WebPart lifecycle, including OnInit, LoadViewState, OnLoad, CreateChildControls, OnPreRender, Render, OnUnload, and Dispose.

In this article I am describing the differences between site definition and site template. Many people have asked me in which situation should we go with site definition and in which should we go with site template. All these questions will be answered in this article.

In this article I am describing Alternative Access Mappings and how it is useful in SharePoint. I am also describing how to configure it.

In this article I am describing how to clear SharePoint Configuration cache.

In this article I am describing how to quiesce the SharePoint server. I will explain more about it in this article. This is a very good feature if you want to install or need to do any maintenance in the servers.

In this article I am describing the benefits of applying Service Pack 2 of SharePoint 2007. I received a lot of emails asking about the benefits of it and why we should go with Service Pack 2. So I thought it would be nice to write an article about that.

In this article I am describing one of the new Service applications in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2010 there is an architectural change from SharePoint 2007 with the new concept called Service Applications. I am sharing with you the details about which services should run in WFE and application servers.

In this article I am showing how to create a folder in a SharePoint document library, make unique permissions for the folder then add users to that folder programmatically.

Explains the databases used by SharePoint Server 2010, including content, configuration, search, and user profile service databases.

In this article I am explaining about securing anonymous access in SharePoint 2010 sites. This is a pain for most of organizations when dealing with public facing anonymous access sites. In this article I also cover how to secure _layout folders.

Learn how to disable custom error mode in SharePoint 2010 by updating customErrors settings in the web.config files for a web application and Central Administration.