Microsoft has played a major role in the development of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS) that is currently in the hands of the OASIS working group. Committed as the team has been, they (including Microsoft) have not provided much information or examples of how CMIS will work with Microsoft’s SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Until [...]
Feb
17
2010
17
2010
How To: Connecting SharePoint (MOSS) to a CMIS Repository
Jan
25
2010
25
2010
SharePoint Feature Administration and Clean Up Tool
Tool that was very useful in cleaning up my Sharepoint site in preparation for upgrade to 2010.
Project Description Find faulty FeatureDefinitions and cleanly uninstall them. Find Feature remainders in Sites, SiteCollections, WebApps and in the Farm, from e.g. forcefully uninstalled Features from farm without [...]
Jan
12
2010
12
2010
Removing Invalid SharePoint 2007 Features due to a Failed, Missing, or Unsuccessful Activation SharePoint WSP – Gilham Consulting Microsoft Notepad
Great tip if you ave issues removing WSP solution packages and web parts from third parties and find they don’t install or uninstall properly. You may also have trouble activating or deactivating features in site settings when these invalid features crop up.
Errors that could be shown in SharePoint when installing or activating a feature "An [...]
Dec
2
2009
2
2009
Jie Li’s GeekWorld : User Profile Sync Setup in SharePoint Server 2010 Beta
Excerpt from another very useful post on setting up Profile Syncs in Sharepoint 2010
This is how I setup user profile sync for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta on my machine. You should not take this as an official guide. But the steps may help if you have been drive crazy.
You should also [...]
Dec
2
2009
2
2009
Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta
An excerpt from the MS Sharepoint Team Blog on User Profile Synchronization
Before we get into the deep details, I want to share a high-level checklist to setup User Profile syncing on Windows Server 2008. Once the WCF hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 is available, this guidance will work on R2. This checklist is [...]
Dec
2
2009
2
2009
Sharepoint 2010 Beta 2 User Profile Error Messages
If you have been following the newsgroups, you will see that there are a lot of people having problems with setting up user profile synchronization in the Sharepoint 2010 Beta 2 release.
Since the beta release I have done two Sharepoint 2010 installs on Windows Server 2008, and one on Windows Server 2010 R2. [...]
Oct
13
2009
13
2009
SPC Social Events: 10 Steps to Prepare for SharePoint Conference #SPC09 – SharePoint Joel’s SharePoint Land
Can’t wait for SPC 2009. Only 5 days till Vegas.
As the dates near, the largest SharePoint Conference of any type in history approaches. The largest vendor hall, the largest amount of attendees 6000+ and growing. This might be the largest Microsoft Conference of the year, definitely approaching the mammoth sizes of even WPC, Teched [...]
Oct
13
2009
13
2009
Vantage Point – Bob German’s WebLog : Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs
Back in the Zone with ZoneTabs
I’m back after a long break from posting to announce the availability of a new web part that you may find helpful.
Zone Tabs 2.0 is a new version of a tab web part I previously released on GotDotNet that helps reduce clutter on a web part page by allowing you [...]
Sep
8
2009
8
2009
SharePoint Solutions Team Blog: Silverlight: The easiest method to get SharePoint list data
In this post, I will share the simplest, most direct method I’ve found to access SharePoint list data from a Silverlight control hosted within a SharePoint web part. Contrary to most examples I’ve seen, this methodology will not require any custom web services. I’m am however going to assume that you have a working knowledge [...]
Sep
8
2009
8
2009
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