There are lots of blogs that talks about how to setup SharePoint 2010 with ADFS v2. I had an opportunity to be tasked to configure SharePoint 2010 to trust CA Site Minder STS. Here are some of my notes: 1. At SiteMinder side, CA people configured a RP...

I encountered the following error in one of the visual webpart: Trying to use an SPWeb object that has been closed or disposed and is no longer valid. If user is given “Manage Web” at the root site then there is no error. Did some research and found out...

I encountered a weird behavior that normal user cannot view the content of a list column with Managed Metadata type. I made sure the user can read the Managed metadata from Central Admin and even give user the permission to edit the list, user can edit...

1. Create an external content types based on web service and make sure the GetList() method is created 2. In Fast Content SSA, create a content source with Content Source Type of “Line of Business Data” and select the name of the Business Connectivity...

Background & Symptoms: There is a SharePoint 2007 large list with over 300,000 items in it Items are arranged into different folder to make sure each folder contains less than 2000 items in it Half of the items need to be set permission to restrict...

Visual Studio 2010 provides a very useful method to help us to package the SharePoint 2010 artifacts and features as package and allow us to hit F5 to debug our code. All is well but sometimes you felt you do not have full control over how the feature...

I dealt with an ASP.NET form that uses AJAX tab container and each tab has several controls. I added a new tab with one textbox and one button to try to save the text into database. The button click event did not fire!!! I have the button on other pages...

The attributes needed to specify to connect to eDirectory are “connectionUsername” and “connectionPassword” as the sample shown below: < add name = " membership " type = " Microsoft.Office.Server.Security.LdapMembershipProvider...

When you code webparts, you really design it carefully and avoid use/expect/demand absolute url in webparts configuration settings, this will make moving from the site from environment to environment less painful and also make it work with AAM. Here is...

Architecture of the medium farm Technorati Tags: MOSS 2007 , Kerberos , Windwos 2008 , NLB Assumption · You have basic knowledge of AD, MOSS and NLB · Windows 2003 Domain name: contoso.com · SQL cluster already installed · 3 servers...

Server virtualization technology has been adopted by more and more companies and some network engineers do not follow Microsoft guideline/best practices to create virtual machine hard disks by simply copy the virtual hard disks and then rename the machine...

I was trying to validate an instance of X12 4010 867 file in VS.NET 2005 IDE and could not get it work correctly using the schema shipped with BizTalk Server 2006 R2. After several tries and struggles, Here is what I did to make it work: 1. You need to...

If you ever need to send out a link of InfoPath form in email and want the link to open the form in browser instead of popup the xml in open/save dialog ... here is the trick: send the link as following: siteUrl/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?xmlLocation=InfoPathFormUrl...

You need to set BDC permission at application level AND also entity level otherwise you would spend lots of time figuring out why you got error like 'You do not have permission to access ...' or 'Unable to connect to ... '

Recently I had to move all databases including the content database in a MOSS 2007 farm from one SQL server to another. I tried few methods and found the following steps are the easiest: [Assumption: All databases in the farm are on one SQL server and...

Run the following script in the content database: SELECT o.[Name] AS 'DatabaseName' , Instance.[Name] AS 'DatabaseInstance' , [Server].[Name] AS 'DatabaseServer' FROM Objects AS o INNER JOIN classes c on c.id = o.classid LEFT JOIN Objects...

This is something off topic ... some experience in Italy. When you purchase certain amount of item in European countries you are entitled to get the 12% VAT tax refund when you leave the last European country ... sounds terrific idea, right? In reality...

Previously, server based BizTalk adapter was used to access MQ Series and that requires MQ series server on Windows as intermediate server between BizTalk Server and non-Windows Queue Managers. In some situation, when installing the MQAgent to Windows...

This is the first time I experience this type mandatory evacuation ... around 6AM this morning, reverse 911 call notified us to evacuate immediately. Sitting in a corp. office at High Bluff Drive offered by my former boss, listening to the AM 600, surfing...

When I use the object model to add item to MOSS 2007 project task list, I have some code like following: const string SitePath = " http://litwareserver:5000"; const string ListName = "ProjectTask"; // enter object model through site collection. SPSite...

While developing WinForm application, if you need to spawn multiple threads to work on different tasks and you need to wait all threads to complete ... then you might think to use the following approach: >>> Create an array of AutoResetEvent...

Symptom: If you have a public facing site built on MOSS 2007 you normally would have two zones defined: default zone that is your local intranet and Internet zone that's your public facing zone. In Alternate Access Mapping, you would put something like...

General do not change identity account of application pool that is used by WSS v3 from ISS mgr, change it from WSS admin site if something needs to be accessible to all sites, deploy to _layout\[yourCompanyName] folder get CAML IntelliSense...