There are some things you can always count on when spring rolls around – bad weather at an outdoor wedding, one last cold snap before the days get long, fresh grass to mow, and somebody you know pulling an April Fools joke in very poor taste. But the best thing to look forward to every […]

It’s that time of year again – TechEd North America is right around the corner. This year the conference is being held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 16th through the 19th. As usual, there will be a lot of good content but this year we have a special treat. Rob Bogue and I will be presenting […]

While working on an application which uses SharePoint 2010 claims, I came across a strange error trying to create a password change web part for users who had forgotten their password (and, consequently, can’t log in so they need to change their password without any kind of system identity). I assumed – wrongly – that […]

I recently ran into what should have been a well-documented and easily corrected search issue in SharePoint (2010 but the same could be said for 2007). The basic scenario was a public-facing publishing site with an extended zone for anonymous users (the default zone was configured for NTLM). Search worked find for authenticated users but […]

I’ll be presenting a crash course in SharePoint Capacity Planning on December 15th, 2010 as part of Idera’s Secrets of SharePoint webinar series. We’ll mostly be discussing SharePoint 2010 but many of the concepts apply to 2007 as well so don’t miss out even if you aren’t planning an upgrade soon. Things kick off around […]

During the long and painful process of transferring this blog from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010, I came across a couple of annoying problems.  Fortunately, the most annoying problem was quite easy to solve. When I copied the old list items over, they showed up in the new list with an approval status of "Pending", preventing them […]

Blogging has been light lately as I’m in the process of moving our public web site and blogs to SharePoint 2010 (which should be done soon).  For those of you who attended my presentations at the SharePoint Exchange Forum 2010 in Stockholm, Sweden, the code and slides are now available:   Developing Dynamic Applications with […]

There are a number of different ways to create customized MOSS publishing sites – through the web UI, SharePoint designer, Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint, and so on.  But sometimes these aren’t enough – you just have to build it from scratch yourself.  This means diving into the world of custom site definitions, features, xml […]

Another TechEd done and dusted and what a great one it was. I enjoy New Orleans so having it there was a lot of fun (except the heat and humidity – that was a bit rough). There was a ton (or tonne, for my UK mates) of 2010 content. I didn’t get to see many […]

My good buddy Mark Rackley is hosting the 2nd annual SharePoint Saturday Ozarks event in Harrison, Arkansas on June 12 – 13. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it this year (a fact which I’m sure the Hotel Seville is thankful for as their stock of Corona may last more than a few hours […]