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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.

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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 to write much.  However, it seems that there was some issues with Content Deployment at work.   Actually, the installation of SP1 and Blackout Read More...
SharePoint Content Deployment Manifest Reader
I ran into some more Content Deployment issues lately and I was going through the manifest (see http://blogs.msdn.com/maximeb/archive/2008/02/19/debugging-content-deployment-issues.aspx for more examples) with some difficulties. First of all, let me give 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...
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...
Central Administration and Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) (issues with Content Deployment and SP1)
A few months ago, I had to debug an issue where Content Deployment was not functioning correctly. As soon as the Import process was starting, we were either experimenting an HTTP 400 error (Bad Request) or a "...this file type is blocked..." error. We Read More...
Real-life Team-Based Development for Web Content Management with SharePoint 2007
It took me a while to come up with everything I needed for this post as I want to make it as accurate as possible with the experience I had on the field. The goal of this post is to provide information on the different ways to work as a team for a WCM 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...
Content Deployment : The URL "Style Library/en-us" is invalid
I came across this error yesterday while testing a Content Deployment for a customer and had this error "The URL "Style Library/en-US" is invalid ..." with the stack trace mentioning that it was updating a File or Folder. The kind of message where you Read More...
My STSADM extension toolbox
Here's a listing of custom STSADM extensions myself and my coworkers have created. Feel free to ask questions regarding the namespaces for these. I'd like to thank those who contributed to this : Stéphane Perron, Louis Fournier, and Vincent Trépanier Read More...
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