Sharepoint 2010 has added some nice new features and support for mobile devices. However by default any mobile device that hits your site still gets redirected to the default mobile screen which is linked to the “All Site Content” page. With the current penetration and use of SmartPhones this is [...]
Ok, so this is one of those annoying errors which make you think about Microsoft QA and QC. Simple scenario: I create a basic site (meeting workspace in this case), chanage one or 2 lists with no complicated features. I save the site as a site template and then go [...]
I recently reinstalled with the Windows 8 RTM version (including Office 2013 Preview, VS2013) and thought I would add some Windows 8 posts. The Good: – ISO images: No more need for those freeware image mounting applications….right-click and mount – PDF: Getting closer and closer to not having anything Adobe [...]
Ok, so I know this has nothing to do with Sharepoint, but it’s one of those things that gets geeks excited and should be shared. We often integrate and work with Active Directory and today we needed to see when a user last logged onto the domain. Now I am [...]
This post will cover how to use and call WCF services without complicated methods to update your web.config\app.config. When you add a WCF service reference to your code it generates all the endpoints in your project’s app.config file. For web parts this is a problem as each web part does [...]
I thought over the next couple of weeks I can share some development\coding topics on Sharepoint 2010. Starting with: “Invalid data has been used to update the list item. The field you are trying to update may be read only” This error is usually occurs when updating or creating a [...]
Sometimes when deploying a feature or solution in Sharepoint 2010, either via Central Admin or Powershell script the deployment gets stuck on a “Deploying” state. Generally this is very hard to troubleshoot as it does not generate any errors in the event log or ULS. Restarting IIS or even the [...]
In our environment we have a custom master page for our main intranet site and we want to extend this look and feel to the MySite implementation. So as mentioned before in Sharepoint 2010 there are 2 site collections related to MySites. The first is the main site collection which hosts [...]
My environment consists of a custom development MySite capture form. Part of this configuration is a global Sharepoint list that contains all the profile and AD information. When a user updates their MySite we update the list, the profile and AD to ensure everything is up to date instantly. The [...]
The User Profile Service Application enables you to configure a connection to your Active Directory infrastructure and subsequently configure properties that need to be synchronized from AD to your user profile database. I my case we had a specific need to synchronize the “DepartmentNumber” field in AD to a custom user profile field called [...]
