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 hitting the RSS Feed page. We were able to...

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 downsides to this view. Users can probe through the...

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 allowed users to leverage the Picker.aspx page to...

For this scenario, we have a WSP file that was packaged a few years ago and deployed to a production SharePoint 2007 environment. After the original WSP deployment, changes and additional files were pushed out directly to the file system. This brings up a couple concerns: If there was a full DR...