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

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

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

Date: 10/12/2010

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

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

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

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