In some cases, you may need to copy a file from your local computer to a server, or vice versa, via a remote desktop connection (RDP). In most cases, you can easily do it by exposing your local disks directly to the remote machine. But in some case, this...

Are your users complaining about losing their session in your SharePoint environment? Or do your users complain about being thrown out after a while? This might be the explanation. When the user has entered his credentials, a cookie is returned to...

SharePoint 2010 Search enables you to add search synonyms via XML configuration files on the server. The configuration is well described on TechNet and seems pretty straighforward. There are sample files in the installation, that you can use as a starting...

In Lync and Outlook you can hover over a contact to get a popup showing ways to interact with the person. This is what it looks like in our environment: When hovering over the persons name, you should get the option to view the persons profile page, or...

SharePoint supports adding web.config modifications programmatically. Here is an example from MSDN. Each modification is stored with a web application, and you are able to list them using the following command: $webapp = Get-SPWebApplication http:...

The error "Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'AS'" can occur when you try to run SQL scripts that require SQL Server 2008 on an earlier version of SQL Server. In my case it occurred while installing NewsGator Social Sites. SharePoint 2010 supports SQL...

On virtual machines without internet access it may take 1-2 minutes to start SharePoint Management Shell. The problem is that when loading signed assemblies the .NET Framework checks the Internet based certificate revocation list. The timeout for each...

Both the Event Log and the ULS log are invaluable sources of information when monitoring or debugging your SharePoint solution. Sometimes logging doesn't work. In my experience these are the most frequent reasons: The log disk is full. The application...

In our current project, we were moving an old SharePoint installation to a new farm, As part of this migration, we got a new, nicer DNS name. We wanted to support old users who had bookmarks etc., by doing a redirect. First of all, we configured both...

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....