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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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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 the App_GlobalResources directory and I found various solutions that includes Features and Timer Jobs to synchronize these resource files. Mikhail Dikov Read More...
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 documentation having been updated at the time but it is now), not only did I think that it was a mechanism to attach a feature to a site definition (it's 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...
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...
Missing Content Types association with variations - an STSADM extension solution
I ran into an issue the other day where all content for most pages where missing when viewing a "target variation" (I define a variation as "target" when it's not the source variation). After taking a closer look, we could see the titles and description, Read More...
You receive an error when you create a page, as a SharePoint Member, for the first time in a sub-site
We ran into a little issue the other day when using an account with only Member rights (yes yes, we are usually admins :)), we were creating a page for the first time in a sub-site and we were receiving a beautiful stack trace of nothingness. We refreshed Read More...
Programmatically create a site lookup column in SharePoint
We have automated almost everything about creating a "blank" publishing web site with landing pages, navigation parameters, even content pages. One thing we found out with Features or even code is that you cannot create a list with its GUID; it will be 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...
Listing all sites per variations - an STSADM extension solution
A little while ago, we ran into an issue with the Variation label creation process; it was ending successfully without creating everything. To make matters worst, it wasn't picking the missing sites/pages with the Synchronization Timer Job. So it was Read More...
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