Service applications basics SharePoint 2010

Manage Administrators of a Service Application

You must be a member of the Farm Administrators group to manage service

Application administrators.

1. On the Central Administration home page, in the Application Management

Section, click Manage Service Applications.

2. On the Manage Service Applications page, click the row of the service

Application for which you want to manage administrators.

3. On the management Ribbon, in the Operations section, click Administrators.

4. In the Administrators dialog box, add or remove users or groups.

5. For users or groups you add, use the check boxes to configure permissions.

6. Click OK to save the settings.

Delete a Service Application

You must be a member of the Farm Administrators group to delete a service

Application.

1. On the Central Administration home page, in the Application Management

Section, click Manage Service Applications.

2. On the Manage Service Applications page, click the row of the service

Application you want to delete.

3. on the management Ribbon, in the Operations section, Click Delete.

4. In the confirmation dialog box, click the Delete Data Associated With The

Service Applications check box if you want to delete the associated database.

5. Click OK to delete the service application.

Access denied by Business Data Connectivity

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and the Microsoft Office 2010 suites include Microsoft Business Connectivity Services, which are a set of services and features that provide a way to connect SharePoint solutions to sources of external data and to define external content types that are based on that external data.

Recently I was giving training to group of people on BCS (Business Data Connectivity) functionality and I've been getting a few questions from people who have been trying this out, but stumbled onto some problems with it in terms of permissions when they tried it out themselves.

When you've created your external list and try to access it (even as the same user, Administrator which created it) you might get the following error:

If you are facing the same problem then here is the solution that you are looking for:

§  Central Administration

§  Application management

§  Manage service applications

§  Business Data Connectivity Service

§  Your Entity

§  Set Permissions

§  Now set the permissions as per your project requirements, You might want to use different permissions in your environments

In my farm, I am using this:

That’s it and you are done:

You should now be able to access the external list and see the desired result.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you

blocked file types-SharePoint 2010

File types can be blocked on a per Web application basis or globally.

The settings are made from the operations tab of the central administration web site.

Essentially it is a list of file extensions that are not allowed. SharePoint only checks the extension and then allows/disallows it.

So if you try to upload an exe file and find that it is blocked, you can change the extension to .doc and upload the file. Antivirus checks the file content and decides whether it is a .doc or .exe file.

The default list of disallowed file extensions is as follows:

ade, adp, app, asa, ashx, asmx, asp, bas, bat, cdx, cer, chm, class, cmd, com, cpl, crt, csh, dll, exe, fxp, hlp, hta, htr, htw, ida, idc, idq, ins, isp, its, jse, ksh, lnk, mad, maf, mag, mam, maq, mar, mas, mat, mau, mav, maw, mda, mdb, mde, mdt, mdw, mdz, msc, msi, msp, mst, ops, pcd, pif, prf, prg, printer, pst, reg, rem, scf, scr, sct, shb, shs, shtm, shtml, soap, stm, url, vb, vbe, vbs, wsc, wsf, wsh

What is a Farm Passphrase ?

The farm passphrase is a new security feature in SharePoint Foundation 2010. Similar to a password, it is created as part of the initial creation of a SharePoint farm (or as a part of upgrade). The passphrase is created during PSConfig portion of SharePoint installation. It is then only required for adding additional servers to the farm.

In addition to a somewhat added layer of security, the farm passphrases main function is that it is used to encrypt the credentials for the farm administrator and other “managed accounts.” Using the new managed accounts feature is optional and the details surround its use will be covered in detail in another module. Just Keep in mind that managed accounts are similar to traditional service accounts except they are managed by SharePoint. Because the credentials for these managed accounts can be encrypted by SharePoint, SharePoint also now has the capability to access account credentials and use them. For example when creating a new Web application, an administrator can select and associate a managed account to the Web application without having to know the password for that managed account. Using the encryption key created using the farm passphrase, SharePoint will be able to decrypt the credentials for any managed account. Administrators will thus potentially not have to know the passwords for any accounts managed by SharePoint, which can be a big plus in a least privileged security environment.

is it possible to set up Quota for Subsites in SharePoint 2010 ?

Site quota management is very important to control the resources in site collections. We all know that site quota can applied at the site collection level only in SharePoint Server 2007 but now the question: is it possible to set a storage quota on individual sub-sites within a site collection in SharePoint 2010?

The answer is: the same situation persists in SharePoint 2010 also. Quota templates are applied at the site collection level in SharePoint 2010 as well.

To know the complete details then please refer this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263223.aspx

Still if you wants to know how we can calculate the subsite storage then please let me know, Thank you