I have been writing some blogs entries (and even a Microsoft KB) about c2WTS, but the subject never exhausts. I was helping two different customers to troubleshoot issues with SharePoint Excel Services. In one of the cases the problem happened randomly...

As I have promised in my previous post, I am making available a C++ console application to troubleshoot named pipes endpoints in WCF. Below is a screenshot of the application:   Application logic: It gets the endpoint from the command line and substitute...

If Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) implementation has its own idiosyncrasies, named pipes provider is the champion. First, let’s start with the name of the provider. Named Pipes in Windows can be used to communicate between process on the...

After adding page links to the Top Link Bar of team sites tab, the Home tab (the first one) was not getting highlighted anymore when selected. All other page links added to the Top Link Bar were being highlighted as expected. Some people came out with...

There is no better way of learning something than to observe someone doing it step-by-step. I gathered information from different sources during the beta phase of SharePoint. So my thanks go to Darin Roulston, Eric Adams, Tracy Paddock, Jon Waite and...

I know a large number of people who believe that Claims to Windows Token Service is a SharePoint feature. They are mistaken, c2WTS is part of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) which is one of the pre-requisites for SharePoint. SharePoint indeed relies...

Don’t you hate when you have access denied and you don’t know where it is coming from? It is even worse when it is related to anonymous access where a single detail can prevent a page from being rendered (IIS authentication, broken inheritance, you name...

If you have ever tried to programmatically create a Web Application using Kerberos as authentication provider you noticed that the Authentication Provider resets to NTLM. The cmdlet to create a new Web Application is New-SPWebApplication (or New-SPWebApplicationExtension...

  My friend Yuri Diogenes, one of the security gurus here at Microsoft, in partnership with Jim Harrison, Mohit Saxena and having Tom Shinder as Technical Reviewer released last February the Microsoft Press Administrator’s Companion for Forefront...

I normally talk about SharePoint topics but this post is also important for non-SharePoint people. First let me explain what is the relationship between impersonation and SharePoint, or better, the relationship between SharePoint and the thread [security...

This problem was fixed in KB961175 . The patch will keep the problem from happening again in new lists/libraries you create after applying the patch. However if you have a backup before the patch the restored contents will continue to show the same error...

I had put together an application to perform Load Test in both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. The application as it is now is more “Load” than “Test”. The next step will be to save the results...

There are some occasions in the course of work as Support Escalation Engineer in Microsoft that we rely heavily in analyzing SharePoint metadata. Installing software in a production environment is a no-no for most companies (or at least it requires a...

There are scenarios on which you can access a unique site collection using different URLs even if these URLs are not listed in the Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) of the application. This normally does not cause any problem and even though you should not...

Let's face it, updating Sharepoint is not an easy task. It is true for both Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0. Let's highlight some points: MOST IMPORTANT: MOSS is built on top of WSS and you have to apply...

I had recently faced a problem which I believe other people will face at least once: how to get the context from a URL in a C# Console Application. I needed to use ProfileLoader which requires a context. You cannot get current context when you run an...

WSS and MOSS enable outgoing e-mail configuration and most of the time this configuration is straightforward. As of matter of fact you do not have much to configure as shown below: Figure 1 - Outgoing e-mail settings This same configuration is used for...

In this post we are going to explore User Profiles by extending the Organizational Hierarchy in MOSS. I've posted in Codeplex both installer and code for the Organizational Chart Hierarchy web part. This post will only discuss installation and configuration...

Whomever tried to populate a MOSS (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server) form field using Javascript noticed that it is far from being straightforward. The secret is in the undocumented core.js After a client's request I was able to come up with a not so...