When setting up content deployment, you might need to start from scratch on the destination side. You delete the sitecollection, create a new one and try running the deployment. The deployment process will fail and log an error that states that the database...

After you have successfully verified your content deployment job on a newly created farm, and your deployment jobs are stuck on the status Preparing and you see the message Content deployment status not available in the ULS log, just go back to Content...

Recently I had the opportunity to take part in the the 9th rotation of the SharePoint 2010 Master course in Redmond. I had big expectations on the course itself, having heard a lot of good things about it. Among the good things every single master I have...

During a recent claims discussion, it came up how SharePoint 2010 encodes claims into encoded claim strings. Here’s the answer: The claim i:0#.w|europe\andrasg translates into: i: This is an identity claim. Other claims would have the character c here...

I had some trouble today finding the reason why descriptions set on fields did not show up on the editform. Turned out that Office Toolbox was installed and even though it was not active, made all descriptions disappear. Retracting the OfficeToolbox wsp...

Recently I came across a problem where pushdown of changes on a contenttype did not work when doing a feature upgrade. The appropriate AddContentTypeField command was specified in the feature.xml template: <AddContentTypeField ContentTypeId="averylongidhere"...

Everyone who has had the pleasure of working in a team with other developers and using TFS with auto-incrementing version numbers most probably have faced the issue with webparts breaking after an increment in version numbers. This effect is not at all...

If you discover that a DataFormWebPart added programmatically is missing values in its built in XSL variables, like HttpVDir or PageUrl, verify that the ViewFlag attribute is set to something other than zero on your webpart. Took me some time to find...

Sometimes you stumble upon really strange errors when doing trivial things. When you dig deeper, sometimes it turns out the error comes from the lack of a HttpContext, for example when running some action through STSADM or a timer job. Recently I faced...

When setting publishing start and end dates on a publishing page, these dates will be saved in the PublishStartDate and PublishEndDate fields of the publishing page. Changing the scheduling settings will result in an immediate change of the page (with...

  As most of you already know, SharePoint 2010 brings a whole load of nice publishing features out of the box. One of these are the handling of publishing pages. Publishing pages are basically .aspx pages that get their content from the listitem...

Most of you are probably aware that setting fields like Modified, Editor, Created and Author require some special attention: 1: using (SPSite site = new SPSite( "http://sp2010" )) 2: using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb()) 3: { ...

Sooner or later in the life of a SharePoint admin there will be a time when the dreaded Secure Store Service will have to be configured. Usually this time comes when Excel Services has to be configured to map certain users to a predefined account to enable...

Setting a page’s favicon is pretty easy in 2010: <SharePoint:SPShortcutIcon runat="server" IconUrl="/_layouts/images/favicon.ico"/> Now try this with an icon coming from the Style Library: <SharePoint:SPShortcutIcon...

Just came across a problem where the creation of a site collection would fail with no real informative error message. If you are using custom claims providers you might be running into the situation described in Steve Peschka’s blog: http://blogs.technet...

Today I discovered a really weird thing on profile import. If you try to set the connection account to an account with a name longer than 20 characters, profile import will claim that the username or password is invalid. In this case, try entering the...

By default after installing SharePoint 2010 you will probably soon encounter the following two error messages in the Application log: Object Cache: The super user account utilized by the cache is not configured. This can increase the number of cache misses...

A really comprehensive guide on SharePoint 2010 identity scenarios. It is a must read for everyone planning a SharePoint 2010 deployment. Grab it from here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/B/F/BBF0C6F3-6E36-4979-8C43-DE165AD7AE34/SP2010 Kerberos...

If the User Profile Sync service is causing you constant headaches, here’s a mini howto for getting it work: Keep things together – Stop all instances of the User Profile Service (UPS) and User Profile Sync Service (UPSS). If the UPSS is stuck in starting...

The Geneva team has just released a package to support MOSS 2007 deployments with ADFS 2.0. Announcing the RTW of Federation Extensions for SharePoint 3.0 !! It even includes RMS config!

ADFS 2.0 has RTMed. You can grab it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=118c3588-9070-426a-b655-6cec0a92c10b You can also find the Geneva team’s announcement here: AD FS 2.0 is here!

Some of you out there might just want to run as far as possible when having to configure SharePoint 2007 Excel Services to refresh data from an external SQL or OLAP source using the logged on users’ credentials. The process involved configuring SPNs for...