Working on updating the Designing Hybrid SharePoint Environments whitepaper detailing how to use out of the box features to harmonize On Premises and Office365-S SharePoint environments. We'll be focusing on leveraging O365's new (as of Oct 2011) BCS...

Saw an interesting situation today… in one of my test environments, I set up a User Profile Service, a Web App for MySites, and a MySite Host Site Collection… when I tried to test it out, I was able to access the main MySite page, but I got an “unexpected...

Here’s a  trip down memory lane for those of you still working with SharePoint 2007 going down the SharePoint Designer application development path… I had a request to format a DVDropDownList displaying a date.There’s a lot of posts out there with...

  Here’s a simple task – alter a field in the code behind for an InfoPath 2010 Form. Not as easy as you’d hope. You have to dust off your XML skills get this working.  Here’s some sample code:   XPathNavigator fieldTwo = MainDataSource...

  Receiving the following error: “The form template has been published to the server but it can only be opened in InfoPath Filler. The sandboxed solution could not be activated. The custom code in the form cannot be run. This functionality may be...

Yay! Mobile reading is back! It didn’t show up in the Marketplace Search, but I found it as the first entry in Apps->Books & Reference->New. Highly recommended – no more being bored in lines. Beautiful interface!

Brushing off my coding skills & got stuck for a bit on a failure to autogenerate a Data Grid’s columns. I got plenty of rows, but no columns. The secret is to ensure that your base object has publicly available members. Don’t get lazy and just expose...

Been thinking about this, and as usual, Steve is out in front. Turns out you can use extended claims in web application policies. These are a bit too coarse for most use, but would be a great way to allow people with certain claims such as “Security Admin...

I’m frequently asked about what is supported (or more accurately, what’s not supported) in Microsoft’s BPOS-D SharePoint environment. My first recourse is the BPOS-D bible, also known as the Service Description Document. The BPOS-D 10.3 document is now...

There’s a great calculator posted at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c136c66c-bd4a-4fb1-8088-f610cd02dc51 Perfect for helping communicate storage needs to a DPM team supporting your SharePoint 2010 environment...

  If a scenario involves saving a form to a document library, it is better to submit the form to the library instead of saving it. A Submit operation triggers only one POST request or round trip, whereas a Save operation triggers two POST requests...

  Looking to roll your System Center Operations Manager data into your BI stack? Check out http://www.microsoft.com/business/performancepoint/downloads/default.aspx for info on the ETL (SSIS), Cube Design (SSAS) – it even has T-SQL scripts to speed...

This was a silly mistake on my part, but it drove me crazy… I was debugging a simple workflow that was supposed to start upon item creation or modification. However, when I triggered an event that should have started the workflow, nothing would happen...

SQL Server Deep Dives: fantastic collection of articles by those who know best. I just wish it was available on the Kindle – I hate carrying around such a heavy, but invaluable book. It has one of the better chapters on DB Mirroring that I’ve ever seen...

When trying to access a SharePoint 2007 site, I was unable to access it. As part of my troubleshooting, I opened up IIS (7, the server was running Win Server 2008), and noticed that the site in question was stopped. Trying to start it gave the following...

Here's a new SharePoint 2007 error message. I tried to browse to a site and got the following error: Operation aborted (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80004004 (E_ABORT)) This one turned out to be because the application pool's account had lost (still haven...

Here's a weird one… while trying to set up DB mirroring of a content database colocated with a SharePoint contentDB, I got the following error: "The server network address “TCP://SQLServer:5023″ can not be reached or does not exist. Check the network...

I hit an interesting issue this week trying to integrate with a Sybase ASE 15.x database via a linked server. I managed to properly formulate my provider strings, and I was able to issue queries against most tables. However, one of my queries failed,...

Although the symptoms vary, one of the main culprits is a mismatch between the version of Project Pro on users’ machines and Project Server. For example, if you deploy SP2 on the server, you must ensure that you also deploy the corresponding patch to...

There’s occasions where you’ll find it necessary to reattach a content database containing a PWA site and its associated Project Workspaces. This is essential for Disaster Recovery, migration across farms, or repairing accidental contentDB detachments...

The London Bridge has it’s own twitter feed… http://twitter.com/towerbridge Technorati Tags: Social Networking , Interesting

Using a MOSS built in workflow, like the Approval workflow, and are surprised when it stops sending notifications? Ensure that nobody’s changed the name of the group that receives notifications. Apparently, the workflow uses the Group name as an internal...

How big? I’ve started noticing a lot of DBs (sometimes turning up in embarrassing places) that neglect some pretty easy scaling techniques. An often-looked consideration is designing a table to support efficient indexing. I personally find that, unless...

Create an audit log table (or even better yet, an audit database). It can have a pretty simple structure – I often only have an artificial key, description, and date in mine. Then, when you’re executing a long running script or automated process, you...

Get SQL Server to do the hard work for you, and learn a lot of useful T-SQL while you’re at it. Nearly every operation you can perform with the SQL Server Management Studio GUI can be converted into a T-SQL script. This has a lot of advantages: You can...