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October 2010 - SharePoint MVP Blogs
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Body: Given how much effort is was to get PowerPivot installed and working in the first place, you may never need this post, but just in case something goes wrong and you have to uninstall it to start over, here’s how to do that: Launch Programs and Features...
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Author: Tobias Zimmergren http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren Introduction I was just (re)awarded the prestigious Microsoft MVP award for the third year in a row for my contributions to the SharePoint community. A quote from...
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(My first ever blog post as an ex-MVP) Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the SPF 2010 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are. (Items are added to the SPF 2010 FAQ throughout the week...
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Occasionally you wonder why Microsoft bother putting out certain KB articles. This one is a case in point. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;2212044 Its main reason for being seems to be to tell users that if they have uninstalled...
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Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are. (Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout...
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Over the past year I've spent a lot more time working with Silverlight and WPF (XAML) in building applications and samples for demos or for my own internal utilities. While cutting my teeth and climbing the learning curve, I saw lots of references...
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Body: On Friday, I was honored to receive the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for SharePoint once again. As always, I'm humbled by the award and inspired to continue my efforts in support of the SharePoint community that we all love and...
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Using the new namespaces for AD stuff is really nice, but MSFT really dropped the ball when building PrincipalContext objects. PrincipalContext objects are used to encapsulate the server or domain which are going to be subject to the AD operations, so...
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With SharePoint 2010 we now have the ability to allow SharePoint to manage various service accounts thus foregoing the need to have IT administrators manually manage password changes. This new feature is a great benefit to SharePoint administrators and...
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Yesterday evening Scott Guthrie announced that Microsoft’s contributions to the jQuery Javascript library were accepted as Official jQuery plugins. One of those contributions is the jQuery Template plugin that allows you to do (up to a certain level)...
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Body: Once you've installed Feature Builder in a Windows XP environment, you may get the following message when launching it. In order to create the required variable, begin by right clicking on "My Computer". On the popup menu, click "Properties"...
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Often times in trivial AD operations using the *.AccountManagement namespace there is a performance hit in comparison to using ASQ approaches. This has been pretty frustrating to me in the past, as detailed here. In my journeys with these objects though...
Filed under: SharePoint, sharepoint development, entity, regular expression, query time, principal object, GetUser, constructor, static-method, dictionary object, GroupPrincipal GetGroup, principal search, spsecurity
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I am frequently surprised (I know, I shouldn’t be really) just how few SharePoint people know about ULSViewer . Often times someone will be complaining about an error they are experiencing, the conversation goes something like this: SPDude, “Hey man,...
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Having had to search for this for hours, combine about 50 different approaches, I decided to write a small blog post on using Windows Search Service 4 in order to search remote shares. First question you probably have is, why the hell would I use Windows...
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I am building a script for one of my demos and just created the User Profile SubTypes and Organizational Profile SubTypes with PowerShell like this: #Get the Server Context $context = Get-SPServiceContext -Site http: //me #Add User Profile Sub-Types #Get...
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