Ram's Blog
SharePoint, Windows Azure, PowerShell, Windows RT development
I’ve moved my blog to https://www.thisdevmind.com. All the posts from this blog has been moved to my...
Date: 06/17/2014
Like most of the developers who always like to run on latest and greatest Microsoft software, I too...
Date: 01/03/2014
One of the things you will notice when working on windows store applications is that there isn’t any...
Date: 10/19/2013
Hope this post doesn’t come across as a rant but just wanted to share the experience I had with...
Date: 10/16/2013
By default when you create Windows Store Application using the Visual Studio project templates,...
Date: 09/19/2013
This post shows how to generate hash using SHA1 algorithm in windows store apps, useful if your app...
Date: 07/10/2013
I recently encountered a windows 8 bug that took me a bit to figure out the exact root cause,...
Date: 07/03/2013
One of the really nice IT Pro features in SharePoint, introduced back in SharePoint Server 2010 is a...
Date: 04/04/2013
This can happen sometimes when service account passwords are changed in AD and Managed Account...
Date: 03/27/2013
Sharing a PowerShell script that I wrote for adding zone user policy for a web application. Function...
Date: 03/08/2013
Windows Azure provides a set of gallery images for us to use when provisioning virtual machines, but...
Date: 03/02/2013
Windows azure provides a feature called Virtual Machines, basically it allows us to provision the...
Date: 02/25/2013
Why Implement CDN for Internet Sites built on SharePoint Keeps the content close to end users who...
Date: 02/19/2013
Body: If you followed the TechNet documentation for Set-SPContentDatabase and try to take SharePoint...
Date: 05/09/2012
Setting Description to null when creating custom SP Groups via code can cause search crawler to fail
Body: Recently was pulled into troubleshooting a search issue at a customer which prompted me to...
Date: 05/08/2012
Body: ADFS has a feature called Auto Certificate Roll Over which generate a new certificate when the...
Date: 02/08/2012
Body: I came across an issue while installing SharePoint 2010 for a customer which prompted this...
Date: 12/12/2011
Body: This one is a short little post, I was looking for a way to use LINQ to query list of external...
Date: 10/09/2011
Body: I have had couple of developers tell me the steps they take to update the safecontrol entry in...
Date: 09/01/2011
Body: I’ve always wished since recycle bin was first introduced in SharePoint 2007 that It would be...
Date: 08/27/2011
Body: In the article I will walk through how to use OData, Business Connectivity Services to create...
Date: 08/18/2011
Body: Back about four years ago while working at a customer gig, I created a client side Java Script...
Date: 08/12/2011
Body: This one is a bit overdue post. I came across following error when editing profile properties...
Date: 08/08/2011
Slides from my SharePointFest Session “Understanding Authentication options in Business Connectivity Services”
Body: Thanks for everyone who came out to my session “Understanding Authentication Options in...
Date: 08/04/2011
Body: Quick Links like Site Directory is deprecated, statements like it was overlooked by product...
Date: 08/01/2011
Body: SharePoint 2010 introduces a very nice feature called Multilingual User Interface (MUI). This...
Date: 06/14/2011
Body: In this post I will walk through additional steps required for getting host named site...
Date: 06/14/2011
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Date: 12/24/2010
If you ever wanted to backup documents stored inside of SharePoint with out really backing up...
Date: 12/15/2010
If you are looking to auto create External Lists for all the ECTs defined in your BDC Model, I...
Date: 12/11/2010
As you are planning security for your SharePoint sites its important to understand the default...
Date: 12/11/2010
I recently had to provide our infrastructure and security team information regarding...
Date: 12/01/2010
Integrating SPG Application settings manager into build process to update environment specific application settings
Pretty much every enterprise application uses configuration settings of some sort, managing these...
Date: 11/25/2010
This one is a bit overdue post, if you have been following me on twitter...
Date: 11/05/2010
I’m amazed how many people don’t know you have social tagging and bookmarking external sites...
Date: 10/28/2010
Word automation services in SharePoint 2010 provides you a “Save-As” experience on the server which...
Date: 10/21/2010
A well documented code is always a good thing especially when it comes to maintaining it. I’d like...
Date: 10/09/2010
The other day I ran across an error in the new Claims Picker Dialog for a SharePoint 2010 web...
Date: 08/17/2010
Couple of weeks ago I was tasked with helping the infrastructure team at my current client to build...
Date: 08/08/2010
I’m wondering why on earth “ImportModelReceiver” class is defined in...
Date: 08/07/2010
I recently came across an issue while working with Business Connectivity Services. When developing...
Date: 07/19/2010
Office Web Applications is one of the coolest features available with Office 2010 and SharePoint...
Date: 05/12/2010
Business Data Connectivity Service in SharePoint 2010 supports two types of files Model (contains...
Date: 02/09/2010
I recently installed Camtasia on windows server 2008 r2 instance and ran into an error when ever I...
Date: 02/09/2010
Last week I had the privilege of presenting at SharePoint Saturday event in Phoenix, If you don’t...
Date: 11/23/2009
I’m sure you guys can probably relate to this, you check in a fix and tester comes back to you and...
Date: 11/06/2009
We have been using Silverlight heavily in my current SP2010 project and here are the things you...
Date: 11/06/2009
In SharePoint 2010 the CustomPages dictionary allows you to replace AccessDenied, Confirmation,...
Date: 11/05/2009
So I ran into an issue while setting up native VHD boot into a windows server 2008 r2 server, native...
Date: 08/30/2009