There are various options for implementing a multi-lingual intranet. Variations and the out-of-the-box multilingual user interface (MUI) are some of these options. However to improve the user experience quite often we also need some custom development...

If you’re interested in learning how to automate the provisioning of a SharePoint 2010 farm with all its required server roles, service applications and web applications please come to TechDays 2011 in Bern/Switzerland. On October, 20 th 2011 together...

Now that service pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 is there you might want to integrate it also into the installation process of a new environment. As it is recommended for a SharePoint Server installation to install the SharePoint Foundation SP1 and the SharePoint...

By now you’ve probably got the news that SP1 for SharePoint 2010 has arrived. You can download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26623 After installing the service pack you run: psconfig.exe –cmd upgrade –inplace b2b –wait...

While running a SharePoint 2010 machine in a Hyper-V environment is not a bad option I found an even better setup for a SharePoint 2010 development machine: a VHD Boot If you’re running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 you can boot into a virtual hard...

You’re trying to use the SharePoint 2010 server side API’s but you’re getting the exception: The Web application at http://... could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system...

Some days ago I just wanted to create a new virtual machine on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V laptop. After booting up that new machine from an .iso image and trying to connect using the “Virtual Machine Connection” (vmconnect.exe) application I got...

Using Windows 7 there’s an easy way to integrate search results from various search engines into the windows explorer. By default the “Favorites” group only has entries for “Desktop”, “Downloads” and “Recent Places”: To add a new “Favorite” to that...

Have you ever tried implementing a MOSS based public internet site which creates HTML code without <TABLES>? Are you looking for some guidance about how to implement an AA standard compliant accessible web site which can be read by screen readers...

Last week we've migrated content from one farm to another using stsadm –o export / import. The export of the 2GB Content DB took around 2 hours. The import of that content into the new farm took around 5 hours. During that import process we found a nice...

With the default behavior of a SharePoint page the core.css is rendered always as the last stylesheet. This is implemented using the control: <Sharepoint:CssLink runat="server"/> Using this control the style sheets will render like this: ...

In MOSS there are three different types of caching available: Output caching BLOB Cache Object Cache You can find a very detailed description about these three options here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/11/08/how-to-make-your...

If you find this event: Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administratin.SearchServiceInstant <guid> Could not find file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS" In your event logs...

One of the requirements for the implementation of www.swiss.com was supporting several countries with their languages and showing local content on the homepage for each individual country. The red box in the following screenshot marks this area for the...

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Let's start with a discussion about why you would need a custom filed control? Well let's have a look at this page. On this page you can find several offers (in the red box). These offers are simply a list with the destination, price and a url. ...

In December of 2006 swiss international airlines invited us to present the new Web Content Management functionality of MOSS2007. The idea was to use MOSS2007 for the re-launch of their public internet site www.swiss.com . Here's a high-level overview...

Hi there My name is Thomas Palmié and I'm a Principal Consultant working for Microsoft Consulting Services in Switzerland. I'm focusing on Information Worker solutions around Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and the Office clients. In...