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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Using CloudShare TeamLabs for Dev/Test with TFService
October 14, 2013 
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UPDATE:: Corrected length of trial for CloudShare TeamLabs from 30 days to 14 days. I have been using CloudShare for over two years now and thought a blog post was past due. In the not so distant past I used either Hyper-V or VMware Workstation for all of my various SharePoint development environments and client […]
Continue reading What do you mean you haven’t installed SharePoint 2013 yet ;)
November 24, 2012 2 Comments
The SharePoint Conference is over and I thought my head was going to explode! This conference was packed full of information and details about the 2013 releases of SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premise (I know on-premise is not a real word). 274 sessions if I recall correctly 😉 My first day of the conference I […]
Continue reading Web Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP 3
October 28, 2012 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 […]
Continue readingAdd or remove an index column with or without re-crawling
May 2, 2012 0 Comments
The Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Cumulative Update for December 2011 introduces a new procedure that enables you to add or remove an index column with minimal search downtime. You can download the hotfix at the following KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2597067 The FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Cumulative Update for December 2011 […]
Continue readingSharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services Presentation
April 24, 2012 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
Continue readingThe converter framework returned the following error: CE_BACKENDUNAVAILABLE
November 1, 2011 0 Comments
Actually the exact error message was the following: Errors: The attempt to create a page from that document failed with the following error: Converting the document to a page failed. The converter framework returned the following error: CE_BACKENDUNAVAILABLE Need to publish a word document as web page? SharePoint 2010 can do this out of […]
Continue readingSharePoint 2010: Message: A security problem occurred.
October 31, 2011 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 […]
Continue readingSharePoint 2010: The user does not exist or is not unique.
October 26, 2011 1 Comment
If you are seeing the error message above, chances are you set an incorrect value or values configuring the object cache user accounts for one of your web applications. If you want to reset them back to their default values you can run the following STSADM commands or use the PowerShell script below. Note: %1 […]
Continue readingThe 2011 SharePoint Conference
October 12, 2011 0 Comments
The sessions that stood out for me were the following, here they are in no particular order: From Web Content Management to Customer Experience Management: How to Optimize External Web Site and Deliver a Search-Driven Experience Speakers: Stephen Powers and Leslie Owens both of whom are Analysts at Forrester Application Lifecycle Management: Automated builds […]
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