I recently flew up to Seattle for work. I drink a lot of water, and when I fly, I typically buy a bottle of water at the airport and take it on the plane so I can put on some music and pretend I’m not stuck on a plane for hours. This time, I decided...

I was recently walking a customer through creating an External Content Type [ECT] that uses stored procedures instead of just pointing directly to a table. When we created an External List using the External Content Type, the list didn’t have the option...

I was recently looking into the impact of increasing the Session State size associated with InfoPath forms. The main reason for the investigation was to allow users to attach files up to 20MB in size to InfoPath forms in SharePoint 2010. InfoPath does...

I was investigating a scenario in which someone was seeing thousands of hits to the destination location of an RSS Viewer Web Part. They had the Feed Refresh Interval set to 120 minutes, and increasing the value did not seem to reduce the number of requests...

Put together a small script that to help automate deployment of a solution.  The script handles the following: Install and Deploy a farm level solution Activate a web application scoped feature Activate a site collection scoped feature The tricky...

When you setup SQL Server Reporting Services [SSRS] in SharePoint Integrated mode , browsing http://servername/ReportServer will show you a directory listing view of SharePoint Site Collections that is security trimmed to you. However, there are some...

Here’s the situation, SSL is setup to terminate at the load balancer.  Sticky sessions are setup as well, so once you hit a particular WFE, your future requests are routed to the same box.  The problem is that there is not an easy way to validate...

This one came as a surprise to me.  Customer pushes out a master page to all their site collections using a solution and feature.  The master page has a server control that renders some information, so the control should have a SafeControl entry...

When you try to connect to a SharePoint 2010 site using Report Builder, you may receive the following error : Connection failed. Unable to connect to the server that is specified in the URL, ‘http://teams.jormanvmas.com/’. Make sure that...

I was recently working through an issue in which I needed to setup the SQL Membership provider to use SHA512 as the hashing algorithm, instead of the default SHA1. For a normal ASP.Net application, you would set the hashAlgorithmType in the web.config...

Took quite a bit of time to track this down. If you change your Central Admin Default Zone Url after configuring the User Profile Synchronization Service, the User Profile Sync will fail.  The UI for the User Profile Service Application will not...

Ran into a problem recently while helping out on a project where web part pages were being dynamically created from a feature receiver.  Once the pages were created, everything works, except for the Title Bar Properties icon in the ribbon. When you...

I have some PowerShell scripts that run PreRequisiteInstaller.exe, Setup.exe, and then configure a farm based on an XML configuration file.  I noticed that if Setup.exe did not prompt for a reboot, that my script would fail with the following error...

When you setup a My Site picture, the URL to the image is stored in your profile under the Picture property.  You can either upload an image into your My Site, or you can type in the URL to an image.  Since the property, by default, has the...

Spent some quality time configuring a SharePoint 2010 Multi Tenant environment.  It’s a really cool feature for hosting scenarios in which you need to ensure client data is isolated at the service application level.  Check out Spencer Harbar...

When you edit a profile in SharePoint 2010, you may be presented with the following error message : There was a problem retrieving data for this field.  Updating values in this field is disabled temporarily. You can still update values in other fields...

Had an issue come up where we wanted to find all the workflows in a SharePoint 2007 environment that were using a certain workflow activity.  Each list has a workflow association collection that tells you the workflows that are configured for the...

Working with an environment where the QA and development machines are in a Test domain, while the production farm and all the primary users are in another domain.  There is a one way domain level trust where the test domain trusts the production...

While working with PowerShell to build out Service Applications, I managed to get my test farm into a state where I no longer had a User Profile Service Application, but the user profile timer jobs were still around.  Trying to create a new User...

While working through an upgrade issue, we had a need to move about 14 Discussion Boards to a subweb.  We initially went the old school route of saving the lists as a template, including the content, then creating lists using the templates. ...

During some upgrade testing, a customer found one of their custom controls not working in the 2010 environment.  They had built out a custom search web part that contained a custom property picker control.  The custom property picker control...

Recently ran into the need to revert a specific web back to the SharePoint 2007 UI after an upgrade to SharePoint 2010.  The main reason for the change was a custom masterpage that was not ready for the 2010 styles and ribbon.  After the UI...

I had a good time patching my SharePoint 2010 Dev VM today and thought I would share.  This is another good reason that you should detach your content databases prior to patching  I started out with my box at RTM SharePoint 2010.  Downloaded...

The SharePoint 2010 out-of-the box People Search Core Results web part in SharePoint 2010 has the ability to sort search results by name.  The option actually sorts FirstName, then LastName…likely because the XSLT displays the names as FirstName...

We were running some load testing on a SharePoint site that will be hosting a company’s portal page.  The page relies heavily on ContentQueryWebParts that have custom XSL files specified .  Before starting the load testing, we were expecting...