(Brian) Ever heard the one about not being able to crawl more than a million or two rows from a single source using SharePoint Business Connectivity Services (BCS)? In this post, I plan to dispel this myth and instead show that large crawls tend to fall over because of overly large enumerations.

(Will Feaser) Managing user profiles in SharePoint 2010 presented many challenges to administrators. If you ever had to troubleshoot user profile imports in SharePoint 2010, you probably quickly realized that the FIM synchronization client was an invaluable resource.

(bspender) In several forums, emails, and discussions, I keep seeing this recurring question, "How can I limit results to a specific library [in this site collection]?" Turns out, this was more difficult than I originally thought …until I found mention of the escape character "" (essentially as a s

(Dave The SharePoint Engineer) Backing up and restoring a site collection using PowerShell is a pretty straight forward task and you can read the documentation for Backup-SPSite at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607901(v=office.15).aspx

(S P) In this article we will look into how to get items from a list based on the value of “ID”.

(Daniel Wilkens) The explosive growth of mobile and social technology is no surprise when considering how we interact with others on a day-to-day basis. New technologies have provided us with the ability to organize groups of individuals and connect better than ever before.

(Pravinkumar Dabade) SharePoint versions prior to 2010 have been using SharePoint API (a.k.a. Server-Side Object model) to develop SharePoint web parts.

(Laura Aberle) With improved search, a SharePoint 2013 migration can make enterprise content easier to find — and more valuable.

(Scott Robinson) In any migration to a new Microsoft SharePoint platform, the first issue is the nature of the legacy system: Is it an earlier SharePoint installation or a non-Microsoft CMS platform?

(Brien Posey) Many organizations are debating whether it’s better to keep hosting file data on file servers or to move the data to SharePoint. Plenty of people will tell you that file data should always be stored in SharePoint. Conversely, some believe that file servers are a more logical choice. So