So when enumerating the SPWebs within a SPFarm to build a strongly typed SPWeb collection for whatever purpose your enumeration might look like this: PLAIN TEXT C#: public static List<SPWeb> WebsPreppedForIteration() { var collection = new List<SPWeb>(); foreach (SPSite x in SPFarm.Local.Services.OfType<SPWebService>().SelectMany (svc => ((svc).WebApplications.Where (webApp => !webApp.Properties.ContainsKey("Microsoft.Office.Server.SharedResourceProvider")).SelectMany (webApp => webApp.Sites.Cast<SPSite>()))).Where (x => !Equals(x.RootWeb.Title, "Central [...]

SharePoint governance, throughout the various versions of the product has remained a difficult concept and technical task for organizations to tackle. Part of the fundamental problem with SharePoint governance arises from the lack of adaptive tooling within the product to provide organizations with a logical path towards genuine Enterprise Content Governance (ECoG). Organizations are encountering [...]

There are several components that must be considered when taking into account the holistic SharePoint 2010 environment. (All referenced posts are internal posts, so I won't be sending you to a bunch of random sites ) Indexing There is a limit of 20 indexes that can be created for each list. Importantly, this includes the [...]

There have been several past posts that deal with the list threshold, such as here. A list may exceed the list view threshold and then some operations will be blocked. The big problem with this is that the default list view can’t be used to access the list, bad news bear! They have to be [...]

More a quick tip than anything. In the below are two helper methods that make the process a lot easier. The first method will help to normalize the values for handling things like delimiters: PLAIN TEXT C#: private static string NormalizeValue(string fieldValue) { if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(fieldValue)) { var str = fieldValue; if (str.StartsWith(SPFieldMultiChoiceValue.Delimiter)) { str = [...]