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Post on Sharepoint, WCF, WIF and C#
This post is a continuation of this previous post. It is also an extension of KB4465015. The video...
Date: 10/12/2018
After installing .NET security patches to address CVE-2018-8421, SharePoint workflows stop working (KB 4457916/4457035 and others)
*** FINAL UPDATE VI *** SharePoint CUs are out The Nov 2018 SharePoint CUs The SharePoint with fixes...
Date: 09/13/2018
Symptom When using a Search Center with anonymous access, click statistics do not compute correctly...
Date: 03/28/2018
Leveraging the new Time Travel Trace API in Debugging tools to find when one or more SharePoint event happened
In my previous post, I showed a proof-of-concept script to list all occasions a process opened a...
Date: 03/27/2018
WinDbg Preview a.k.a. WinDbgX aesthetically looks like a marriage between Visual Studio (VS) and...
Date: 03/08/2018
After updating SharePoint 2013 to November 2017 CU or later you may not be able to open documents with Office
*** UPDATED TO INCLUDE Stefan Gossner and Adam Soreson's INPUT *** Symptom After updating SharePoint...
Date: 12/05/2017
SharePoint 2013 and 2016 does not respect the user zone when sending alerts but the Cross Firewall Access Zone (an unusual scenario)
Symptoms Consider you have a one Web Application with at least two zones. The extranet zone...
Date: 10/30/2017
Tool to generate DebugDiag rule for SharePoint based on event id (Tag) and optionally a partial message
When I updated my post on how to create DebugDiag rule based on event id (Tag), I received some...
Date: 08/30/2017
My good friend Neil Hodgkinson gave me a challenge: some partners and companies were asking him how...
Date: 06/06/2017
Recently I worked on a case for a Fortune 500 company that was having problems to render the RSS...
Date: 04/25/2017
There are several resources out there claiming SharePoint 2013 and 2010 are not compatible with TLS...
Date: 06/28/2016
I have mentioned the steps to troubleshoot Claims to Windows NT Service (c2WTS) problems in a...
Date: 05/27/2016
Creating DebugDiag 2 rule to generate SharePoint 2010-2016 process dump based on ULS Tags and Message
I had previously discussed this topic here but it would not work for ULS tags with 5 digits...
Date: 05/26/2016
A lot of good and competent people shy away from writing their own WinDbg extension because of the...
Date: 05/18/2016
NetTcpBinding is a strange beast and chances are you will encounter several problems in...
Date: 02/29/2016
How to Identify Why an Application Pool is Recycling in IIS 7+ and DebugDiag 2 Fails to Add Managed Breakpoint in .NET 4.6+ in one post
Identifying why Application Pool is recycling Starting with IIS 7, application recycle for managed...
Date: 11/03/2015
This is a short one, I promise. A colleague was complaining that NetExt command !whttp was not...
Date: 10/26/2015
One of the problems that many C++ native developers face when interacting with .NET is the inability...
Date: 08/24/2015
Console Application to discover Effective Named Pipe Path of a WCF net.pipe Endpoint (Update for .NET 4.0+)
Named pipes created by WCF does not look like the endpoint at all. I discuss this at length here:...
Date: 08/06/2015
James Davis is a big shot in the debugging community and maintains a hard core blog of his...
Date: 04/07/2015
A colleague (and friend) from Azure team asked me to help narrow down a strange case of a MVC...
Date: 03/27/2015
DISCLAIMER: NetExt is a free and open source WinDBG application that makes .NET debugging...
Date: 03/10/2015
.NET 2.0 to 3.5 These version shares the same runtime and the version starts with 2.0.50727...
Date: 12/23/2014
I have recently worked on an advisory case on which the customer was looking for a STS sample using...
Date: 11/06/2014
One of the WCF strengths is the flexibility to allow different configuration combinations. One of...
Date: 10/08/2014
ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) is a fancy name for Windows Identity Foundation Server....
Date: 04/21/2014
If you have tried my tool to troubleshoot c2WTS with SharePoint, c2WTSTester, verified that the...
Date: 03/21/2014
One of our customers had a very particular problem that prevented them from using custom encoder and...
Date: 02/06/2014
UPDATE******* NETExt is now back in version 2.0.0.500 using a ClrMD as API. Get it here:...
Date: 10/30/2013
SharePoint has a very comprehensive and configurable diagnostic logging infrastructure known as ULS...
Date: 10/23/2013
I had received a somewhat odd request to produce a proof-of-concept application to enable a...
Date: 11/27/2012
Troubleshooting Claims to Windows NT Token Service (c2WTS) in SharePoint 2010 may be difficult if you don’t know where to start
I have been writing some blogs entries (and even a Microsoft KB) about c2WTS, but the subject never...
Date: 07/19/2011
As I have promised in my previous post, I am making available a C++ console application to...
Date: 03/23/2011
If Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) implementation has its own idiosyncrasies, named pipes...
Date: 03/22/2011
After adding page links to the Top Link Bar of team sites tab, the Home tab (the first one) was not...
Date: 03/04/2011
There is no better way of learning something than to observe someone doing it step-by-step. I...
Date: 02/23/2011
Claims to Windows Token Service (c2WTS) may not start automatically when you reboot your server (don’t blame SharePoint for that)
I know a large number of people who believe that Claims to Windows Token Service is a SharePoint...
Date: 02/20/2011
Don’t you hate when you have access denied and you don’t know where it is coming from? It is even...
Date: 11/11/2010
Creating a Web Application using Kerberos as authentication instead of NTLM in SharePoint 2010 programmatically via PowerShell
If you have ever tried to programmatically create a Web Application using Kerberos as authentication...
Date: 10/08/2010
My friend Yuri Diogenes, one of the security gurus here at Microsoft, in partnership with Jim...
Date: 04/13/2010
I normally talk about SharePoint topics but this post is also important for non-SharePoint people....
Date: 12/30/2009
This problem was fixed in KB961175. The patch will keep the problem from happening again in new...
Date: 12/16/2009
I had put together an application to perform Load Test in both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server...
Date: 09/03/2009
There are some occasions in the course of work as Support Escalation Engineer in Microsoft that we...
Date: 08/12/2009
There are scenarios on which you can access a unique site collection using different URLs even if...
Date: 06/24/2009
Let's face it, updating Sharepoint is not an easy task. It is true for both Microsoft Office...
Date: 05/19/2009
I had recently faced a problem which I believe other people will face at least once: how to get the...
Date: 05/19/2009
WSS and MOSS enable outgoing e-mail configuration and most of the time this configuration is...
Date: 11/05/2008