In my current project we have scripted a NewsGator install in a multi-server farm. One of the challenges we faced is that we needed to connect a proxy for the NewsGator Social Platform Services service application. This is very straight forward for the...

We recently had the challenge with showing users a list of the documents they had checked out. This was important to the users, since it is easy to forget which documents you have currently checked out. At first, it seemed trivial to get this via the...

In our test environment several projects deploy solutions to a single farm. Lately we have had some synchronization issues in multi-server farms. We have created a feature for updating web.config files that are used by several projects. The problem is...

Search alerts in SharePoint 2010 is a pretty powerful feature, and enabling it in Enterprise Search is easy; just click “Enable” next to the “Search alerts status” in the in the Search Administration page for a search service application, and you’re good...

There are a ton of third party addons to SharePoint ranging from useful to just fun, from open source communities or commercial providers. The business value from the addon can be very good, but you need to make sure there are no hidden cost. What if...

I'm in a project which supports several, currently nine, languages. Following best practices, we use webtemplates, and bind our content type to the pages library using a content type binding element. This works fine in our development boxes, and...

In SharePoint 2007, upgrading a Web Part to a new version number was a bit complicated. But as Maurice Prather nicely explains in this article , this has become much simpler in SharePoint 2010. Although, due to a small bug, again described by Maurice...

When you send a document to the record center through  the web service officialfile.asmx there is a way to retain and even add more metadata to the file. In our case, we wanted to use the same content type on the team sites as inn the record center...

  Maxime has written a great article on ECM:   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...

A good article on the topic can be found at Mike Taulty’s Blog post Silverlight *versus* HTML5? Really? He gives a short overview, before he goes into a more lengthy detailed discussion on how they complement each other. There are also a lot of comments...

    When creating a new view the “Group by” function does not include “Content type” column. I’m sorry to say that this option will not be available in SP2010. (It is possible to do some work around with SPD, but they will disappear whenever...

PowerGUI is a graphical user interface and script editor for PowerShell. So, PowerGUI is actually two products: PowerGUI, a graphical user interface for executing predefined PowerShell scripts. You can define scripts yourself, or download “PowerPacks...

If you previously worked with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 you probably know a lot about SharePoint Designer already. Probably one big complaint, at least from the operational side for MOSS 2007 was that SharePoint Designer 2007 could be used...

I use my private server for different types of testing, it’s a really a try & fail environment. Some days back I created some new VM’s (I am running a Windows Server 2008 R2 host with Hyper-V enabled) and created an isolated private network that will...

Scripting the deployment of service applications is a good idea; it is predictable, repeatable and gets you control over database names. I found a good script for the Metadata Service Application at Zach Rosenfield ’s blog post SP+PS 2010: PowerShell...

Sometimes when I debug my SharePoint code from Visual Studio, I get the exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException was unhandled   Message=The Web application at http://jl-sp2010/ could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly....

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Microsoft recently published a very useful new article on Technet that lists STSADM operations and their equivalent Windows PowerShell cmdlets. Check it out! .

  I am happy to announce the release of SharePoint Site Configurator Updated for SharePoint 2010 and packed with a lot of new features!   Why Site Configurator? There were three main reasons for creating the Site Configurator feature: 1. In...

The records center in SP2010 is greatly enhanced. With the new content organizer rules you can route records not only to document libraries in the same site, but also to other site collections. Here is a how-to to configure for that scenario. You need...

Are you excited to learn more about SharePoint 2010 but your boss won’t let you go to training? Sign up now for Free the online SharePoint Virtual Conference. My team has been working hard to deliver SharePoint content in a number of formats, such as...

Update: Modified the internal links in this post that didn’t work previously. [Please keep in mind that this applies to a pre-release version of SharePoint Server 2010, and may change before the product is released] Some of the service applications in...

Ever wanted to play and learn at the same time? Officelabs has released a new concept test that takes gaming into the Office applications. This is an add-in for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2007 and 2010. You learn by doing and getting points for your...

From Paul Andrew Today we published a code sample that implements a List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint projects. This is available as sample code that you can reference for your own designers or you can build and use yourself. You...

Gotten tired of finding the ID of a feature? Here they are: DisplayName Title ID Scope SolutionId AccSrvApplication $Resources:AccsrvWss 1cc4b32c-299b-41aa-9770-67715ea05f25 Farm 7ed6cd55-b479-4eb7-a529-e99a24c10bd3 AccSrvMSysAso Access Services System...