Stefan Goßner

April 2012 CU for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 has been released

Stefan Goßner — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:01:00 GMT

The product group released the April 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The April Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the April...(read more)

Interesting problem when creating a variation hierarchy on an already deleted site collection

Stefan Goßner — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:00:00 GMT

My colleague Cedric Naudy recently analyzed an interesting problem: Hierarchy creation for all site collections in a specific content database failed to create the hierarchy while hierarchy creation in other web applications worked fine. The Hierarchy...(read more)

February 2012 CU for SharePoint 2010 has been released

Stefan Goßner — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:47:00 GMT

The product group released the February 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the February Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before...(read more)

February 2012 CU for SharePoint 2007 has been released

Stefan Goßner — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:45:00 GMT

The product group released the February 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2597959 - WSS 3.0 KB 2597958 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for...(read more)

Picks of the week - 07/2012

Stefan Goßner — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:52:00 GMT

Topics covered in this post:

Consuming Webservices over HTTPS (SSL)
Reset the Farm Passphrase
SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata
When Page Output Caching Does Not Output
Database maintenance for SharePoint Server 2010
“Headless” Authentication with SharePoint Online and the Client Side Object Model

...(read more)

Steven Sinofsky talks about Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture

Stefan Goßner — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:30:04 GMT

The full blog post from Steven Sinofsky can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windows-for-the-arm-processor-architecture.aspx...(read more)

Picks of the week - 05/2012

Stefan Goßner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:23:00 GMT

Topics covered in this post:

MOSS Warmup script for FBA based Internet facing site
Create, configure, and manage groups and term sets
Details about how Document ID Service is activated

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SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model SDK available for download

Stefan Goßner — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:04:12 GMT

This download contains the following developer documentation: SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model SDK: This compiled help (.chm) file contains reference topics focusing only on types and members that are called by other Microsoft...(read more)

"Office 15" Begins Technical Preview

Stefan Goßner — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:35:48 GMT

This morning, we reached an important development milestone: the beginning of the "Office 15" Technical Preview Program. Office 15 is the codename for the next generation of the Microsoft Office products and services, and the Technical Preview is the...(read more)

Be careful when creating a content deployment path using powershell

Stefan Goßner — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:43:42 GMT

If you create a content deployment path using the UI the EnableEventReceivers https:/login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=11&checkda=1&ct=1327656453&rver=6.0.5276.0&wp=MCLBI&wlcxt=msdn%24msdn%24msdn&wreply=http%3a%2f...(read more)

Be careful when using the "Sign in as Different User" feature in SharePoint

Stefan Goßner — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:42:39 GMT

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...(read more)

Picks of the week - 01/2012

Stefan Goßner — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:54:00 GMT

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)

...(read more)

December 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 has been released

Stefan Goßner — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:38:00 GMT

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...(read more)

December 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 has been released

Stefan Goßner — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:18:44 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePoint Variations – The complete Guide – Part 18 – FAQ

Stefan Goßner — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:58:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePoint Variations – The complete Guide – Part 17 – MOSS 2007 vs. SP 2010

Stefan Goßner — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:39:00 GMT

SharePoint Variations – The complete Guide – Part 16 – Translation Support

Stefan Goßner — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:44:00 GMT

Picks of the week - 48/2011

Stefan Goßner — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:00:00 GMT

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

...(read more)

SharePoint Variations – The complete Guide – Part 15 – "View Changes" Button

Stefan Goßner — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:09:00 GMT

Common Problem: Your backup is from a different version of SharePoint

Stefan Goßner — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:26:03 GMT

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...(read more)

SharePoint Variations – The complete Guide – Part 14 – Troubleshooting

Stefan Goßner — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:08:00 GMT

What’s New in SharePoint Online - with the November 2011 Update

Stefan Goßner — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:25:00 GMT

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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SharePoint Variations – The complete Guide – Part 13 – Logging

Stefan Goßner — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:58:00 GMT

SharePoint Variations – The complete Guide – Part 12 – Customization

Stefan Goßner — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:47:00 GMT

SharePoint Variations – The complete Guide – Part 11 – Variations Fixup Tool

Stefan Goßner — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:32:00 GMT