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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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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 goodies, there will be a good portion of the PDC that will be focused on SharePoint.   Steve Fox has a good post on this here .   Unfortunately, Read More...
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 here , I wanted to clarify the situation as to when you may have 304s. By default, the Style Library (and Master Pages gallery for that matter) is breaking Read More...
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 Development is focused on Fields, Content Types, Layouts, Web Parts, Controls, HttpModules Typical environments: The general recommendation is for developers Read More...
Bringing SharePoint Certified Master (MCM) to Canada
On June 1st, I started the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) : SharePoint journey with 16 other candidates from across the world.  I can proudly say today that I successfully met all requirements to pass the first ‘RTM’ SharePoint Master rotation. Read More...
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 didn’t take the time to unpile it much.   Anyhow, I came across this problem again last week with the out of the box Content Editor Web Part (CEWP).  Read More...
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 variations) and we started noticing that the list of sites available in the Create Page is sorted in an odd way.  In fact, it's using neither the creation Read More...
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...
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 deployments. One of the thing we do is to update the Publishing Navigation to hide some sites/pages or simply re-order them correctly. Unfortunately, when you Read More...
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...
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 are missing a property that isn't defined in that source connection. That property could be : Something you can execute by having the username or ID of Read More...
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 looking at making it simple to create multiple webs. While you can use a site definition with a PortalProvisioningProvider to do this, if you have variations, Read More...
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 was the first time that we were allowing properties in the features and I hadn't given much explanation as to how I was seeing the property definition. 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...
(March Update) Site Definition developer helper scripts
The first thing you realize when playing with Site Definitions is that "IISRESET" is your next best friend. However, if you plan on deleting your old site collection and create a new one (to test a RootWeb / Site Collection site definition), it's very Read More...
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