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...

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...

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...

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”...

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...

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...

Recently I was asked by one of my customers to help them with a solution to allow uses adding link to documents on their shared folder, OOB "Link To Document" contnet type can be used to add a link in document library refrencing documet in another document...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As part of configuring your SharePoint Server 2010 farm you need to start the User Profile Synchronization service so you can import user profiles from AD or other applicable sources, one of the issues you may face is that after starting the service you...

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...

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...

As Stefan just posted on his blog the first CU for SharePoint 2010 is now available for download, if you are planning to install 983497 for SPS 2010 make sure to install 2281364 or you will get the following error when trying to open UPA management page...

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<...

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...

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...

Note: This post is based on Beta 2 and is subject to change in future releases. I highly recommend to review the Services in SharePoint 2010 Products diagram, Publish a service application (SharePoint Server 2010) and Connect to a service application...

Note: This post is based on Beta 2 and is subject to change in future releases. So this afternoon I was working on a project that required accessing term sets stored in a SharePoint 2010 managed metadata service application, in order to have access...

Note: This post is based on Beta 2 and is subject to change in future releases. As you already know when upgrading a MOSS 2007 farm into SharePoint Server 2010 farm using db-attach method, by upgrading the SSP database using New-SPProfileServiceApplication...

  While assisting a customer to deploy a SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting services I hit couple of issues that are not clearly documented on TechNet or MSDN: SSRS SharePoint integration only works with “Trusted Account” mode and integration mode would...

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...

Just released! Best practices for using fine-grained permissions   by Sean Livingston. This document describes the use of fine-grained permissions (FGP) for SharePoint® 2010 Products and SharePoint® Products and Technologies; performance issues related...