Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Dev

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

Making sense of a multi-workload ECM SharePoint installation, Part 2, Planning

  Introduction – Review of Part 1 Wow, nearly a year without writing, time goes way too...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 01/04/2012

Making sense of a multi-workload ECM SharePoint installation, Part 1, Concepts

  Introduction SharePoint made its name with collaboration tools that integrates very well with...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 01/11/2011

A graphical summary of site metadata options for SharePoint

As we know, there’s no direct options to have site metadata with SharePoint.  However, I do...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 11/26/2010

Small bug with Customize your term site columns

I was playing with a site template for an Enterprise Wiki that can be exported to DOCX along with...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 11/22/2010

Don't do SharePoint multi-tenancy without claims-based authentication

As you can see from my 2 previous posts (UPS, host-name site collections and search), I've been...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/24/2010

SharePoint 2010 multi-tenants and User Profiles Services : do not sync profiles before adding at least one tenant!

Following my previous post on search crawl with multi-tenancy,...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/24/2010

Configuring SharePoint 2010 search for crawling host-name site collection tenants

I’ve been playing with SharePoint 2010 multi-tenancy in the past 2 weeks and I had some issue...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/23/2010

This SharePoint farm has pending upgrades error when running New-SPConfigurationDatabase for a new SharePoint 2010 installation

  We ran into this problem while setting up some test farms where we’d get an exception while...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/12/2010

Adding metadata to your site collection for a complete, secure, refinement-enabled site directory on SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010

DISCLAIMER: This post is provided AS IS with no warranties and confers no rights.  This is not...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 08/16/2010

What can work with Internet Explorer 6 and SharePoint 2010

DISCLAIMER: This post is provided AS IS with no warranties and confers no rights. This is not an...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 07/29/2010

Using Delegate Control to customize My Sites

I’m working on a model for having Site Collection metadata and was looking at how to have them...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 04/29/2010

SharePoint Visio Stencil and Template for designing solution packages (WSP) and features

Version 1.0 Release date April 15th 2010 SharePoint Artifacts WSP Feature Content Type Field Custom...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 04/15/2010

Finally, SharePoint Variations propagation doesn’t have to erase all labels!

I read the new article today on the ECM blog entry regarding the new Variations features with...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 04/13/2010

SharePoint 2007 Feature Activator and Manager

  Current Version 0.1 Release Date April 8th, 2010 Target platform SharePoint 2007 Format...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 04/09/2010

What SharePoint 2010 looks like with Internet Explorer 6

Update July 2010: I created another entry regarding what can work, albeit unsupported, with IE6 :...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 03/31/2010

Installing the System Center and SharePoint Capacity Planner on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2

I ran into a small problem lately where I wanted to install the SharePoint Capacity Planner Tool on...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 12/16/2009

Upgrading your enterprise to Office clients to 2010 – performance incentives

The last couple years have been very interesting from a collaboration, social, IT, and end-user...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/29/2009

Little Central Administration Security Bug with SharePoint 2010

  I ran into a little frustrating issue earlier with my Stand Alone installation on Windows 7 –...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/28/2009

Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7

I had a mission this week where I wanted to find out how to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/28/2009

Error in PortalCrawl Web Service when crawling people with SharePoint 2010

I was playing with User Profiles and Search with SharePoint 2010 and I was getting some odd...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/27/2009

Missed out on SharePoint Conference? SharePoint will be at the PDC!

For those who missed out on the SharePoint Conference and are still looking to view SharePoint 2010...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/27/2009

One or more types failed to load error when using the SharePoint 2007 Wizard

I have been playing much with 2010 (client and server) lately so it brought me a new problem with...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/01/2009

BlobCache, Style Library, and anonymous users

As a follow-up to Chris O’Brien’s posts regarding BlobCache and 304s, which can be found here and...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 08/11/2009

Variation Strategy #2 to remove label overwrites – cancel updates!

In this first Variation Strategy post, the solution was not the most elegant but the only out of the...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 08/01/2009

Reapplying changes from a customized file originally deployed through features

In most if not all scenarios, you will be deploying your files (Page Layouts, Master pages, CSS,...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 07/31/2009

Experiences on using a single farm for developers (WCM)

Scenario: 5-8 developers WCM portal with lots of sites (SPWeb) and pages, but not a large database...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 07/06/2009

Bringing SharePoint Certified Master (MCM) to Canada

On June 1st, I started the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) : SharePoint journey with 16 other...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 07/02/2009

Variation strategy to reduce labels overwrite

There is a lot of discussions and articles on SharePoint Variations which contains good arguments on...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 06/21/2009

Extending a Web Application will redeploy your solutions ... watch for manual GAC updates

I was helping a customer yesterday that had an unexplained issue in production, a Web Part was...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 04/01/2009

Non-extended public AAM will not allow you to set anonymous access

I had a customer that was having issues setting the anonymous access.  While they could access...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 04/01/2009

Content By Query issue with audiences filtering

A few months ago, I came across this issue where the number of returned items in a query wasn’t as...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 03/26/2009

Follow-up and solution to the serious performance issue with multiple audiences

A little while ago, I worked on a performance problem for a WCM portal.  We reviewed a lot of...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 03/26/2009

Multiple audiences on a targeted content may lead to Page Output Cache flush

We came across this issue lately where performance was degrading gradually and we couldn’t figure...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 02/03/2009

Fixing absolute URLs for all Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) of Content Editor Web Part with a Control Adapter

Hi everyone and sorry for the no-post for several months.  My ‘Draft’ list keeps piling but I...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 12/23/2008

How to sort the list of sites in the Create Sites page

In a customer deployment, we had several custom Site Definitions to create (because they have...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 08/20/2008

How to really clear the BlobCache on all servers in the farm

Whoever worked with the BlobCache has wanted to clear it someday (especially when developing or...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 08/13/2008

Content Deployment and Object Reference Not Set to an Instance

We have been having this error for quite some time, and very randomly.  It's not that the...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 06/17/2008

The power of deleting Content Deployment Jobs & Paths

For the past few weeks, I have been in parental leave (we just had our first baby girl) and unable...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 06/10/2008

SharePoint Content Deployment Manifest Reader

Note: This post was made for SharePoint 2007 pre-Infrastructure Update -- while I did use it after...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 05/16/2008

Updating site parameters using the API may freeze the variation job

As you probably know if you read my blog, we like to automate as much as we can our WCM portal...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 04/26/2008

Deploying resource files across a farm

I've been looking a little bit more on finding the easiest way to deploy resource files (.RESX) in...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 04/26/2008

Computed profile property with BDC and Web Services

So you are importing user profiles from your user data store (Active Directory, LDAP, etc.) but you...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 03/29/2008

Creating SharePoint webs with Excel and STSADM

This is a follow-up to my Site Definition Helper scripts post. As described in that post, we were...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 03/22/2008

Feature properties, web.config, and feature properties inheritance

My team ran into this last week where I asked to have some properties available to the feature. It...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 03/08/2008

Feature Stapling is really just for out of the box site definitions

A couple months ago, when I started reading about Feature Stapling on blogs (I don't recall the MSDN...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 03/08/2008

(March Update) Site Definition developer helper scripts

The first thing you realize when playing with Site Definitions is that "IISRESET" is your next best...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 02/24/2008

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...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 02/23/2008

Debugging Content Deployment issues

(Last updated June 17th with the Object Reference Not Set to an Instance)   SharePoint's...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 02/18/2008

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...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 02/15/2008

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...

Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 02/13/2008

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