When User Profile Service application is configured in SP 2010, by default NT Authority\Authenticated Users and all authenticated users are granted permissions to create My Sites and use other features (personal and social) provided by user profile service...

  In SharePoint 2010 service applications, the managed metadata service connection properties can be set using the cmdlet Get-SPMetadataServiceApplicationProxy # Get Metadata service application proxy $metadataserviceapplicationname = "Managed...

#Load SharePoint User Profile assemblies [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName( "Microsoft.Office.Server" ) [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName( "Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles" ) #Function to get service...

It’s been quite sometime since I’ve written blog articles.  This post talks about setting farm account for PerformancePoint Service Application in SharePoint 2010 farm.  A new PerformancePoint Service Application was created in the UI specifying...

Supposedly in Webs.asmx web service we pass on the user credentials and then call GetWebCollection method to get the webs underneath the current site, we expect the web method to return only those webs for which the user has permission to.  But this...

Create a content type project in Visual studio 2010 and then create some custom content types with some custom fields in it. Sample Elements.xml file : <? xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-8" ? > < Elements xmlns ...

Upgrading BDC to BCS:   Due to certain changes in SharePoint Server 2010 Business Connectivity Services architecture and model’s schema changes, MOSS BDC Application Definition XML files cannot be directly imported post upgrade.  So, if we are...

It has been quite sometime since I wrote any blog article.  What a way to start SharePoint 2010 blog about Workflows!!  It’s all about a new service named Word Automation Services which is a component of SharePoint Server 2010.  It provides...

The UpdateList method of lists web service takes few parameters, out of which newFields, UpdateFields, and DeleteFields are some of them.  These fields are actually XmlNode that contains CAML Query within it.  There are tools available to build...

In a SharePoint site, when we take the mouse pointer on the top link bar we get the drop down menu for that particular site.  The drop down that shows up after placing the mouse pointer is too quick that it sometimes doesn’t allow to choose the other...

I recently got a requirement from a customer asking for a solution that will send a customized email to the people.  These were the requirements 1.  The 'From address' of the email should be title of discussion list. 2.  The 'To address...

I recently got a case from a customer complaining that the UpdateAllTasks activity fails to change any of the properties of the currently active workflow tasks even though the activity executes without error. The requirement is very simple.  In the...

Here is the scenario.  Supposedly a password in AD is expired and we try to log in into the SharePoint site as an AD user.  You will get to see these exceptions, “You are not authorized to view this page” / “Unauthorized: Access is denied due...

In Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.SendEMail Acitivity, there is a property called IncludeStatus http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.workflowactions.sendemail.includestatus.aspx . When this property is set to true, in the...

Let us consider the following scenario. You have a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site that includes a document library. This document library contains a document for which the Approval workflow and the Collect Feedback workflow are created....

I recently got a requirement asking how can we create Mysite for new users(also existing users) so that it already contains the custom site columns(field type choice) and Document content type with those custom columns. Well, you know the answer “Feature...

Using SharePoint Designer, what if we want to have a create a workflow that gets a list item as an attachment in another list based on the item ID of the item that's created.  This is not possible using OOB actions in SPD.  We can create custom...

How MCMS file upload works: When a file is uploaded, MCMS adds and saves them to the database. Once in the DB, it gets cached on the file system when there is a request for it. What happens when we rename / delete the file in file cache : ...

When a BDC web part is mapped with an instance of BDC Application Definition file ( that uses SQL database ), sometimes the column filtering doesn't work. On filtering of the column, it doesn't return any data. The reason being the issue integration...

Business Data Actions Web Part : ========================== Business Data Actions Web part is used to display all “Actions” from the business data catalog application definition file. It displays all actions of an individual item which we are...

Everyone knows how easy it is to use an user control( web service call) in normal ASP.NET application and map it with ObjectDataSource control. But in SharePoint, when ObjectDataSource control is used, it will throw the error "The type specified in the...

Many think that just to get same look and feel for any migrated site, we can directly modify Out of the box style sheet pages to get it done. But, it’s not recommended to modify any Out of the box files in SharePoint. We need to use custom css file to...

Size of Site collection: string siteCollectionURL = “http: //localhost:80/sites/TestSite”; SPSiteAdministration oSPSiteAdministration = new SPSiteAdministration(siteCollectionURL); float scDiskUsage = oSPSiteAdministration.DiskUsed; ...

· BDC Tool Design Surface Error Message : “Could not process Table ‘xyz’. Make sure you have SELECT rights on the Table/VIEW.” Possible Cause : The schema of the database table is Not dbo Resolution : Change the schema of the table to dbo ...

When a large file size ( typically > 1 MB ) is sent as an Email attachment through Workflow, we might see timed out exception.   The exact error message is “System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: The operation has timed out.  at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient...