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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.

February 2008 - Posts

(March Update) Site Definition developer helper scripts
The first thing you realize when playing with Site Definitions is that "IISRESET" is your next best friend. However, if you plan on deleting your old site collection and create a new one (to test a RootWeb / Site Collection site definition), it's very Read More...
Deployment lifecycle when using Site Definitions and Features (including post production day)
Summary As you have noticed, I've changed my latest SharePoint focus to look at Site Definitions (and obviously Features but I played with them a lot prior to this). The reason for this is that I was looking at the "best" way to deploy artifacts for SharePoint Read More...
Debugging Content Deployment issues
(Last updated June 17th with the Object Reference Not Set to an Instance)   SharePoint's Content Deployment feature is a very complex functionality that, unfortunately, does not work all the time.  I've had scenarios where it ran very smoothly Read More...
Site Definition Viewer - a Windows (.NET 2.0) tool to read Site Definition and Features configurations (version 0.1)
I spent a little bit on time understanding Site Definitions lately, particularly the Publishing ones like BLANKINTERNET. One very frustrating thing is to make sense of all the WEBTEMP* configurations, the site definitions, the features, the features dependencies, Read More...
To Content Deployment or not to Content Deployment, that is the question
As you probably have read, I ran into a couple issues lately with Content Deployment ( Slow with SP1? , major/minor versions , AAM on Central Administration , specified file already in used , links not fixed at destination , TCP connection closed , the Read More...
Make sure you test your Content Deployment after installing SP1...
I have been testing WSS/MOSS Service Pack 1 on a large-scale WCM portal for the past couple weeks and I ran into some issues with Content Deployment. First of all, I do not want to say there's necessarily a widespread bug with Content Deployment and SP1 Read More...
Setting Major/Minor versions and Content Deployment issues
Just a quick heads-up when you want to limit versions in a Web Content Management scenario and you have Content Deployment set up. First of all, let me explain why you would like to do this: Basically, if you happen to execute routinely a Full Content Read More...
Beware of SPWebProvisioningProvider when using Variations
I was doing some research lately on how to have a different "Approvers" group depending on business rule. To make it simple, the following statement had to be fulfilled: Pages under subsite "/site1" have to be approved by group "Approvers1" Pages under Read More...
SPWebProvisioningProvider and ApplyWebTemplate on publishing site definition (i.e.: BLANKINTERNET or custom)
While I am planning to soon blog on real life SPWebProvisioningProvider and Site Definitions in regards of Variations & Content Deployment, I wanted to comment on a little issue that had been plaguing me the last couple days. First of all, my goal Read More...
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