SharePoint adventures
A blog about random SharePoint stuff
Content deployment fails with guid conflict
When setting up content deployment, you might need to start from scratch on the destination side....
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 02/16/2012
Content deployment job stuck on preparing
After you have successfully verified your content deployment job on a newly created farm, and your...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 02/14/2012
SharePoint 2010 Master
Recently I had the opportunity to take part in the the 9th rotation of the SharePoint 2010 Master...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 10/17/2011
Deciphering the encoded claims string
During a recent claims discussion, it came up how SharePoint 2010 encodes claims into encoded claim...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 08/23/2011
Description goes missing on editforms
I had some trouble today finding the reason why descriptions set on fields did not show up on the...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 07/27/2011
Beware of conflicting field static names
Recently I came across a problem where pushdown of changes on a contenttype did not work when doing...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 07/27/2011
The good solution for versioning SharePoint 2010 webparts
Everyone who has had the pleasure of working in a team with other developers and using TFS with...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 07/18/2011
DataFormWebPart XSL variables are emtpy
If you discover that a DataFormWebPart added programmatically is missing values in its built in XSL...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 07/06/2011
What to do when SPContext is null but you need it?
Sometimes you stumble upon really strange errors when doing trivial things. When you dig deeper,...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 06/27/2011
Publishing start and end dates are set brute force
When setting publishing start and end dates on a publishing page, these dates will be saved in the...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 04/26/2011
Anatomy of page lifecycles in SharePoint 2010 publishing pages
As most of you already know, SharePoint 2010 brings a whole load of nice publishing features...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 04/26/2011
Setting Modified by, Editor and other fields when versioning and content approval is enabled
Most of you are probably aware that setting fields like Modified, Editor, Created and Author require...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 04/26/2011
The mystery around Excel Services and the Secure store
Sooner or later in the life of a SharePoint admin there will be a time when the dreaded Secure Store...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 01/18/2011
SharePoint and the favicon
Setting a page’s favicon is pretty easy in 2010: <SharePoint:SPShortcutIcon...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 12/14/2010
Error creating a sitecollection when using custom claims providers
Just came across a problem where the creation of a site collection would fail with no real...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 11/18/2010
Using long usernames in profile import
Today I discovered a really weird thing on profile import. If you try to set the connection account...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 10/28/2010
Setting the super user account on SharePoint 2010 and getting Access Denied errors afterwards
By default after installing SharePoint 2010 you will probably soon encounter the following two error...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 09/30/2010
SharePoint 2010 Kerberos Guide
A really comprehensive guide on SharePoint 2010 identity scenarios. It is a must read for everyone...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 08/31/2010
Getting the User Profile Sync Service running on SharePoint 2010
If the User Profile Sync service is causing you constant headaches, here’s a mini howto for getting...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 06/16/2010
Federation extensions for MOSS2007
The Geneva team has just released a package to support MOSS 2007 deployments with ADFS 2.0....
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 06/01/2010
ADFS 2.0 RTW
ADFS 2.0 has RTMed. You can grab it here:...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 05/06/2010
Setting up SharePoint 2010 Excel Services to get external data
Some of you out there might just want to run as far as possible when having to configure SharePoint...
Author: AndrasGaal Date: 05/04/2010