SharePoint Shenanigans

New Document ID Feature in SharePoint 2010

Tired of broken links when someone moves a document within a site collection? Tired of nasty URL’s for a document buried deep in a doclib? SharePoint 2010 includes a new Site Collection scoped Feature called the Document ID Service. To enable this feature Read More...

Setting the Recovery Model of all SharePoint Databases

Since my customer is using Data Protection Manager 2007 to protect their SharePoint Farm workloads - they decided they wanted to set all the SharePoint databases to use the Simple Recovery Model. They have 30+ Farms so they needed a way to do this quickly Read More...

Unable to send e-mail alerts to users with an external e-mail address

This one is short and sweet. My customer has federated partners so we use ADFS to allow these partners the ability to access and collaborate with our SharePoint portal. One of our amazing developers wrote code to create user profiles in the ADFS enabled Read More...

How to use SSL Certificates with Multiple Subject Alternative Names in MOSS

Some companies do not allow wildcard * SSL certificates – but do allow certificates with multiple subject alternative names. Unfortunately there is not a way to easily implement this in MOSS via the GUI. I had a customer that required this – so I figured Read More...

Help I've renamed a Hidden MOSS Site Column!

One of my customers recently found that someone in the process of working with SharePoint Content Types had renamed one of the built-in Site Columns - Title - to something else… If you attempt to change the Site Column back to "Title" you get this error Read More...