SharePoint 2010: How to upload a List Template

- Go to the Home of your site

- Click on Site Actions and select Site Settings

- Under Galleries select List Templates

- Click the Documents tab and select Upload Document

- Select the list template (.stp file) that you want to upload

- Now you can create a list based on your new template

Setting up user profile synchronization in SharePoint 2010

Setting up user profile synchronization seems to be one of the most tricky tasks in SharePoint 2010. I experienced this myself just recently.

The problem was that I started with the farm configuration wizard right after I first installed SharePoint 2010. This basically sets up everything for you, including a default user profile synchronization service and My Site host. Starting from there resulted in lots of issues. I could get SharePoint to work properly with my own newly created User Synchronization Service. Even after properly setting the service connectors.

So after a lot of head scratching I just started all over with two fresh web applications.

In this post I would like to share which documentation I used to set everything up and make it work:

This is probably one of the best guides out there to set up user profile synchronization: http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx
Follow it to the letter!

This post explains common issues with user profile synchronization: http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups2.aspx

This is a video I found explaining user profile synchronization: It’s way too high level though: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/technet/en-us/office/media/video/video.html?cid=stc&from=mscomoffice&VideoID=29d6d43b-3a9a-4e1c-97e4-3fa93ac0d810

This is the official “Configuring profile synchronization guide” from TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049(office.14).aspx#WebAppProc

This TechNet article had some info related to planning user profiles: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721054.aspx

So hopefully this will help you get you on your way!