In SharePoint server 2010 deployments in order to allow access to the sites using Form Based Authentication (FBA) the web application hosting the site collection(s) should be provisioned in Claims Mode as opposed the classic Windows auth mode, in this...

In MOSS 2007 as part of the SSP provisioning process “SPSMSITEHOST” site definition is being used to provision the MySite host (Root site) which provides access to user profile information through “person.aspx” and “SPSMSITE”...

Note: This post is based on Beta 2 and is subject to change in future releases. I highly recommend to review the Services upgrade model and User Profile Service overview on SP 2010 TechNet site before trying the following steps to upgrade a MOSS 2007...

A common task in a workflow is to send a reminder email to a user, if he/she does not complete the task within a timeframe (e.g. one day). One way to implement this functionality in a Sequential Workflow is to leverage EventHandlingScope and Delay activities...

Note: This post is based on Beta 2 and is subject to change in future releases. Following the previous post , here is the snippet which shows how to add a Managed Column (TaxonomyField) to an existing content type using OM: 1: using System; 2...

This post provides a high-level step by step guide on upgrading a SharePoint 2010 site to a SharePoint 2013 (Customer Preview) and as with any Beta release is subject to change. For further information on planning and upgrading content and services to...

Here is quick step by step post on how to build a sample App to embed a Yammer feed on an O365 SharePoint site by leveraging Yammer Connect API . In Visual Studio 2012 create a new project using SharePoint 2013 App template: Open the App.js file an add...

Today I was asked by a colleague whether we can run User Profile Service instance and Profile Synchronization service on more than one server in the farm and the answer is Yes! Q1) Assume that you have started the UPA instance on your app server (e.g...

To set the Workflow status to a custom value add your custom Status values to workflow.xml under <MetaData>: <ExtendedStatusColumnValues> <StatusColumnValue>Rejected</StatusColumnValue> <StatusColumnValue>Failed Verification<...

I was asked by one of my colleagues on how to have access to the name of the user who is modifying a task programmatically within the Workflow code. Every time a task gets modified by a user ( SPTaskProperties.AssignedTo ) the OnTaskChanged activity populates...

Note. I want to thank Daniel Odievich for providing the content of this post, a must read! When developing SharePoint workflows, one often needs to send email notification for a task, and then keep sending regular reminders for this task at scheduled...

OOTB when searching for a person using "PreferredName", "WorkEmail", "UserName" and "AccountName", along with the core search result (Displayed via Search Core Result webpart) person's information is also displayed using "Search High Confidence Results...

WF's DelayActivity is best suited for scenarios such as sending Reminders or if you want to force your WF to dehydrate for a batch update on Item's column(s), as you may know a .NET 3.0 hotfix or SP1 needs to be installed so that the Delay activity works...

Recently I was asked by a customer on the steps required to upgrade content from MOSS 2007 (Windows auth) web application to SharePoint server 2010 and providing access to the sites and my sites for same users and groups via AD FS 2.0. For this post I...

Recently I was asked by one of my customers on how the Content Organizer feature can be leveraged to design a large archival solution using SharePoint 2010. Initially this feature was enabled and configured for their Record Center (e.g. http://records...

Update: The External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint (ECTS) is now available exclusively on CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source Web site. To access these resources, visit the Community Kit for SharePoint on CodePlex. http://cks.codeplex.com/ ...

Issue: You are getting lots of 10016 DCOM errors and possibly related 6482 and 6398 after installing MOSS SP1: Event Type: Error Event Source: DCOM Event Category: None Event ID: 10016 Date: 12/14/2007 Time: 9:54:49 AM User: LITWAREINC\SP_AdmWorkerProcess...

By default setup and farm administrator accounts need to have "Security Admin" and "dbcreator" rights so we can setup a MOSS farm, in some cases due to security policies and regulations DBAs are not allowed to give those rights for production SQL which...

I just wrapped up an intensive Three week MCM training up in Redmond and wanted to share couple of posts on the program from colleagues who attended the R2 (Beta) for folks who are interested: Master Training: Are You Ready? My Microsoft...

Recently I collaborated on a SharePoint Collaboration best practice article which just got published on Technet along with a series of great articles on Operation, Publishing, Search and My Sites: · Ops: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850692...

While working on an engagement deploying a medium farm on Windows 2008 with no internet connection I noticed a considerable performance hit causing by check for publisher's certificate revocation which is on by default. Basically by having this option...

Recently I received questions from our customers on SharePoint 2010 People Picker behavior when provisioning web applications in Claims mode using trusted identity provider such as AD FS 2.0, complaining the control not behaving as it does in Classic...

If you are planning to install MOSS 2007 SP2 or already installed it please read the following important announcement which just posted by SharePoint Team Blog: Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

Note: This post is based on Beta 2 and is subject to change in future releases. When upgrading MOSS 2007 FBA sites based on publishing templates, you need to run “MigrateUsers” method against the web application hosting the site to migrate users and...

I was asked by one of my customers to help troubleshooting why they could not import multi-value values for user profiles using BCS in SharePoint 2010, first of all this TechNet article and Spence Harbar’s blog have a lot of good information on planning...