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My Services Delivery and Management experiences, specially in Microsoft Collaboration Products

Guidance on modifying pre-defined content types

I recently worked with some of the best services guys inside Microsoft to develop this whitepaper on...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 08/11/2012

SharePoint Visual Studio Unit Tests and Code Coverage

I spent almost 10 hours yesterday to figure out how to run SharePoint unit tests using VS 2010 and...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 09/17/2011

SharePoint 2010 Best Practices on TechNet

There are series of best practices articles published on TechNet. I got the privilege of working...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 06/26/2011

Import-SPMetadataWebServicePartitionData error in multi server deployment

Before reading this post I would request you to first read my following posts for moving TermStore...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 03/19/2011

Site Collection BackupRestore and Managed Metadata

I recently saw an email on internal DL about things not working if you backup and restore site...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 01/11/2011

Technet Radio SharePoint BCS Throttling

I did a radio show last month with SharePoint Product Manager Bill Baer which went live yesterday....

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 11/19/2010

Import-SPMetadatawebservicePartitionData and BULK LOAD Problem

Today I was doing some research and troubleshooting issue while using Content Deployment used with...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 10/19/2010

Issues with SharePoint 2010 Central Administration running on SSL

I configured my Farm with Central Administration running on SSL port 443. There are couple of issues...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 09/15/2010

Using SharePoint Tagging features with Content Deployment deployed production sites

In this scenario we will evaluate implementing tags and note boards on a site which is target of...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 09/13/2010

Searching External Systems using SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) within throttling limits

Searching External Systems using SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services (BCS) within...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 08/24/2010

Consuming External Data Using SharePoint Server 2010 Business Connectivity Services and Excel 2010 Add-ins

Yesterday was the launch day of the one of the best version of Office including SharePoint. Now the...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 05/12/2010

Accessing BLOB Data from External Systems Using Business Connectivity Services

Ok guys, this is a new feature which I came across while exploring BCS. BCS now supports getting...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 04/27/2010

Connecting to Oracle using BCS

While browsing through BCS documentation came across this section on how to design models for...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 04/24/2010

Business Connectivity Services Client Object Model Calls

I’m writing this post as lot of people seem to have some misunderstanding how the BCS Client Object...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 03/31/2010

List Type Id for External list

If you are creating and external list via code or CAML and need the type id( the Int32 value for...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 03/12/2010

BCS metadata model is case sensitive

As always whenever I find something which is small but useful, I do end up blogging about it....

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 02/09/2010

SharePoint 2010 BCS features unavailable/missing

I just prepared list of features/functionality which are unavailable in BCS. This can be because of...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 01/30/2010

BCS Client Functionality in Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010

Yesterday I was re-creating my farm and ran into an interesting issue with BCS client functionality....

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 01/21/2010

SharePoint 2010 Social Computing Setup

I am a lazy writer and always try to share something which I find when learning new stuff as small...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 01/09/2010

Error Synching BCS External list to Outlook or WorkSpace

"The server must be running MOSS2010 to synchronize external list with SharePoint workspace" I have...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 11/26/2009

Provision an External List using feature (BCS)

Eric shared the xml schema to provision an external list using features. I believe everyone will...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 11/24/2009

Client SSO in BCS

As all of you guys must have seen by now that BCS let's you use BCS OM from client Office...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 11/17/2009

Dynamically changing master pages in SharePoint Server 2007

Summary: Learn how to dynamically change master pages in a SharePoint publishing site on the fly....

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 11/01/2009

Consuming External data using SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services(BCS) and Office Excel 2010 Add-In

In this walkthrough you will learn how to use Sharepoint Server 2010 Business Connectivity...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 10/20/2009

SharePoint 2010 Introduced at SPC09

The most exciting release in SharePoint history has been introduced to the general community at...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 10/20/2009

Introducing SharePoint 2010

Come monday and the biggest SharePoint mela is going to start in Vegas on Oct19th, the SharePoint...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 10/15/2009

SharePoint 2010 Ignite Training for Partners

If you are interested in kick starting and be ahead of the curve then do attend the Ignite training...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 09/13/2009

Getting the SharePoint MCM Certification

Couple of days back program manager for SharePoint MCM did a post on master blog about new Masters....

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 07/25/2009

Problem mapping user profile properties

One of my colleague pinged me with a strange problem he was encountering in user profile property...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 07/04/2009

Update on FBA support with Office Client

If you have worked with SharePoint FBA and have seen the issues with Office client, there is some...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 06/11/2009

BlobCache Demystified

Just read Stefan's post on blob caching. Very interesting to know that it's not a publishing only...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 06/08/2009

Updating Content Types Custom Edit, View Displayforms

I spent whole day yesterday to update the custom edit forms for a content type. Well, I was writing...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 06/08/2009

SharePoint Exams..Passed!

Just passed the two new SharePoint IT Pro exams... 70-630 WSS 3.0 Configuring and 70-631 MOSS 2007...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 03/03/2007

Extending Stsadm Command

While going through the WSS v3 Object Model, I came across an important interface ISPStsAdmCommand....

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 11/10/2006

SharePoint Designer doesn't change Site Setting Page

Pages in the _layouts directory are not affected by changes done to Master Pages using SharePoint...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 10/08/2006

.Net Framework 3.0 RC1 out[includes WF RC5]

After a long wait finally .NET Framework RC1 is out. What it means is the release of Worlflow...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 09/02/2006

Sharepint Discussion webpart-Can we do it better

Recently I am doing a sharepoint implementation for my client. Had a requrement to implement custom...

Author: tajeshwar singh Date: 02/02/2006