I read the new article today on the ECM blog entry regarding the new Variations features with SharePoint 2010, found at http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2010/04/12/variations-in-sharepoint-2010-connecting-people-with-content.aspx , and I’m very happy. First of all, I had seen the new timer jobs and...

In this first Variation Strategy post , the solution was not the most elegant but the only out of the box one.  The main problem I’m facing with customers is that they simply want variations on ItemCreated only.  They do not care about updates done in the original language as to their impact...

There is a lot of discussions and articles on SharePoint Variations which contains good arguments on why the feature isn’t all what it’s prepped up to be.  This will not be a post to debate whether they are useful or not but merely how to make them more useful than what I see in the field. Update...

As you probably know if you read my blog, we like to automate as much as we can our WCM portal deployments. One of the thing we do is to update the Publishing Navigation to hide some sites/pages or simply re-order them correctly. Unfortunately, when you have variations and you want to automate this for...

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 WCM portals. While I had a very good working...

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 subsite "/site2" have to be approved by group "Approvers2...

We ran into a little issue the other day when using an account with only Member rights (yes yes, we are usually admins :)), we were creating a page for the first time in a sub-site and we were receiving a beautiful stack trace of nothingness. We refreshed the page and it was working fine, the page was...

One of my co-worker, Philippe Bédard , found a little bug last week that was preventing users to approve images in a French publishing web site. Basically, if you use the "View All Site" and navigate to a library that contains unapproved items, the contextual menu will show a "Approve" button. This button...

Here's a listing of custom STSADM extensions myself and my coworkers have created. Feel free to ask questions regarding the namespaces for these. I'd like to thank those who contributed to this : Stéphane Perron, Louis Fournier, and Vincent Trépanier at Orckestra , an outstanding partner for SharePoint...

A little while ago, we ran into an issue with the Variation label creation process; it was ending successfully without creating everything. To make matters worst, it wasn't picking the missing sites/pages with the Synchronization Timer Job. So it was very difficult to figure out what was missing in a...