Body: ADFS has a feature called Auto Certificate Roll Over which generate a new certificate when the current one nears expiration, when this happens with the Token Signing Certificate all your SharePoint 2010 Claims web applications will start failing...

Body: Wow my first blog post of the year, been a crazy month, I wanted to write this blog post for quite some time, I have been in few large global projects where the program owner goes we need to install every language pack in our farm, it’s a global...

Body: This March, Phoenix Arizona will host the Project Conference 2012 and I will be presenting a session on leveraging Microsoft Project Server 2010 in SharePoint 2010 Extranet Environments. If you currently have deployed SharePoint 2010 Extranet you...

Body: I came across an issue while installing SharePoint 2010 for a customer which prompted this blog post. Like any good SharePoint Pro I only do scripted installs. If you haven’t checked out PowerShell scripts published by SharePoint Product team check...

Body: This one is a short little post, I was looking for a way to use LINQ to query list of external lists created in current web, I didn’t want to enumerate through list collection and check the base template. See the code sample below. Cheers, <...

Body: I have had couple of developers tell me the steps they take to update the safecontrol entry in web.config to avoid the dreaded “Type not registered as safe” error after renaming the namespace, which really prompted me to write this post By default...

Body: I’ve always wished since recycle bin was first introduced in SharePoint 2007 that It would be nice from an Administrator perspective to be able to see recycle bin items aggregated so that they can see how much space is being taken up by recycle...

Body: In the article I will walk through how to use OData, Business Connectivity Services to create a solution for cross site collection list scenarios For the purpose of this article I created a Site Collection in my environment and named it “Shared...

Body: Back about four years ago while working at a customer gig, I created a client side Java Script library which uses AJAX  to talk to lists.asmx for things like retrieving list items, edit, update and delete. Basically client hated the post back model...

Body: This one is a bit overdue post. I came across following error when editing profile properties from the profile page. This error is quite known and there many blog posts and forum threads out there that talks about this issue, but there is one bit...

Body: Thanks for everyone who came out to my session “Understanding Authentication Options in Business Connectivity Services” at SharePointFest. As promised you can grab the session presentation here I will add the recorded videos of all the demos I showed...

Body: Quick Links like Site Directory is deprecated, statements like it was overlooked by product team, with out my site there is no quick links are simply not true (unless you are one of those folks that call my sites and user profiles the same thing...

Body: SharePoint 2010 introduces a very nice feature called Multilingual User Interface (MUI). This allows a logged on user to change the language to one of the supported alternate languages configured by the site administrator. Important thing to keep...

Body: In this post I will walk through additional steps required for getting host named site collections correctly working within a web application that is running in claims mode and configured for SAML token based authentication with ADFS V2. I’m going...

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If you ever wanted to backup documents stored inside of SharePoint with out really backing up content databases, I published PowerShell script to TechNet script repository site a while ago. If you are interested go download it from here http://gallery...

If you are looking to auto create External Lists for all the ECTs defined in your BDC Model, I published PowerShell Script to Scripting Repository site on TechNet  http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/en-us/82437789-f294-4bcd-8210-a1ba0e081f82...

As you are planning security for your SharePoint sites its important to understand the default SharePoint groups, Permissions, Permission Levels etc. I put together a worksheet that will help with this, If you are interested you can download this worksheet...

  I recently had to provide our infrastructure and security team information regarding SharePoint 2010 service accounts, required permissions, database roles and permissions, registry and file system permissions needed etc. I compiled all the info...

Pretty much every enterprise application uses configuration settings of some sort, managing these settings across several environments can be a challenging task. Luckily Patterns and Practices SPG 2010 package provides us plenty of guidance when designing...

  This one is a bit overdue post, if you have been following me on twitter http://twitter.com/rprakashg you probably already know this, I left Microsoft, my last day was Sept 30th and took a Sr. Architect role with Deloitte & Touche in downtown...

  I’m amazed how many people don’t know you have social tagging and bookmarking external sites capabilities in SharePoint 2010. In this article I will show with few simple steps how you can start tagging and bookmarking external sites Browse to your...

Word automation services in SharePoint 2010 provides you a “Save-As” experience on the server which otherwise would have required Office client installed. By default there is no UI integration available and you have to write custom code and use OM to...

A well documented code is always a good thing especially when it comes to maintaining it. I’d like to remind you guys a quote from Rick Osborne “ Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where...

The other day I ran across an error in the new Claims Picker Dialog for a SharePoint 2010 web application configured in Claims Mode. See the screen print below regarding the actual error I was getting Basically the cause for this error was I had the web...