I'm still neck-deep in WCM planning, design, and development on my current project and also get lots of questions on branding topics, so a frequent point of discussion is various design patterns for the use of master pages. One of the topics that's come...

Here's another interesting one I encountered with multilanguage WCM sites while living here in Europe. Seems simple enough, but as always with multilanguage sites, appearances can be deceiving... The Requirement This one's pretty basic. We've got...

One of the great things about working on MOSS projects here in Europe is the prevalance of multilanguage requirements. You just don't encounter multilanguage requirements (at least on intranets & extranets) nearly as often in the US. I've had a lot...

It's been a blistering few months prepping for MCM, going through the MCM program, and getting caught up on the massive backlog of work and life that occurs when you tell coworkers, friends, and family that you'll be dropping off the face of the earth...

Link Integrity Management: Processes, Tactics, and Solutions One lengthy and complex topic I recently discussed with a customer is link integrity management – how to keep links from breaking when you move and rename things. Turns out there are several...

I'm back after a long hiatus - international relocations tend to consume a lot of your free time - so it's time to start dusting off some of the many learnings I've had over the past few months... One important topic I've encountered with my current...

Three of the SharePoint Academy and BPIO University courses I taught earlier this year are now available in webcast format. Many thanks to the sponsors on our product team, the Microsoft Information Worker community (global and local), content contributors...

In a previous post , I extolled the virtues of deploying our branding code in a solution. While I still make that recommendation without any reservations, it's important to note that you may need TWO solutions to deploy your branding customizations. ...

Preamble... One of the frequenly cited shortcomings of Forms-Based Authentication when compared to Windows Integrated Authentication is its lack of built-in support for an "All Authenticated Users" group similar to NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users...

Just a quick lesson learned on the MOSS Profile Import Tool to save you import time and resources. The Profile Import Tool's current release has a hard-coded paging algorithm that attempts to page through any membership provider's GetAllUsers method...

If you're attempting an STSADM -o export (or, I'd assume, a content deployment) of a site and receive the following error: FatalError: Failed to compare two elements in the array. Check out the following KB article: http://support.microsoft.com...

Chalk this down as the 1045th* time I've been reminded that you learn something new about SharePoint every day. *The number of days I've been working with SharePoint... :) Requirement: Increase the maximum upload size for documents and attachments...

For anyone using a custom authentication provider or non AD/LDAP* directory service, the Profile Import tool at http://www.codeplex.com/sptoolbox is an awesome tool for adding users. Just plug in your provider(s), tweak a few configuration settings, and...

Various Topics: Virtualization: Platform choice: Virtual Server 2005 R2 x86 or x64 is supported Recommended against running production environments on VPC 3rd Party: See KB article 897615 Architecture considerations: Recommended...

IRM/RMS Implementation General Deployment Resources: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/rms/default.mspx Extranet planning considerations: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/107e1338-4dcf...

Several folks have asked for this, so here it is... the two other pieces of the ResourceRedirect solution from my LAYOUTS branding post. They're also the least interesting, which is why I didn't post them before. :) Enjoy... review this post for the full...

Recommended Readings/Resources on ITPro Topics: Case Study for DPM 2007 for SharePoint: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897855.aspx How to increase the size of a Site Template beyond 10MB: http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007...

This won't mean too much for those of you who aren't attending the AcademyLive courses, but here are some recommended readings on two topics we were discussiong today - Security & Information Architecture. Recommended Readings on Security: ...

This came up during the SharePoint AcademyLive Search class today, and isn't the first time I've been asked how to do this, so I figured it was time to write a post. :) When you're first configuring your farm, it's often easier to configure Kerberos...

So we've got another MOSS environment to brand for my customer. This time it's an extranet environment for partner collaboration that has some very minor changes from the Intranet branding implementation I've described in the initial series of posts....

Yay. We launched a few days ago. Now it's time for another recap of lessons learned on the technology and process fronts: Process Learnings (AKA battle scars): Requirements & Design. I won't go into the reasons why, but we had an exceedingly...

We've spent the past four days doing user acceptance and regression testing on our branding, and I've found a couple of essential additions. Expect more as the testing wraps up over the next week or two: Branding the "Operation in Progress" Page...

Introduction In order to get a consistent look and feel across all the pages, we had to brand the LAYOUTS pages as well. Since we needed webapp-specific branding and didn’t want to deal with the additional effort involved in branding & testing...

Introduction This post covers a sample technical design for the most common branding task you’ll encounter for site & system pages – adapting ALL site & system pages on ALL sites to your customer’s look-and-feel standards. We accomplish this...

Branding Methods by Scope and Scenario The methods matrices referred to in Part 1a appear below. Refer to that post for context, or you won’t find this very useful... Scope: Farm Single Site Definition Site Page Single...