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The last couple years have been very interesting from a collaboration, social, IT, and end-user productivity perspectives. We have a seen a tremendous growth of unstructured documentation – or the recognition of it – which leads to companies to
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I ran into a little frustrating issue earlier with my Stand Alone installation on Windows 7 – my account had access to the Central Administration but some options weren’t there (like manage services on server) and others were giving me Access Denied.
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I had a mission this week where I wanted to find out how to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7. I’m currently attending the SharePoint Ignite for Implementers – however, this subject isn’t covered in the sessions so I wanted to test it out at
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I was playing with User Profiles and Search with SharePoint 2010 and I was getting some odd results. First of all, I would get results from the user’s ‘my sites’, but not actual ‘people’. By looking at the scopes, I could see that no results
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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,
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I have been playing much with 2010 (client and server) lately so it brought me a new problem with 2007! If you have the Office 2010 CTP client installed and you try to run the SharePoint 2007 Wizard, it will fail quickly on step 2 with the error
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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
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In this first Variation Strategy post , the solution was not the most elegant but the only out of the box one. The main problem I’m facing with customers is that they simply want variations on ItemCreated only. They do not care about updates
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In most if not all scenarios, you will be deploying your files (Page Layouts, Master pages, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) through a Feature. If you leave them as is, they are called “Uncustomized” and will reference the files on disk. Any updates
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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
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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.
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There is a lot of discussions and articles on SharePoint Variations which contains good arguments on why the feature isn’t all what it’s prepped up to be. This will not be a post to debate whether they are useful or not but merely how to make them
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I was helping a customer yesterday that had an unexplained issue in production, a Web Part was behaving as if it had rolled back its code. As it turns out, the following happened: WSP containing DLLs to install in the GAC was deployed some time
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I had a customer that was having issues setting the anonymous access. While they could access the http://contoso/_layouts/setanon.aspx page, they couldn't actually see the link to that page when navigating to the Site Permissions. When they were
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A few months ago, I came across this issue where the number of returned items in a query wasn’t as expected. Context with normal queries To contextualize, let’s say you have a home page with several articles section which are in turned served by Content
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