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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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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...
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...
Beware of SPWebProvisioningProvider when using Variations
I was doing some research lately on how to have a different "Approvers" group depending on business rule. To make it simple, the following statement had to be fulfilled: Pages under subsite "/site1" have to be approved by group "Approvers1" Pages under 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...
Small bug preventing from approving in French sites/variations (SharePoint)
One of my co-worker, Philippe Bédard , found a little bug last week that was preventing users to approve images in a French publishing web site. Basically, if you use the "View All Site" and navigate to a library that contains unapproved items, the contextual 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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