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    September 02

    Merge, Move, Restore SharePoint Databases

    Configure a server farm for minimal downtime during software updates (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
     
    Before you use the Stsadm mergecontentdbs operation, make sure that there is free space available on the hard disk that is equal to at least three times the size of the source site collection. To determine the size of the site collection, refer to the StorageUsedMB attribute of the Stsadm enumsites operation in step 2 of the following procedure.
     
    Best practices to have 15 GB per site collection
     
    Move one site collection from one web application to another
     
    SharePoint Site Moves, Database Moves and Balancing Growth
     
    Backing Up and Restoring Web Sites
     
    Migrating and Upgrading Web Sites
    July 21

    SharePoint Bulk insert using Datasheet view

    In case you want to make bulk insert for example from MS Excel file into SharePoint list, library etc check the following conditions:
     
    1. Go to List/Library Setting -> Version Setting -> Content Approvement should be in NO state
    2. Remove all mandatory fields from list view or temporarily make according fields to be not mandatory (Field Settings)
    3. Check type of the fields which you want to fill with bulk insert operation. Some field types could not be edited in datasheet table view. This field types are: "Multiple line of text"... checking other fields...