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Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Development

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for SharePoint 2007 - MCS consultant based in Montreal and working primarily in eastern Canada.

November 2007 - Posts

Approve and Reject buttons do not appear on a page for Approvers
I came upon that little bug the other where Approvers couldn't see the Approve and Reject buttons on a page (that was waiting for approval). The setup is the following: Active Directory (2003) users The users are part of a global security group in Active Read More...
Required firewall ports for importing Active Directory profiles with MOSS
In very secure environments, your Active Directories may not be completely available to your MOSS machine, especially if you have AD trusts involved. I had a particular case where MOSS was installed in a Win2k3 forest that trusts a very secure Win2k forest Read More...
Incremental content deployment completes successfully with errors mentioning that the name is already is used
I often get the question as to why we have this error when using an incremental Content Deployment: The specified file is already in used . Simply, that message appears if the authors have created a file, deleted it, and recreated another file with the Read More...
Content Deployment does not fix links (at import) when the source has been deployed with features
I ran into this last week when making a spot check on the "content deployment destination", the links and images that were supplied by authors in the Publishing Html fields were still pointing at the "source". It turns out that Content Deployment doesn't Read More...
Slow Content Deployment transportation / TCP connection was forcibly closed
We were having issues with slow Content Deployment for the transporting phase and it was sometimes failing with this error: Publishing: Content deployment job failed. Error: 'System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected Read More...
BlobCache woes, how to work (clean) correctly with it, and what to expect when using it with SharePoint features
I ran into an issue with BlobCache lately where it was sending incorrect Http headers. Basically, all files were sending 2 http headers: Exires : (15 days behind) cache-control: private, max-age=0 Yes, "exires", not "expires", so not only we have a bug Read More...
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