Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Dev
Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for SharePoint 2007 - MCS consultant based in Montreal and working primarily in eastern Canada.
Introduction – Review of Part 1 Wow, nearly a year without writing, time goes way too...
Date: 01/04/2012
Introduction SharePoint made its name with collaboration tools that integrates very well with...
Date: 01/11/2011
As we know, there’s no direct options to have site metadata with SharePoint. However, I do...
Date: 11/26/2010
I was playing with a site template for an Enterprise Wiki that can be exported to DOCX along with...
Date: 11/22/2010
As you can see from my 2 previous posts (UPS, host-name site collections and search), I've been...
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,...
Date: 10/24/2010
I’ve been playing with SharePoint 2010 multi-tenancy in the past 2 weeks and I had some issue...
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...
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...
Date: 08/16/2010
DISCLAIMER: This post is provided AS IS with no warranties and confers no rights. This is not an...
Date: 07/29/2010
I’m working on a model for having Site Collection metadata and was looking at how to have them...
Date: 04/29/2010
Version 1.0 Release date April 15th 2010 SharePoint Artifacts WSP Feature Content Type Field Custom...
Date: 04/15/2010
I read the new article today on the ECM blog entry regarding the new Variations features with...
Date: 04/13/2010
Current Version 0.1 Release Date April 8th, 2010 Target platform SharePoint 2007 Format...
Date: 04/09/2010
Update July 2010: I created another entry regarding what can work, albeit unsupported, with IE6 :...
Date: 03/31/2010
I ran into a small problem lately where I wanted to install the SharePoint Capacity Planner Tool on...
Date: 12/16/2009
The last couple years have been very interesting from a collaboration, social, IT, and end-user...
Date: 10/29/2009
I ran into a little frustrating issue earlier with my Stand Alone installation on Windows 7 –...
Date: 10/28/2009
I had a mission this week where I wanted to find out how to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows...
Date: 10/28/2009
I was playing with User Profiles and Search with SharePoint 2010 and I was getting some odd...
Date: 10/27/2009
For those who missed out on the SharePoint Conference and are still looking to view SharePoint 2010...
Date: 10/27/2009
I have been playing much with 2010 (client and server) lately so it brought me a new problem with...
Date: 10/01/2009
As a follow-up to Chris O’Brien’s posts regarding BlobCache and 304s, which can be found here and...
Date: 08/11/2009
In this first Variation Strategy post, the solution was not the most elegant but the only out of the...
Date: 08/01/2009
In most if not all scenarios, you will be deploying your files (Page Layouts, Master pages, CSS,...
Date: 07/31/2009
Scenario: 5-8 developers WCM portal with lots of sites (SPWeb) and pages, but not a large database...
Date: 07/06/2009
On June 1st, I started the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) : SharePoint journey with 16 other...
Date: 07/02/2009
There is a lot of discussions and articles on SharePoint Variations which contains good arguments on...
Date: 06/21/2009
I was helping a customer yesterday that had an unexplained issue in production, a Web Part was...
Date: 04/01/2009
I had a customer that was having issues setting the anonymous access. While they could access...
Date: 04/01/2009
A few months ago, I came across this issue where the number of returned items in a query wasn’t as...
Date: 03/26/2009
A little while ago, I worked on a performance problem for a WCM portal. We reviewed a lot of...
Date: 03/26/2009
We came across this issue lately where performance was degrading gradually and we couldn’t figure...
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...
Date: 12/23/2008
In a customer deployment, we had several custom Site Definitions to create (because they have...
Date: 08/20/2008
Whoever worked with the BlobCache has wanted to clear it someday (especially when developing or...
Date: 08/13/2008
We have been having this error for quite some time, and very randomly. It's not that the...
Date: 06/17/2008
For the past few weeks, I have been in parental leave (we just had our first baby girl) and unable...
Date: 06/10/2008
Note: This post was made for SharePoint 2007 pre-Infrastructure Update -- while I did use it after...
Date: 05/16/2008
As you probably know if you read my blog, we like to automate as much as we can our WCM portal...
Date: 04/26/2008
I've been looking a little bit more on finding the easiest way to deploy resource files (.RESX) in...
Date: 04/26/2008
So you are importing user profiles from your user data store (Active Directory, LDAP, etc.) but you...
Date: 03/29/2008
This is a follow-up to my Site Definition Helper scripts post. As described in that post, we were...
Date: 03/22/2008
My team ran into this last week where I asked to have some properties available to the feature. It...
Date: 03/08/2008
A couple months ago, when I started reading about Feature Stapling on blogs (I don't recall the MSDN...
Date: 03/08/2008
The first thing you realize when playing with Site Definitions is that "IISRESET" is your next best...
Date: 02/24/2008
Summary As you have noticed, I've changed my latest SharePoint focus to look at Site Definitions...
Date: 02/23/2008
(Last updated June 17th with the Object Reference Not Set to an Instance) SharePoint's...
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...
Date: 02/15/2008
As you probably have read, I ran into a couple issues lately with Content Deployment (Slow with...
Date: 02/13/2008