Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Dev

  Introduction – Review of Part 1 Wow, nearly a year without writing, time goes way too fast!  In the first article , the objectives were to properly explain the high level terms that are related in deploying SharePoint in the field: Enterprise...

  Introduction SharePoint made its name with collaboration tools that integrates very well with other Microsoft products and is the foremost tools for user adoption.  With SharePoint 2007, Web Content Management capabilities were integrated...

As we know, there’s no direct options to have site metadata with SharePoint.  However, I do often get the question on how to do it, the pros/cons of using a central or local list to each site, etc.  I posted a solution framework a few months...

I was playing with a site template for an Enterprise Wiki that can be exported to DOCX along with some other wiki models for governance.  I kept having issues with the default “Wiki Categories” column which was throwing exceptions when saving a page...

As you can see from my 2 previous posts ( UPS , host-name site collections and search ), I've been toying with Multi-tenancy on SharePoint 2010 and trying out different options. If you don't know about multi-tenancy in SharePoint 2010, go read Spencer...

Following my previous post on search crawl with multi-tenancy, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/maximeb/archive/2010/10/24/configuring-sharepoint-2010-search-for-crawling-host-name-site-collection-tenants.aspx , I found a little bug when synchronizing user profiles...

I’ve been playing with SharePoint 2010 multi-tenancy in the past 2 weeks and I had some issue setting up search so that it can crawl tenants properly. The setup is the following: Services farm with Search, Managed Metadata Services, and User...

  We ran into this problem while setting up some test farms where we’d get an exception while running the powershell for New-SPConfigurationDatabase.  The exception simply mentions “This farm has pending upgrades error” and it would fail. ...

DISCLAIMER: This post is provided AS IS with no warranties and confers no rights.  This is not an official Microsoft solution. In the past couple years, I’ve often gotten the question “how can I effectively find sites (collections) based on enterprise...

DISCLAIMER: This post is provided AS IS with no warranties and confers no rights. This is not an official Microsoft response but rather a view at exploring options with IE6 and SharePoint 2010. Also, my personal opinion is that using IE6 with SharePoint...

I’m working on a model for having Site Collection metadata and was looking at how to have them available to the Index server and found out some way to add META tags with Delegate Controls.  And I also had a customer asking me about how to customize...

Version 1.0 Release date April 15th 2010 SharePoint Artifacts WSP Feature Content Type Field Custom Field File Assembly Site Definition Safe Control Entry Download links Stencil : click me Visio Template : click me Sample : click me All items sample ...

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...

  Current Version 0.1 Release Date April 8th, 2010 Target platform SharePoint 2007 Format Windows Application Download link or click here   So you’ve been developing on SharePoint for some time now.  You’ve followed best practices and developed...

Update July 2010: I created another entry regarding what can work, albeit unsupported, with IE6 : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/maximeb/archive/2010/07/30/what-can-work-with-internet-explorer-6-and-sharepoint-2010.aspx . We all know that IE 6 is not supported...

I ran into a small problem lately where I wanted to install the SharePoint Capacity Planner Tool on either my Windows 7 main OS or one of my virtual box – which are all running Windows 2008 R2 (as a Boot from VHD).  I used to have a Windows 2003...

The last couple years have been very interesting from a collaboration, social, IT, and end-user productivity perspectives.  We have a seen a tremendous growth of unstructured documentation – or the recognition of it – which leads to companies to...

  I ran into a little frustrating issue earlier with my Stand Alone installation on Windows 7 – my account had access to the Central Administration but some options weren’t there (like manage services on server) and others were giving me Access Denied...

I had a mission this week where I wanted to find out how to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7.  I’m currently attending the SharePoint Ignite for Implementers – however, this subject isn’t covered in the sessions so I wanted to test it out at...

I was playing with User Profiles and Search with SharePoint 2010 and I was getting some odd results.  First of all, I would get results from the user’s ‘my sites’, but not actual ‘people’.  By looking at the scopes, I could see that no results...

For those who missed out on the SharePoint Conference and are still looking to view SharePoint 2010 goodies, there will be a good portion of the PDC that will be focused on SharePoint.   Steve Fox has a good post on this here .   Unfortunately...

I have been playing much with 2010 (client and server) lately so it brought me a new problem with 2007!   If you have the Office 2010 CTP client installed and you try to run the SharePoint 2007 Wizard, it will fail quickly on step 2 with the error...

As a follow-up to Chris O’Brien’s posts regarding BlobCache and 304s, which can be found here and here , I wanted to clarify the situation as to when you may have 304s. By default, the Style Library (and Master Pages gallery for that matter) is breaking...

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...

In most if not all scenarios, you will be deploying your files (Page Layouts, Master pages, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) through a Feature.  If you leave them as is, they are called “Uncustomized” and will reference the files on disk.  Any updates...