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I'll be attending at the Dutch Microsoft DevDays: how to make debugging/testing easy following the SharePoint Guidance

Bas — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:39:00 GMT

Yesterday I was asked if I wanted to held a session at the Microsoft DevDays in the netherlands. Of course I said yes :D. There was a gap and wanted me to fill it. The session will be about how to make use of design patterns like MVP, Repositories and...(read more)

Removing My Profile menu items from the QuickLaunch menu on your MySite

Bas — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:22:00 GMT

A few days ago I ran into a problem, because I had to alter the QuickLaunch menu for the mySites. Easy as Pie, I thought. I wrote a Feature that was able to add or delete nodes based on it's link name: When using titles there could be a problem when...(read more)

Pre-register for SharePoint 2010 Beta

Bas — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:41:00 GMT

Find out how this integrated suite of server capabilities can help your organization by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for...(read more)

SP2010; Browser - compatibility overview

Bas — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:57:00 GMT

Fully compatible: Internet Explorer 7 32-bit Internet Explorer 8 32-bit Firefox 3.x 32-bit not fully compatible (but you can use it normally) internet Explorer 7 64-bit Internet Explorer 8 64-bit Firefox 3.x on non-windows operating system Safari 3.x...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 information

Bas — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:42:00 GMT

This is just a small roundup of the information provided by our friend steve: Public beta of workspace, office and SharePoint 2010 will be available in november. No date specified SharePoint 2010 will ship in Q1 or Q2 of 2010 SharePoint 2010 runs on vista...(read more)

6 ways to Speed up stsadm

Bas — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:33:00 GMT

As an addition to my previous post, I found a blogpost where I found numerous other options to speed up the stsadm process. Symptoms for STSADM: You start STSADM without any parameters There is a delay of about 30 seconds While you are waiting, and tearing...(read more)

Speeding up stsadm

Bas — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:16:00 GMT

When STSADM executes, it tries to load strong named assemblies which need to be verified against an authentication provider. When your client has bad or no network access, it waits for a timeout before continuing, which makes the stsadm command very slow...(read more)

CrossListQueryInfo not able to return MultiLookup Fields

Bas — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:49:00 GMT

Some time ago I wrote a blogpost about how to use the CrossListQueryInfo and CrossListQueryCache to be able to find any item within a site within a very small amount of time. Hower, since today I know that this method cant be used when you are trying...(read more)

Moss: Migrating and Merging User Accounts to another domain.

Bas — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:15:00 GMT

Some time ago, the company that I work for, merged with another company and one of the issues that we still have, is that the users of both companies till reside in different domains. At the moment, we have a SharePoint Intranet which is accessible for...(read more)

SharePoint - Retrieving login name from SPUserField in a list

Bas — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:41:00 GMT

For a long time I didnt know how to retrieve a login name from a SPUser field in a SharePoint List. When a user doesn't have a userProfile, he is stored in the SPUser field as <number>;#<Domain\loginName>, and when he does have a profile...(read more)

SharePoint 2010, I am impressed!

Bas — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:34:00 GMT

Today we finally got acces to the SharePoint 2010(twenty - ten) sneak peak site, with 3 video's included which gives us a sneak peak to SharePoint 2010. And i must say, I amself really impressed! It's better for the business, who thought we could...(read more)

Customizing MOSS Search - Part 2: Modifying the default Moss Search box, remove the contextual (this site) scope and modify the OSSSearchResults.aspx reference

Bas — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:25:00 GMT

When you want to customize the default WSS Search box, this isn't too hard. It ships into the ContentLightUp feature, which contains a feature.xml and a searcharea.xml. In that searcharea.xml a reference to the searcharea.asxc exists. Because SharePoint...(read more)

Customizing MOSS Search - Part 1

Bas — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:05:00 GMT

MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 are using the same search engine. It only differs in the options that are available to each of the products. As expected, MOSS 2007 has a lot more functionality then WSS 3.0. Where WSS 3.0 is only able to use contextual search (as...(read more)

SharePoint extensions library v2.0 released

Bas — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:33:00 GMT

Today, Keith Dahlby and Wictor Wilén released v2.0 of the sharepoint extensions library, which contains some really helpful functions for sharepoint development. Please take a look at http://solutionizing.net/2009/06/01/spexlib-release-these-are...(read more)

SharePoint: Modifying the PeopleResults.aspx - adding custom Profile Properties

Bas — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:41:00 GMT

To modify the results of the peopleresults.aspx, a few stepts have to be taken. In my case, a Division is added to the results. at first, make sure that the property that you want to display, is indexed so it will be part of the People Search Scope: Go...(read more)