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SharePoint 2013 Maintenance Window Notifications

October 14, 2013 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


In case you missed it, SharePoint 2013 introduced a new class named SPMaintenanceWindow.  This class makes it super easy to notify your users of upcoming maintenance to your SharePoint Farm at the Content Database level. I read a blog post by Joe Rodgers a Microsoft SharePoint PFE who demonstrated what can be done with this […]

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SharePoint, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server, Visual Studio 2013
SharePoint Server 2010 Web Performance Test

Web Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP 3

October 28, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


UPDATE: 10/29/2012 – Updated link text for Update 1 from CTP 3 to Update 1 CTP 4 Final I am certain this has been a long standing request from Visual Studio by the community, myself included.  If you’ve attempted this in the past with previous versions of Visual Studio you would have realized quickly that […]

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SharePoint, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server, Visual Studio 2012

SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services Presentation

April 24, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Here is the PowerPoint slide deck for the BCS presentation I did tonight at the Microsoft Federal SharePoint User Group at the Microsoft Office in Ottawa, Canada.   https://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidPowerPointEmbed?p1=1&p2=1&p3=SD25108A9ADA96C9D7!11299&p4=&ak=!ALN0So_2-HeBdk8&kip=1

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SharePoint 2010: Message: A security problem occurred.

October 31, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Message: A security problem occurred. Line: 2: Char: 12311 Code: 0 URI: http://hostname/_layouts/sp.ui.dialog.js?rev=XXX. If the script is debugged in the browser the javascript line that throws the error is a=b.getAttribute(“href”). This error occurred on a client site we support and tracking down the issue was extremely frustrating.  It only happened with clients using IE7 […]

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Copy SPList in SharePoint 2010

September 26, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  We recently had a requirement after we upgraded some SharePoint 2007 Content Databases to SharePoint 2010 to move some of the content (Lists) into a different site template. Some of the lists we had to move were: Discussions Announcements I decided to use Gary Lapointe’s PowerShell Extensions for SharePoint 2010 which were simple to […]

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SharePoint 2010 Master Pages and Page Layouts

September 14, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 2 Comments


  It has been a little while since I we were tasked to build a SharePoint Master Page and Corresponding Page Layouts.  I wanted to go through a bit of what we did and the developers’ working environment. Our development environment (single Virtual Machine with 10Gb RAM) consisted of the following: Windows Server 2008 R2 […]

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CKSDev, SharePoint, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server

Team Build 2010 Customized Output Directories & SharePoint 2010 WSPs

August 4, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 7 Comments


  Before we get started, if you need help configuring your Team Build 2010 Server to support SharePoint 2010 please refer to the following documentation on MSDN.  If you already have a developer workstation with SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 this script will collect all the required files for you to install on your […]

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SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server, Team Build

SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1

June 28, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Sometime today Microsoft will release SP1 in the meantime you can read up on the changes/enhancements that are included like: Site Recycle Bin Support for SQL Server (code named Denali) Support for Google Chrome and IE9 in IE8 Standard Mode Shallow Copy Here is the link to the white paper on SP1: Service Pack […]

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SharePoint 2010 MP for SCOM 2007 R2

May 13, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 3 Comments


  If you are planning an install of SCOM 2007 R2 to monitor your SharePoint 2010 environment (either Foundation or Server) these links will be invaluable to you:   System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 4 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Management […]

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FAST Search Server, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server