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 [...]
I encountered a very strange problem when saving my first site template recently. I was very surprised when this basic function of Sharepoint 2010 failed so early in my implementation. Sifting through the ULS and Correlation IDs I found that Sharepoint was complaining about an invalid content type name which [...]
One of the first things Sharepoint will ask you to configure when installing is where to put the ULS files (Unified Logging Service). This is were Sharepoint dumps all it’s log files and those Correlation IDs. Used to be a problem to try and find the current log file and [...]
You ever wonder why your Sharepoint environment sometimes just suddenly starts pumping out correlation ids? One of the causes could be some memory leaks in your environment and this typically is caused by custom developed web parts. You are a bit safer with sand boxed solutions, however they also do [...]
So, last week I encountered the dreaded “Data at the root level is invalid” error when trying to re-deploy an existing solution to Sharepoint 2010. I have a standard way of deploying via generig command and PS files and the deployment worked multiple times before. However, between the last time [...]
