I recently worked with some of the best services guys inside Microsoft to develop this whitepaper on guidance around modifying pre-defined content types. We saw lack of such guidance and some customers facing issues because of going down wrong path. Please...

I spent almost 10 hours yesterday to figure out how to run SharePoint unit tests using VS 2010 and how to get code coverage reports. There is nothing new which I have invented in this process but I felt this information is right now scattered . I'm putting...

There are series of best practices articles published on TechNet. I got the privilege of working with some very smart folks while developing these. These articles talk about things under each workload which will help you to design and operate a enterprise...

Before reading this post I would request you to first read my following posts for moving TermStore from one environment to another and support available in Windows PowerShell commands. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/taj/archive/2011/01/11/site-collection...

I recently saw an email on internal DL about things not working if you backup and restore site collection from one Farm to another. The team was using Managed Metadata in some list columns. These are scenarios where you want to move content from one environment...

I did a radio show last month with SharePoint Product Manager Bill Baer which went live yesterday. We talked about how BCS throtlling is different from large list throttling and what things one should be careful about. You can get the podcast at below...

Today I was doing some research and troubleshooting issue while using Content Deployment used with Managed Metadata Service(MMS). I was moving MMS Term Store from Author to Production Farm using the Windows PowerShell command Import-SPMetadatawebservicePartitionData...

I configured my Farm with Central Administration running on SSL port 443. There are couple of issues I have run into with this configuration and want to share with community. My SP build version is 14.0.4762.1000 . Problem while running User Profile...

In this scenario we will evaluate implementing tags and note boards on a site which is target of content deployment, i.e. where content is deployed by content deployment job. Problem Statement Many organizations have requirement to implement...

Searching External Systems using SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) within throttling limits Summary: Learn how to use SharePoint Server 2010 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) feature to search content in external system when the...

Yesterday was the launch day of the one of the best version of Office including SharePoint. Now the time has started for everyone in the field to get started and start creating creative solutions based on that. With the launch came the launch of my...

Ok guys, this is a new feature which I came across while exploring BCS. BCS now supports getting BLOBs into SharePoint and provide many features which help in pulling and streaming BLOB's out to end user. The work which I did on this has been published...

While browsing through BCS documentation came across this section on how to design models for connecting to Oracle. What is the support in tools to design and how to do it. Hope you will find it useful http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff464424...

I’m writing this post as lot of people seem to have some misunderstanding how the BCS Client Object Model works. BCS client object model is different from SharePoint Client Object Model. It comes as a part of Office Professional Pro SKU and contains classes...

If you are creating and external list via code or CAML and need the type id( the Int32 value for list types) , then the Id for External List is 600. This corresponds to value used by SPListTemplateType Enumerations. For values of all list types, refer...

As always whenever I find something which is small but useful, I do end up blogging about it. Yesterday, I had a strange issue with my BCS metadata model. I created an IdEnumerator against AdventureWorks database and written a query to get SalesOrders...

I just prepared list of features/functionality which are unavailable in BCS. This can be because of technical issues that comes with implementing External Data features and since data is residing in systems which are not in control of SharePoint. Here...

Yesterday I was re-creating my farm and ran into an interesting issue with BCS client functionality. I was deploying Microsoft Office and used Professional version of the build. I have an Excel Add-In project which was working fine before I redeployed...

I am a lazy writer and always try to share something which I find when learning new stuff as small posts. Recently, I was trying to setup Social Computing feature in SharePoint and was having trouble seeing the status updates from other people on My Network...

"The server must be running MOSS2010 to synchronize external list with SharePoint workspace" I have faced this issue both in Escrow and Beta builds so thought to share it with others to make it easier. If you get the error message or having issues...

Eric shared the xml schema to provision an external list using features. I believe everyone will find it useful so sharing it. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8 "?> <Elements xmlns= " http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/ " > ...

As all of you guys must have seen by now that BCS let's you use BCS OM from client Office applications like Outlook/SharePoint Workspace etc. One interesting scenario which comes up is how things will behave when external system will be accessed using...

Summary: Learn how to dynamically change master pages in a SharePoint publishing site on the fly. Introduction to Master Pages in SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides flexible support for publishing sites and features...

Learn how to setup BCS External List and interact with external system using client OM...

The most exciting release in SharePoint history has been introduced to the general community at SharePoint Conference 2009. The product has host of new features around scalability, maintainability, social and all and all a great enterprise product. Sneak...