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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, his name is stored as <number>;#<name...
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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 update items acquired via a webservice as it was...
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I have been quite busy last months with presenting at several conferences, finishing projects, but most of all attending the Microsoft Certified Master Program. Once again, the organisation of the Developers Days did a great job in selecting sessions and speakers from all over the world. With a line...
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Just back from my MCM SharePoint experience in Redmond I received an email from the dutch Software Development Network (SDN) organisation to give a talk on friday june 26th. It seems that Bob Fox couldn't make it, so they needed a stand-in. Duo presentations are my favorite, so I was lucky that Mirjam...
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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 in: this site, this list), MOSS 2007 can be configurated...
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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-a-few-of-my-favorite-things/ for a post with some...
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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 http://MOSS2007/ssp/admin/_layouts/MgrProperty.aspx...
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A few days ago I was reading a blog (And I forgot what blog!!) with information that the ApplicationPool password was stored as plain text. If you don't believe me: check the screenshot below: The password is as well accessible via the objectmodel, when runnin under elevatedPrivilges.. Lessons learned...
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Our customer had the wish to synchronise some Sharepoint UserProfileProperties of UserProfiles back to LDAP, so that information could be synced with SAP. The attributes that needed to be saved, where inherited from custom schemas in LDAP, which gave us some trouble. When updating attribute values in...
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At the company that I work for at the moment, we have several AD's and a separate LDAP store with additional user information. For that company we are developing a new Intranet in which we want to add their accounts (account + email) and provision their userProfiles with a lot of extra information...
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Today I ran into a problem: Via the SharePoint search I got some results returned, including a pathName to it's default zone. This zone was used for indexing the sites, but isn't accessible as a production URL due to authentication issues. One solution was to remove the default zone and replace...
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a few days ago Microsoft released some new SharePoint themes, and i must say: they look pretty cool! You can download them at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0a87658f-20b8-4dcc-ad7a-09ad22641f3a if you just want to download a wsp with the themes in it, go...
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A new CTP version of the SharePoint project and item templates for Visual Studio 2008 are available. Remember that an CTP version is still in development, so Microsoft Support doesn’t officially support them. Download VSeWSS v1.3 March 2009 CTP from the Microsoft Download Center . Error logging...
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Today we came across some weird bug within SharePoint. We needed to provide a default value for configuration options in a pagelayout. We verified everything on a development server and everything worked fine. When we deployed this code to the test environment, we found out that the default values were...
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Today we were working on some pagelayouts and we got some strange error when we wanted to deploy them. After some testing, we found out that some page layouts were working, some were not. The following error message appeared: Page Layout Error: 'Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content...