A new day has dawned in my SharePoint world. SPTales, January 1, 0001 Until I started working with SharePoint, I never thought I would be blogging. I am usually a pretty private individual, but this thing called the SharePoint community pulls you in and makes you feel like ... A new day has dawned in my SharePoint world. 0 0 0
TechEd 2012: Office, SharePoint And More Office Tim Murphy, January 1, 0001 I haven’t spent any time looking at Office 365 up to this point. I met Donovan Follette on the flight down from Chicago. I also got to spend some time discussing the product offerings with him at the TechExpo ... TechEd 2012: Office, SharePoint And More Office 0 0 0
TFS Rant *WARNING* negative opinions are being expressed. ryanabr, January 1, 0001 It has happened several times now where I end up installing TFS "over the shoulder" of the system admin guy whose job it will be to "own" the server when I am gone. TFS is challenging enough to stand up ... TFS Rant *WARNING* negative opinions are being expressed. 0 0 0
How to generate SPMetal for a specific list (OOTB: like tasks or ... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 SPMetal is used to make use of LINQ on a list in SharePoint 2010. By default when you generate SPMetal on a site you will get a code generated file for most of the lists and probably more. Here is a MSDN ... How to generate SPMetal for a specific list (OOTB: like tasks or ... 0 0 1
Using Microsoft benefits to kickstart your own development douglasscott, January 1, 0001 Working for a big company I enjoy all the Microsoft tools I can consume. I also have the infrastructure to support my development and team communication.I recently helped form a small consulting team that ... Using Microsoft benefits to kickstart your own development 0 0 1
Error occurred in deployment step 'Recycle IIS Application Pool' shehan, January 1, 0001 Encountered this error while trying to deploy a SharePoint 2010 project from Visual Studio 2010:Error occurred in deployment step 'Recycle IIS Application Pool': The open operation did not complete within ... Error occurred in deployment step 'Recycle IIS Application Pool' 0 0 1
KCDC Attendee or What I learned over my summer vacation tom, January 1, 0001 This summer I went to a the Kansas City Developers Conference (April 27 and 28th, 2012). It was fun and I learned a lot. I have been 3 times before and this is my first time blogging on it so here goes. ... KCDC Attendee or What I learned over my summer vacation 0 0 0
Tech-Ed 2012 North America – meet me there! Nikita Polyakov, January 1, 0001 I’m excited to be near home in Orlando, FL next week for Tech-Ed 2012 NA. Here are the times you can come chat with me about the Windows Phone topics at the TLC stations in the main expo hall: Monday 7:00pm ... Tech-Ed 2012 North America – meet me there! 0 0 0
Buy ReSharper 6 - Get Version 7 Free!? TATWORTH, January 1, 0001 A tip that has just been passed to me by my good friends at Jet Brains.JetBrains ReSharper is approaching its new major release later this summer. We're delighted to announce a limited 2-in-1 offer: all ... Buy ReSharper 6 - Get Version 7 Free!? 0 0 0
Events and Presentations Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 There is a number of things going on this coming weekend, so this maybe pushing it … yet good to put it out there. June 2nd (tomorrow), presenting at SharePoint Saturday St. Louis. The topic is SQL Server ... Events and Presentations 0 0 0
Sync custom AD properties to SharePoint Profile KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 Here are some step-by-step instructions regarding configuring SharePoint to sync with custom AD attributes:Add the custom attribute in Active DirectoryThis part will have to be your doing; here is some ... Sync custom AD properties to SharePoint Profile 0 0 0
How to find Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.dll and some ot... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 You may be wondering where to find Microsoft.SharePoint.Applic... , if you are creating a new SharePoint application page? But don’t worry, it resides in _app_bin folder of your SharePoint site’s ... How to find Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationPages.dll and some ot... 0 0 1
AJI Software is now a Microsoft Gold Application Lifecycle Manage... Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Our team at AJI Software has been hard at work over the past year on certifications and projects that has allowed us to reach Gold Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program. We have focused on providing ... AJI Software is now a Microsoft Gold Application Lifecycle Manage... 0 0 0
WANTED: SQL Saturday and Tech Day Speakers on Windows Phone and W... PaulJohnson, January 1, 0001 If you are a Windows Phone enthusiast, or really into the Windows 8 platform that is coming soon, then I ask you to consider sunny Baton Rouge, Louisiana as your vacation spot this coming August 4 for ... WANTED: SQL Saturday and Tech Day Speakers on Windows Phone and W... 0 0 0
Copying Files into a TFS Workspace: Which Files Changed? Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Team Foundation Server 2010 is a “server-side” version control system. Developers use to Subversion and other “client-side” systems are often frustrated in certain situations where they want to see only ... Copying Files into a TFS Workspace: Which Files Changed? 0 0 0
Get-SPSolution idiosyncrasy PointsToShare, January 1, 0001 I have written a nifty little tool in PowerShell that eases the deployment of SharePoint solutions (WSP) files. The tool serves as a management tool for new features. It uses an XML configuration to select ... Get-SPSolution idiosyncrasy 0 0 1
WCF Error tracking Pavan Kumar Pabothu, January 1, 0001 Have you ever gotten errors when working with WCF services? Open up your web.config/app.config on the server side and add the following<system.diagnos... <!-- This logging is great when WCF ... WCF Error tracking 0 0 0
