The first thing you realize when playing with Site Definitions is that "IISRESET" is your next best friend. However, if you plan on deleting your old site collection and create a new one (to test a RootWeb / Site Collection site definition), it's very...

Summary As you have noticed, I've changed my latest SharePoint focus to look at Site Definitions (and obviously Features but I played with them a lot prior to this). The reason for this is that I was looking at the "best" way to deploy artifacts for SharePoint...

(Last updated June 17th with the Object Reference Not Set to an Instance)   SharePoint's Content Deployment feature is a very complex functionality that, unfortunately, does not work all the time.  I've had scenarios where it ran very smoothly...

I spent a little bit on time understanding Site Definitions lately, particularly the Publishing ones like BLANKINTERNET. One very frustrating thing is to make sense of all the WEBTEMP* configurations, the site definitions, the features, the features dependencies...

As you probably have read, I ran into a couple issues lately with Content Deployment ( Slow with SP1? , major/minor versions , AAM on Central Administration , specified file already in used , links not fixed at destination , TCP connection closed , the...

I have been testing WSS/MOSS Service Pack 1 on a large-scale WCM portal for the past couple weeks and I ran into some issues with Content Deployment. First of all, I do not want to say there's necessarily a widespread bug with Content Deployment and SP1...

Just a quick heads-up when you want to limit versions in a Web Content Management scenario and you have Content Deployment set up. First of all, let me explain why you would like to do this: Basically, if you happen to execute routinely a Full Content...

I was doing some research lately on how to have a different "Approvers" group depending on business rule. To make it simple, the following statement had to be fulfilled: Pages under subsite "/site1" have to be approved by group "Approvers1" Pages under...

While I am planning to soon blog on real life SPWebProvisioningProvider and Site Definitions in regards of Variations & Content Deployment, I wanted to comment on a little issue that had been plaguing me the last couple days. First of all, my goal...