We sometimes see customers running into problems when using the "Sign in as Different User" feature in SharePoint. Common problems are Documents opened in external applications are saved with an unexpected user account because the external application...

Topics covered in this post:

• Publishing SharePoint mobile for Windows Phone 7
• Creating Flash navigation menus driven by your SharePoint site content
• How To Hide Ribbon From Users Without Edit Page Privilege
• Download SharePoint 2010 Pre-Requisites
• UserName showing up as DomainName\UserName instead of Full Name in SharePoint 2010
• The request failed with the error message: Object moved (SharePoint 2010, Web Services & FBA)

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The product group released the December 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2596987 - WSS 3.0 KB 2596986 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for...

The product group released the December 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the December Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Topics covered in this post:

• Calling SP UI Modal dialog from Update Panel
• Simulating include Files with an ASP.NET Server Control
• Simulating Explorer View in SharePoint 2010
• Not every SharePoint site template supports Multilingual UI (MUI)!
• CodePlex project: SPViewPermissionSetting

 

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Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

In the last couple of years I received several cases related to problems when using "stsadm -o restore" or "Restore-SPSite" commands. The users received an error message similar to the following: Your backup is from a different version of Windows...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

The first update for SharePoint Online has been rolled out recently which introduced various different improvements in areas like:

• Business Connectivity Services
• External Sharing
• Enhanced Browser Support
• Recycle Bin
• Fixes to various different problem

 

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Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Topics covered in this post:

• How to change the Spell Checker Language
• Articles on Claims-Based authentication
• SharePoint Timer Job Locks and Scope
• How to check if code is running as sandboxed solution?
• Productivity Hub 2010 for SP1

 

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Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Topics covered in this post:

• Delivering Business-Critical Solutions with SharePoint 2010
• Processing items with Work Item Timer Jobs in SharePoint 2010
• Event handler to archive items when deleted
• Using a centrally manageable custom masterpage
• SharePoint 2010 Provisioning A New Farm with PowerShell

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Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

Part 1 - The Basics Part 2 - User Interface Part 3 - Triggers Part 4 - Timer Jobs Part 5 - Configuration Overview Part 6 - Configuration Internals Part 7 - Variation Hierarchy Creation Part 8 - Creating Page Variants Part 9 - Creating Site Variants Part...

In a recent case I was analyzing an interesting access denied scenario related to publishing pages. In the specific scenario permissions were broken on the Pages library and all rights except for the site owners group were removed from the pages library...

Topics covered in this post:

• Information about the characters that you cannot use in sites, folders, and files in SharePoint
• Create a secondary workflow
• How My Site Cleanup Job works

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SharePoint usually fires two different events for each operation: a "before" event which fires before the operation has been performed and an "after" event which fires after the operation has been performed. The before event is always raised on the...

Per default all space characters entered for the url name are converted to a "-" sign. This is usually a good idea as reading something like "My-Press-Release.aspx" looks better than "My%20Press%20Release.aspx". But some companies have a requirement to...

In an earlier post I outlined problems when installing October 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 on top of Service Pack 3. Meanwhile October 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 has been rereleased. If you are going to download October 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007...

Topics covered in this post:

• Item-level auditing with Sharepoint 2007
• SharePoint 2010 Templates for Health Organizations
• Information on mirroring of the Profile and Social databases

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Due to a problem in the October 2011 CU it is not possible to install October CU on top of MOSS 2007 Service Pack 3. If a fix from October CU is required right now you can use the workaround to first install October 2011 CU and Service Pack 3 afterwards...

The product group released the delayed October 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the October Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed...

Topics covered in this post:

• SharePoint 2010 and web templates
• Introduction to SharePoint Feature Stapling
• SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Command Builder
• SharePoint 2010 Visio Stencil Kit
• Configure availability by using SQL Server database mirroring

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The product group released the October 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. October CU for SharePoint 2010 should be available in a couple of days. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2596541...

[via Office Sustained Engineering and Release team ] We are pleased to announce the availability of Service Pack 3 (SP3) for our 2007 family of products. This service pack contains all the Cumulative Updates and Public Updates for Office 2007 that...

Topics covered in this post:

• Using Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010
• Customizing the Ribbon in SharePoint
• Connect data in Web Parts

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Topics covered in this post:

• Free SharePoint eBooks from Microsoft for download
• Scale Test Report for Very Large-Scale Document Repositories
• Deploying SharePoint Server 2010 updates on mission critical sites
• Hybrid SharePoint Environments with Office 365
• How do I tune the MOSS Object Cache for performance and economy?
• Accessing Databases from within a Sandboxed Solution
• Understanding SharePoint: Event Receivers

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Topics covered in this post:

• How to To to convert the SP2010 Folder Breadcrumb to Traditional Style
• Implementing Claims-Based Authentication with SharePoint Server 2010 (whitepaper)
• Restore a Deleted Site Collection in SharePoint 2010 SP1
• How to use Custom Access Denied Page in SharePoint 2010?

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Today I analyzed an interesting problem related to mixing Selective Deployment and Quick Deployment. Background Info I explained the concepts of Quick Deployment in the following article: Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part...

Special thanks to my colleague Tehnoon Raza for collecting the following information: Summary On September 13, 2011, Microsoft released security bulletin MS11-074 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Elevation of Privilege . The...

Since the early times of SharePoint we receive support cases where a customer receives the following error message when using custom code with SharePoint: "The Web application at http://server:port/ could not be found. Verify that you have typed the...

Unlike "Before" event (e.g. ItemAdding, ItemDeleting) "After" events (e.g. ItemAdded, ItemDeleted) in SharePoint usually fire asynchronously on a different thread then the http request. That means that the HttpContext and HttpRequest objects cannot...

In the past I had a couple of cases where users received the following error message: The site is not valid. The 'Pages' document library is missing. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please...

The product group released the delayed August 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the August Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed...

The product group released the August 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. August CU for SharePoint 2010 should be available in a couple of days. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days...

Finally after a long beta phase the final version of DebugDiag 1.2 has been released. The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes...

June 2011 CU Refresh has been released yesterday. It resolves a couple of known problems which were documented in the KB articles of the hotfixes (details see below). Here are the details about the problems which are addressed in the re-released packages...