Recently I have received a lot of misinformation on associating workflows to content types managed via Content Type (CT) Hub. It is true that workflows do not get published along with the content type from the hub. That means, if you have associated...

Microsoft released Visual Studio 11 Beta last week – This also includes Team Foundation Server (TFS) 11. What you might have noticed is the addition of new product TFS Express 11 available for FREE. TFS Express 11 is a new product line-up in the Visual...

This is a follow up of my previous post – Understanding SharePoint Sites When customers ask me what they should be doing with their newly deployed SharePoint environment, I say Put People First! – Let users find their peers, colleagues. Let them share...

Are you eagerly waiting for “Office 15”? Then here is some news! We just announced the beginning of the “Office 15” Technical Preview and a public beta later this summer! (Summer in the USA, Winter here in NZ) While the Technical Preview program is already...

One of the new enterprise search feature added to SharePoint 2010  is the ability to search people by their ‘nicknames’. For example: You could search ‘ aron ’ for ‘ aaron ’ or ‘ jon ’ for ‘ john ’. We geeks call this Phonetic search Below is a screen...

Spencer has written by far THE BEST blog post on configuring User Profile Service (UPS) Application in SharePoint 2010. Below are the steps I always check/validate when I provision the UPS: 1) Add SPFarm admin account to local administrators group...

SharePoint is a platform. When you deploy SharePoint, it is going to help you build and automate many business solutions, not just the project for which you are deploying. Yes, I hear you – Every project starts with building an Intranet! But is your organisation...

SharePoint 2010 October 2011 cumulative update packages have been released. Below are the links: SharePoint Foundation 2010 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2553050 SharePoint Server 2010 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2553048

Ari Bakker and Wictor Wilen both have done great jobs on documenting what it takes to provision SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata fields. - Ari Bakker’s Provisioning SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata fields - Wictor Wilen’s How to provision...

SharePoint Calendar is a great tool to manage events related to your site and also provides many other capabilities like creating multiple calendars and overlaying calendars. The Problem What about exporting individual events as .ical so you can add them...

The Problem If you are using custom web templates to create your site, you may face an issue where InfoPath forms don’t work in your site. Here is the screen shot of the error message: What is missing? The InfoPath site feature is missing. You can check...

Earlier I blogged about how to make use of the new dialog framework in SharePoint 2010. It covered working with Application Pages in the _layouts directory. What about sandboxed solutions? Can you create custom sandboxed dialogs? Yes, you can! It involves...

Below is a simple code snippet that you can wrap in a site scoped feature to publish and subscribe to content types from a content type hub. As a precaution, please be careful to use this code snippet in production unless you have thoroughly tested it...

The Problem Web templates allows you to specify which features to activate by customising the onet.xml file. Usually developers will pick the nearest one or more site definition’s onet.xml they want to use – copy the WebFeatures and SiteFeatures...

I have had some interesting discussions with Wayne Ewington and others on what base template should you use for web templates. A little background to what this base template means to web templates: Web Templates depend on an existing site definition installed...

As promised, you can download my session – Provisioning SharePoint Sites Using Web Templates – slide deck and sample. Provisioning Sites in SharePoint 2010 Using Web Templates View more presentations from Chakkaradeep Chandran . The sample is a Sandboxed...

If you are looking for a single document that discusses about the issues fixed in SharePoint 2010 SP1, then hit the link below to download the Excel workbook that lists the issues fixed by this service pack: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Office servers...

One of the cool new features introduced in SharePoint 2010 SP1 is the Site Recycle Bin feature. Earlier, the only way to restore deleted sites and site collections required to restore the appropriate content databases. But from SP1 onwards, deleted...

SP1 for SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 is now available for download: SharePoint Foundation 2010 - KB 2460058 SharePoint Server 2010 - KB 2460045 For known installation issues, visit here . SharePoint product team have also blogged...

In SharePoint 2007, we have the choice of using _layouts folder for deploying document templates that are used in content types. That option still exists in SharePoint 2010 for farm based solutions, but the SharePoint Root (14 hive) is not accessible...

The new SharePoint 2010 prerequisites installer installs all the software required to install SharePoint 2010. The default behaviour of this prerequisites installer is to download the files from Internet. However, you can install the prerequisites from...

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS STRICTLY A CONCEPT AND IN NO WAY IS RECOMMENDED TO BE USED IN PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS. In SharePoint 2010, workflows cannot be directly associated with external lists. This is because the data is not stored in SharePoint, so...

Content type hub is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 to manage content types centrally and publish them to the subscribed sites. As any other new feature introduced in SharePoint 2010, content type hub also has its known limitations and some workarounds...