Hopefully by now everyone has heard about the new app model in SharePoint 2013. There’s a lot of documentation out there about it so I won’t go into exactly what it is. What you should know is that it’s the preferred model for developing applications going forward. If you’ve done...

SharePoint 2013 brings with it a brand new application model, which we euphemistically refer to as the “app model” or “cloud app model”. While it brings a whole new set of opportunities from a development perspective, it also carries with it infrastructure requirements that you...

First let me say that one of the things I like about blogging about random SharePoint mystery meat is the fact that I can use completely colloquial language like my blog title. Something that’s nearly impossible to get away with, unless, say, you are creating a new version of SharePoint. Anyone...

This is a companion posting to my blog about how to use the client OM with a site that is secured with FBA (http://blogs.technet.com/b/speschka/archive/2010/06/03/using-the-client-object-model-with-a-forms-based-auth-site-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx). First let me just say, this was hard! Like probably...

Search connector links are a really slick feature that integrates SharePoint 2010 search with Windows 7. When you search in a SharePoint 2010 site from a Windows 7 machine, you will see a little icon in the search results on the top left part of the results pane. It looks like a folder with a magnifying...

I can take ZERO credit for this, but I saw a very useful email today where Jan described how to create a FAST search scope using PowerShell. So I'm just the messenger here but thought it was worth sharing: New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryScope -SearchApplication "FAST Query Application" -Name "NewScope...

SharePoint 2010 adds some new features to support hosting environments, which we generally refer to as multi tenant support. In the beta release, the core multitenant infrastructure is not turned on by default. It requires a custom service application to be provisioned, and once that's done you can begin...

If you've followed my blog entries by now then you've seen quite a bit of information on throttling for large lists in SharePoint 2010. One of the things you may find is that you will have scenarios where you want to be able to toggle the enforcement of the throttling on a list by list basis. As I explained...

SharePoint 2010 introduces a new client side object model (hereafter referred to as the “client OM”) for retrieving data. It supports a subset of functionality contained in the server side object model, but generally speaking gives you ready access to the data in your SharePoint site using standard object...

In the first two parts of this posting I described the pattern you can use to retrieve data with the client object model (“client OM”). I showed how to use the same pattern to retrieve both a set of lists, as well as data contained within a single list. In this post we’ll talk about ways that we can...

In part 1 of this post, I described some general features of the new client object model (“client OM”) that is included with SharePoint 2010. I also walked through a pattern for retrieving a collection of all of the lists in a web using that object model. In this posting, we’ll extend our example further...

In the first three parts of this series we’ve gone through quite a bit of code that shows how to retrieve data from lists. In this post, we’re going to show how to actually create a list and manage fields. In the client object model you’ll see a familiar naming pattern of “someobjectCreationInformation...

The previous posts in this series have been pretty list-centric. In this posting we’re going to delve down a different path in exploring the client object model and talk about security. The client OM actually provides great support for working with the security model in SharePoint. You can do everything...

Time to wrap up this series and we’re going to mostly talk about managing web parts using the client object model. First, however, we’re going to take a quick peek at something else you can do, which is create additional Edit Control Block (ECB) menu items. Yes, you can even create ECB items from the...

Content Type Syndication is new feature that is part of the Managed Metdata service in SharePoint 2010. It solves a long-standing problem from SharePoint 2007, which is how do I create an enterprise library of content types and synchronize them amongst many different site collections. We often had to...

The Content Organizer feature is a new routing feature that extends, enhances, and makes more broadly available the routing engine used in the Records Center site template from SharePoint 2007. It not only allows you to automatically route documents to different libraries and folders within those libraries...

The Content Organizer rules are really the heart that drives the content organizer system. The rules list is just a standard SharePoint list that uses the custom Rule content type. Each rule contains all of the criteria used to determine where new items should be uploaded. Rules provide a wide array...

As described in the first post in this series, the Drop Off Library is created when you activate the Content Organizer feature. As soon as you configure the Content Organizer to start routing documents (which, actually it does when you activate the feature), all uploads to the site are automatically...