SharePoint Designers allows to create a data source based on a web service, and then use this data source in a page. Let’s say you want to display search results in a page. To do so you can use the QueryEx method of the search.asmx web service. This method...

Symptom Under certain condition, you may see this error message when you try to start the FIM Synchronization Service: UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS: Failed to configure ILM, will attempt during next rerun. Exception: System.Security.SecurityException...

SharePoint SP2 has introduced the systematic redirection to the MySite when you display the details of a user. In most scenarios this does not have any impact, but some companies don’t use the MySite and in such a case redirection needs to be deactivated...

Version française . SharePoint workflow functionality comes with a set of specific activities and events to leverage SharePoint specific actions. One of them is OnWorkflowItemChanged, designed to fire when item which started the workflow was modified...

Version française . Both RichHtmlField control and content editor webpart allow you to write content in SharePoint 2007 more or less with the same experience than you would have with Word. One good feature is the ability for administrators to create predefined...

Consider the following scenario: As a site collection administrator, you use object model to get SPListItem.ForwardLinks in a page that has been propagated in a target site with variations sytem. The page version is at least 1.1. As a result, you...

Consider the following scenario: You develop a webpart using AJAX that works fine with SharePoint default masterpage (default.master), but as soon as you use a different masterpage, for example blueband.master, asynchronous postbacks do not work anymore...

Administrator approved InfoPath forms templates are managed in central administration website and can be activated on each site collections. To do this, SharePoint requires that administrator has full permissions on the site collection. This is often...

It's not obvious to understand key differences between a backup and an export. Although they are both designed to backup data, they work completely differently. Stsadm –o backup/restore With the URL and filename parameters, it allows you to backup either...

There are some scenario requiring utilisation of psconfig.exe command line tool instead of the graphical psconfigui wizard. More information on psconfig.exe: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263093.aspx . For example, if you want to use...