You might have seen the similar script in other blogs for migrating users / groups. Here is my contribution for the same requirement. You can use this script for migrating bulk AD users and AD groups in a single shot. I  have created this script...

  Happy New Year – 2012 Recently I had worked with my good friend Bobby on a special requirement for one of his customers. Customer has a SharePoint web application created in the default zone enabled with SSL and the same web application was published...

Overview The SharePoint Code Review is a new service offering from Premier Field Engineering , it provides a detailed look at specific components of your SharePoint custom solution’s source code and makes appropriate recommendations of any issues...

Once we develop any BI applications using PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint we can develop and publich dashobarods, KPIs etc from a client machine using DashBoard Designer. But how can we implement a proper development environment and an integration...

If you ever try to import PerformancePoint content using DashBoard designer and if you are not able to see any content imported or if it errored out then, check the SharePoint server's application event log which is running the PerformancePoint Service...

Recently one of my colleagues faced an issue with LINQ to WebPart while executing the code with elevated permission. It was a WebPart using LINQ to query a list called “Announcements” for which the currently logged on user does not (and should...

In SharePoint 2010 if you want to play with the theme via code it is different than the way it was in MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0. We have to use Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.ThmxTheme class. In this post I will show how we can retrieve all themes for a particular...

Time to patch up…   Aug CU 2010 released, it is very simplified form this time than the June CU 2010. There are full packages available for each product. Check our KB articles for getting more information about what are the fixes available and the...

In this post I am going to walkthrough how we can install language packs on SharePoint Server 2010 to enable the multilingual support. There are excellent TechNet articles available with the details of planning, deployment etc, I will list out most of...

Here is a list of issues and resolutions that I have faced while setting up and configuring SharePoint 2010 environment in different customer environments. Issue 1 : While trying to a create a SharePoint website based on “Business Intelligence” site template...

I was testing SharePoint search feature in my lab machine and found that once I enable anonymous access on my web application and once I search for keyword it was not displaying any content. Instead it gives a message: "We did not find any results...

Recently I was working with a customer to setup their SharePoint 2010 environment and configure user profile service. We have created the service application and both user profile and synch service started successfully. After staring the profile synch...

Recently I had faced an issue with BCS, MetaData and Access Services in my SharePoint environment. Those are the only services that I have checked and not sure about other services, but a single point resolution resolved all those issues. Issue with BCS...

Here is a sample script for writing your custom entries into ULS log. In WSS 3.0 it was little difficult as there was no any direct APIs to do it like in MOSS. But in 2010 version, SharePoint Foundation (WSS 4.0) also has this facility. C# using System;...

Recently I have installed SharePoint Server 2010 on Windows 7 Enterprise edition in my laptop. It is really really cool, you really love it because while working we won’t feel that we are working in server box like in Windows 2003 / 2008 server , because...

If you want to get the default page of a publishing template based sites (or any sites which are enabled publishing features), then can directly get it from the PublishingWeb.DefaultPage Property. But, there is no a direct property or method to get the...

When I started working with SPS 2010 APIs I got a mysterious but common error in my Visual Studio 2010 RC. I was working with a .NET console based application.  As normal I have double checked the URL, user permission, and even tried to create the...

Recently, I had installed SPS 2010 in my laptop which was running with Windows 7. Everything went smoothly until the step 2 in the PS configuration wizard. It failed with an error message says that “user cannot be found”. If we check the logs we can see...

Hello my friends, I thought that to start blogging about SharePoint 2010 with very basics, like creation of the site with host address that configured in the DC, enable SSL, enable Kerberos authentication etc. Being a developer we won’t do these configurations...

Recently I had tried to setup SSL on a SharePoint website. I was using a SharePoint server which was connected to a Domain Controller and the host entries were there in the DC to access my sites. If that is the scenario if we try to use self signed certificate...

Recently we have released a new SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Course on Channel 9 . This training course contains 14 training units covering all aspects of developing solutions on the SharePoint 2010 platform using Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint...

There are so many learning materials are coming for SharePoint 2010…really exciting! Here are some new links of SharePoint conference @ Amsterdam and new Wiki sites. I have joined in the wiki sites, those are really awesome. Plenty of information,...

Recently I had worked with an another interesting case with one of my customers. She has developed a custom webpart to iterate all the files in a SharePoint document library and send that file to a record center, also she want to implement partial trust...

I think this post’s title is little confusing, anyway here is another scenario to play with a List Event Handler. Recently I had worked with one my customers , he had implemented the code to send documents to a record center using SPFile.SendToOfficialFile...

Once I got a requirement to move a list item from one folder location to another within the same list (e.g. move the item to a sibling) while retaining the same ItemID. Example: Here is the original structure... List 1      Folder...