Choosing the right site template - SharePoint 2010 KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 SharePoint 2010 provides a number of templates for creating new sites. Most organizations will decide for you which SharePoint templates you're going to use; it’s usually either a Team Site template or ... Choosing the right site template - SharePoint 2010 0 0 1
Deleting duplicated fields from the Form Library's content type, ... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 If you did not pay attention to the last step before publishing an InfoPath 2010 form to a SharePoint server and you are facing a lot of problems because the publish created duplicate columns. Look no ... Deleting duplicated fields from the Form Library's content type, ... 0 0 1
SharePoint Saturday NYC Update from the Trenches MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 So as you know I am yet again involved in SPS NYC with my awesome teammates, Greg Hurlman, Jason Gallicchio, Tasha Scott, and Tom Daly. The speakers have finally been picked and a first draft schedule ... SharePoint Saturday NYC Update from the Trenches 0 0 0
Integrating SharePoint with Fruity Products MOSSLover, January 1, 0001 So as you can see this blog has not been the best in the world lately. Life changes and burn out are killing me lately. Don’t get me wrong I love my job. I love writing things in Visual Studio, in fact ... Integrating SharePoint with Fruity Products 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server 2010 Real-Time Burndown Charts Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 The reality is that project managers need work status in real-time. The TFS Excel reports and web parts are great, but because they are sourced from the TFS SSAS cube the information can be up to 2 hours ... Team Foundation Server 2010 Real-Time Burndown Charts 0 0 1
TFS 2010 Backup Utility Support for Multi-Server Topology Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 The TFS 2010 backup utility, which is part of the September '10 TFS Power Tools release, is advertised to support a multi-server topology. Specifically where SharePoint is installed separately and on a ... TFS 2010 Backup Utility Support for Multi-Server Topology 0 0 0
TFS 2010 - SPS 2010 MOSS Web Part Connection Refresh Failure Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 ISSUE "Refresh Error" dialog displays on Team Project portal MOSS web parts. There are several variations of refresh errors. Here is one instance: "An error ocurred while accessing application id tfs from ... TFS 2010 - SPS 2010 MOSS Web Part Connection Refresh Failure 0 0 0
Integrating Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and SharePoint (SP)... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this post is to provide clear and concise steps for a very specific scenario: Integrating TFS 2010 with SP Server (SPS i.e. formerly MOSS) 2010 TFS and SPS are on different ... Integrating Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and SharePoint (SP)... 0 0 0
Visual Studio ALM (TFS) Benefits Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 Here's a summary of TFS 2010 enabled improvement opportunities. This is based on my research and work with TFS 2010 to-date. Unlike a list of features, this information is organized around the typical ... Visual Studio ALM (TFS) Benefits 0 0 0
Accessing VSTS 2010 Offline/Local Process Guidance Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 You can use local or offline VS/TFS Process Guidance. However, then none of the convenient links from the Team Explorer and the Team Project SharePoint site work. Here's how you can fix that. Starting ... Accessing VSTS 2010 Offline/Local Process Guidance 0 0 0
Passing in report parameters to TFS 2010 OLAP Web Parts on the Te... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 There is some helpful information from Ewald Hofman on passing in parameters to the TFS SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP reports. But, the 2010 schema has changed. You can use the SQL Server Mgmgt Studio ... Passing in report parameters to TFS 2010 OLAP Web Parts on the Te... 0 0 2
How I Customized Report Parameters for Team Foundation Server 201... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 My goal was to have the burndown chart on the team project portal main page display the current iteration. The default report displays the tasks for the entire team project starting 5 days before the current ... How I Customized Report Parameters for Team Foundation Server 201... 0 0 0
How to decide on SharePoint Metadata KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 Deciding the amount of metadata needed for a SharePoint project is one of the most complicated tasks in the project life cycle. Commonly known as Information Architecture, this task can really get messy ... How to decide on SharePoint Metadata 0 0 0
Removing the checkbox in front of list items in SP2010 KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 Here’s a quick one about modifying list views to remove the checkbox that appears next to list items. It’s really simple but it is a new element of SharePoint 2010 list views and one where it is not immediately ... Removing the checkbox in front of list items in SP2010 0 0 0
Relative and absolute URLs in CEWP PointsToShare, January 1, 0001 Relative and absolute URLs in CEWP Microsoft’s own explanation of the CEWP in:http://office.microsoft.... includes the following caveat: ... Relative and absolute URLs in CEWP 0 0 0
MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT ONLINE CODE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK (MSOCAF) – A ... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT ONLINE CODE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK (MSOCAF) is a must have for all SharePoint Vendors and Customers. Microsoft SharePoint Online introduced a new application which will streamline the ... MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT ONLINE CODE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK (MSOCAF) – A ... 0 0 0
