Several folks asked me about the flowchart of the IE rendering modes that I showed in one of my sessions on GeekReady Asia. I share it here so it is easier for everyone to find it. The flowchart was created by Henri Sivonen . He shared the flowchart in...

If you ask any SQL DBA a question like, “should I turn on Auto Update Statistics and Auto Create Statistics on databases?” You’ll get an answer like, “Yes, definitely!” or probably “ It depends ”. But if we are talking about SharePoint 2010 databases...

The following is a flowchart I drew according to the implementation of this time job.

You may have found that Document ID Service is a very interesting feature. Sometimes you activate it and it just works as expected. But sometimes you activate it and it doesn’t work immediately. A typical example is to activate it on a team site and a...

With the release of the SharePoint 2010 SP1 , we had an interesting discussion about the way we should follow to patch SharePoint 2010. And I just learned several things that I didn’t exactly know before. Let me just share them here. According...

OK. In Part 1 , I’ve explained the problem of “Edit in undefined” when you enable the ECB menu on a field in the document library. To workaround this problem, we have to go back to the way we used for MOSS. In MOSS, when we want to enable the ECB menu...

If you have ever tried to enable the ECB menu on a column other than Name or Title in MOSS 2007, you will love a new feature of SharePoint 2010, Show List Item Menu , like the screenshot below. This feature allows us to enable the ECB menu on almost all...

A month ago, I wrote an article talking about how to create a custom login page for FBA in SharePoint 2010. Since then, I got some enquiries asking whether it is possible to do the same thing for Windows Authentication. So I did some research and created...

In MOSS 2007, how a field is rendered in a list view relies on its <RenderPattern> element which defines the actual CAML that SharePoint can use to render the field. However in SharePoint 2010, the list view rendering system has been changed significantly...

Sandboxed Solution is a cool feature of SharePoint 2010, but as all of us know, not everything can be done with the Sandboxed Solution. For security consideration, Sandboxed Solution has its own CAS to restrict the call to some SharePoint APIs as well...

One thing I am interested in Windows Azure Platform is what this Cloud platform means to SharePoint. I know BPOS is there, and as one part of it, SharePoint Online, provides an option to users who wants to get the SharePoint capability in the public cloud...

The default login page of FBA in SharePoint 2010 is very simple. It only provides a Login control with the user name, password and remember me option. We usually have to create a custom login page to accommodate other security requirements, for example...

The thoughts in this article are from an internal discussion about Linq to SharePoint. Scenario Say I have two site collections, http://sharepoint2010/sites/site1 and http://sharepoint2010/sites/site2 , which are all based on team site template. Now I...

ID4014: A SecurityTokenHandler is not registered to read security token ('EncryptedData', 'http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#'). Here comes the answer of the little quiz in the end of Part 1 . When I clicked SimplePassiveSTS, I was redirected to...

I know there have already been many articles about how to make SharePoint work with ADFS 2.0, like the one from SPIdentity team blog and the one by Eric Kraus. What I want to do is to create a simple IP-STS and make use of it in SharePoint 2010 rather...

Kernel mode authentication as it is described in IIS7: By default, IIS enables kernel-mode authentication, which may improve authentication performance and prevent authentication problems with application pools configured to use a custom identity...

When creating web app in SharePoint 2010, we can only choose to use Windows Authentication if we choose to use Classic mode. If we want to use any other authentication method, like FBA, we much choose to use Claim mode. (Although FBA is able to be selected...

1. In MOSS 2007, Object Cache is enabled by default, and the memory it uses is 100MB. But because this is a site collection level setting, if there are many site collections, the overall performance might be hurt by Object Cache. This is why we always...