Content Type Hub for your Enterprise

Content Type Hub is the new verbage or term you might here a lot while talking about SharePoint 2010 as a enterprise level solution for document or record managment.

In my last assignment we have used Content Type Hub as it was an enterprise level Record Management System implementation. We have heard or known SharePoint as a Content Management System (CMS) since MOSS, but to me it actually comes with SharePoint 2010.

So when we started our implementation in early 2011, it was very tough for me as well to understand what it Content Type Hub and how it works. But thanks to SharePoint 4 Developer I found the answer in very easy language here.

Now, each new feature comes with their pros and cons. So, here are the cons or limitations for using the Content Type Hub.

Search Crawling Stops or The parameter is incorrect in sharepoint search

This is one of the worst problem I came across. :(

I don't blame Microsoft for this, but I can say a wrong governance model is the reason for this.

Problem: My client complaint that a new item added on the site is not comes under a search result since last few days. I spent lot of a time to find out the real cause. When I have gone through the Search Crawling log an error is found saying "The parameter is incorrect in sharepoint search". When I checked for all the other sites on the farm all are working fine with search and none of the site has given such error at the time of crawling. That has increased my curiosity.

After spending a full day at last I found a reason and its a cause for small party ;), thanks to Mattias Lindberg

Solution: The reason which stops the crawling for the site is the user we have added in the site are more than 5000 in a particular group instead of adding an AD Group.

I am just copying the workaroung given by Mattias below.

Our solution was to require sites with over 1500 members to use an AD group for keeping track of membership, as recommended by the KB for SPS 2003. One disadvantage with this approach is that you must maintain membership by updating the AD group so you can no longer request membership using SharePoint standard dialogs.

Probably an article is wriiten for SPS 2003 but infect it is applied to MOSS 2007 as well.

SharePoint Farm Configuration and Deployment

This series of articles which I have found on SharePointMagazine, that provides guidelines and instructions of how to plan, build and configure SharePoint farm across organizations. Current practices are based on the different of SharePoint projects and can be used as step-by-step instructions helping to configure proper baseline for SharePoint farms.

Part 1 – Architecture and Logical Planning
Part 2 – Installation
Part 3 – Development Environment
Part 4 – Backup and Recovery Strategy
Part 5 – Virtualization
Part 6 – Post Deployment

Recommended SQL disk size for MOSS-2007

Few days back I started working on a new project for one of the client.
The current environment they have is having a lots of probelme and is kind of a mess. We decide to improve their current environment. And the first challenge comes up is to convience their DBA Team for the sizzing of the SQL Server for MOSS. Thanks to cleverworkarounds, we got a very good artilce.
This article helps us to make the decesions on Disk and I/O Sizing for MOSS2007. Read Part-1 & Part-2