Michael Yeager's MSDN Blog
SharePoint, ECM, WCM, BI and Big Data
Use the SetFormsServiceProperty operation as follows: stsadm -o setformsserviceproperty -pn...
Date: 12/01/2008
Much used reprinting of list of fields with internal names for easy reference: Document Library...
Date: 11/03/2008
Working on a project with some very large InfoPath forms (700+ fields with hundreds of rules and...
Date: 07/17/2008
When you load an InfoPath form, it is cached in the following location on your machine: C:\Documents...
Date: 07/09/2008
Variations is a potentially great MOSS feature. Variations are obviously useful for multi-lingual...
Date: 06/04/2008
I have found that the following two issues can be critically important when architecting a catalog...
Date: 06/03/2008
If you are going to create custom content types and custom layout pages, then for Variations...
Date: 05/08/2008
There is more info on Content Deployment issues in earlier blog entries here. The main thing is to...
Date: 05/07/2008
Maybe I'm missing a hotfix or something, but SharePoint Designer seems to have a lot of problems...
Date: 05/06/2008
Particularly when working on a MOSS Web Content Management site, you may find the need to go to the...
Date: 05/06/2008
When you have Quick Deployment job, and you edit a page and add it to Quick Deployment, the job...
Date: 05/06/2008
Was able to work through an interesting content deployment issue on a medium SharePoint farm with...
Date: 04/08/2008
As of February 11, 2008, there is a version 1.1 of the SharePoint Visual Studio tools that can be...
Date: 02/28/2008
Version 1.3 of the WSS v3 SDK can be downloaded here:...
Date: 02/28/2008
For localization in SharePoint to work, a particular site must be created specifying the designated...
Date: 02/05/2008
Been working on multilingual for a few clients, and recently did a quick survey of public MOSS07...
Date: 02/05/2008
This is one of those extremely useful little tidbits that doesn't seem to be all that well...
Date: 01/08/2008
Memory usage is a big deal when you are deploying new web parts or applications - mainly because you...
Date: 12/05/2007
The terms Ghosted, Unghosted and now Reghosted are very difficult to keep straight, and you'll find...
Date: 11/03/2007
Note: This blog is a work in progress, I will be adding tips as I work through various issues....
Date: 11/01/2007
The method for updating the application.master that I wrote about back in July has been officially...
Date: 10/31/2007
You'll recall that back in Blog 4 of this series we created the following hierarchy of virtual hard...
Date: 10/22/2007
This very interesting white paper goes over, in detail, the types of customizations that are...
Date: 10/19/2007
If you hit a default page and it throws an error and you're kind of stuck as to what to do next, try...
Date: 10/18/2007
Parts 1 to 8 of this series are in the August archive. NOTE: we're having problems with specifying a...
Date: 10/16/2007
OK, this goes under silly things that should be obvious but... My SharePoint nav widget is not...
Date: 10/15/2007
Cannot convert type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.DelegateControl' to 'System.Web.UI.IAttributeAccessor'
Unfortunately I have seen this error too many times. In my case it is regarding a SharePoint master...
Date: 10/05/2007
A note to all those running SPS03 - if you use Site Directories for creating team sites, and you've...
Date: 10/03/2007
The upgrade documentation implies that "most v2 web parts" will simply work in SharePoint v3. You...
Date: 08/24/2007
As with the Master Page, there are many different ways to put together and deploy a new List such as...
Date: 08/24/2007
There are many ways to create and add a custom Master Page to a SharePoint site, site collection,...
Date: 08/24/2007
If you are setting up a 32 bit SharePoint farm, do not turn on the /3GB switch. If you have custom...
Date: 08/23/2007
What will happen at this point if you just Run Prescan and start Upgrading Sites without adding v3...
Date: 08/16/2007
Before starting to install MOSS on the vpc, add a Differencing Disk - that will be referred to as...
Date: 08/16/2007
Putting together a base Virtual PC for running and "perfecting" the upgrades prior to working on QA...
Date: 08/09/2007
I have already prepared a couple of SPS03 VPCs and run the Gradual Upgrade on a number of sites with...
Date: 08/09/2007
I am in the process of upgrading a smaller SPS03 portal installation to MOSS 2007. This is in...
Date: 08/09/2007
Installing Business Objects .Net Web Component Adapter under a MOSS 2007 web application requires...
Date: 07/12/2007
I accidentally installed Visio 2003 on my corporate pc - because the title on the disc just says...
Date: 07/12/2007
I am in the process of migrating some Portals from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 for a client. The custom...
Date: 07/11/2007
Just a short note on the SharePoint Solution Generator - which is a great little tool! If you don't...
Date: 06/29/2007
When the ProcessVelocity project began a little over a year ago as Approval Manager, it would never...
Date: 02/01/2006
Every development effort of any complexity will pursue a folly or two at some point during the...
Date: 01/11/2006
As some of you know, I have been spending a lot of my spare time lately working on the...
Date: 01/10/2006
Developers/architects of software applications generally think of those applications as tools. Tools...
Date: 01/04/2006