How to submit data from an InfoPath 2010 form to SharePoint 2010 ... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 This post covers a step by step guide to add/update data from InfoPath to SharePoint.The prerequisites for this post and the tasks covered are SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft OfficeInfoPath Designer 2010 ... How to submit data from an InfoPath 2010 form to SharePoint 2010 ... 0 0 3
How to perform CRUD and Search operation on SharePoint List Items... Michael M. Bangoy, January 1, 0001 Hi…In this post I’m going to demonstrate how to perform Create, Read, Update, Delete and Search operation against a SharePoint List on a Windows Forms Application using the SharePoint Client Object Model. ... How to perform CRUD and Search operation on SharePoint List Items... 0 0 5
Installing TFS 2011 Beta in a Virtual Machine ryanabr, January 1, 0001 This was about as straight forward of an affair as one would think for installing a Beta product. Once I got over my own memory lapses of what do first. VMWare Player: After spending about an hour trying ... Installing TFS 2011 Beta in a Virtual Machine 0 0 0
Develop SharePoint Solutions without installing SharePoint on Vis... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 If you want to stay away from installing SharePoint on your client OS (Windows 7) but still develop cutting edge solutions, webparts etc for a SharePoint server running on a different VM. You can just ... Develop SharePoint Solutions without installing SharePoint on Vis... 0 0 0
Web Part to execute CAML Query - Using 'Managed Metadata' entered... KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 I came across a requirement where I needed a way to be able to retrieve pages that have been tagged with a particular Managed Metadata (MMD) value. Let's say there's a MMD field called Category. And the ... Web Part to execute CAML Query - Using 'Managed Metadata' entered... 0 0 0
Using Cookie-Based Authentication with the CData SharePoint Data ... dataintegration, January 1, 0001 This article walks through the process of using the SharePoint Data Provider and authenticating with SharePoint Online / Office 365. This tutorial covers how to perform authentication programmatically ... Using Cookie-Based Authentication with the CData SharePoint Data ... 0 0 0
Accessing website data using ADO.NET dataintegration, January 1, 0001 Accessing Website Data Using ADO.NETBy i-programmer, January 24, 2011 This article was originally written and hosted on i-programmerIntroductionInt... with websites via the wide range of APIs that ... Accessing website data using ADO.NET 0 0 0
[sys].[sp_dboption]missing in SQL 2012 Leonard Mwangi, January 1, 0001 This morning I decided to be a little adventurous and install SharePoint 2010 on SQL 2012 environment and the first thing I noticed is that the installation fails because in SQL 2012 Microsoft has removed ... [sys].[sp_dboption]missing in SQL 2012 0 0 0
Office14 guids Norgean, January 1, 0001 Ok, perhaps not the most meaningful post today, but I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere else. Crank open a SharePoint web.config, and scroll down to the "action" elements. <Action id="0ff1ce14-0001-0002-0000... ... Office14 guids 0 0 0
SharePoint 2010: How to insert multiple person/group field conten... MoDraves, January 1, 0001 Issue: You want to be able to pull the values contained in a multiple person/group field in a SharePoint list into a workflow, and insert them into the CC portion of the send email workflow action. A most ... SharePoint 2010: How to insert multiple person/group field conten... 0 0 0
How to delete SharePoint alerts for orphaned (deleted) users&ndas... Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 An issue came up at my client recently, where our webmaster email account was being flooded with non deliverable email notices. Messages were bouncing back because our SharePoint farm was sending alerts ... How to delete SharePoint alerts for orphaned (deleted) users&ndas... 0 0 2
Presentation on SQL Server Health in a SharePoint environment Enrique Lima, January 1, 0001 Sql Health in a SharePoint environment View more presentations from Enrique Lima ... Presentation on SQL Server Health in a SharePoint environment 0 0 0
Two Best SharePoint Utility Methods Ever Written Doug Lampe, January 1, 0001 SharePoint is very handy as a repository for data. There are things (particularly in the intranet world) which really don't need a dedicated database or application and SharePoint is a great enabler. However, ... Two Best SharePoint Utility Methods Ever Written 0 0 4
Changing SharePoint with - CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 This post covers how to squeeze the most out of the platform we all love - SharePoint 2010 and push the boundaries to the max in-order to get acceptance and success. SharePoint, is a terribly-complex and ... Changing SharePoint with - CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery 0 0 2
SharePoint 2010 – Office 365 KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 Office 365 is a cloud service from Microsoft. Part of the service it provides is cloud-based version (Microsoft hosted platform) of SharePoint 2010. The benefit you get is that you don't have to worry ... SharePoint 2010 – Office 365 0 0 0
SharePoint PowerShell Error: The local farm is not accessible. Cm... Norgean, January 1, 0001 So you've already checked that you have the necessary rights. Did you install Powershell 3.0 CTP? Powershell 3.0 CTP seems to have some issues with the SharePoint snapin, and will not give you the above ... SharePoint PowerShell Error: The local farm is not accessible. Cm... 0 0 0
25 New Features of SharePoint 2010 KunaalKapoor, January 1, 0001 1. New Claims-Based Authentication ModelSharePoint Foundation 2010 incorporates a new authentication model that works with any corporate identity system, including Active Directory Domain Services, LDAP-based ... 25 New Features of SharePoint 2010 0 0 1