Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Dev
Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for SharePoint 2007 - MCS consultant based in Montreal and working primarily in eastern Canada.
Making sense of a multi-workload ECM SharePoint installation, Part 2, Planning
Introduction – Review of Part 1 Wow, nearly a year without writing, time goes way too...
Date: 01/04/2012
Making sense of a multi-workload ECM SharePoint installation, Part 1, Concepts
Introduction SharePoint made its name with collaboration tools that integrates very well with...
Date: 01/11/2011
A graphical summary of site metadata options for SharePoint
As we know, there’s no direct options to have site metadata with SharePoint. However, I do...
Date: 11/26/2010
Small bug with Customize your term site columns
I was playing with a site template for an Enterprise Wiki that can be exported to DOCX along with...
Date: 11/22/2010
Don't do SharePoint multi-tenancy without claims-based authentication
As you can see from my 2 previous posts (UPS, host-name site collections and search), I've been...
Date: 10/24/2010
SharePoint 2010 multi-tenants and User Profiles Services : do not sync profiles before adding at least one tenant!
Following my previous post on search crawl with multi-tenancy,...
Date: 10/24/2010
Configuring SharePoint 2010 search for crawling host-name site collection tenants
I’ve been playing with SharePoint 2010 multi-tenancy in the past 2 weeks and I had some issue...
Date: 10/23/2010
This SharePoint farm has pending upgrades error when running New-SPConfigurationDatabase for a new SharePoint 2010 installation
We ran into this problem while setting up some test farms where we’d get an exception while...
Date: 10/12/2010
Adding metadata to your site collection for a complete, secure, refinement-enabled site directory on SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010
DISCLAIMER: This post is provided AS IS with no warranties and confers no rights. This is not...
Date: 08/16/2010
What can work with Internet Explorer 6 and SharePoint 2010
DISCLAIMER: This post is provided AS IS with no warranties and confers no rights. This is not an...
Date: 07/29/2010
Using Delegate Control to customize My Sites
I’m working on a model for having Site Collection metadata and was looking at how to have them...
Date: 04/29/2010
SharePoint Visio Stencil and Template for designing solution packages (WSP) and features
Version 1.0 Release date April 15th 2010 SharePoint Artifacts WSP Feature Content Type Field Custom...
Date: 04/15/2010
Finally, SharePoint Variations propagation doesn’t have to erase all labels!
I read the new article today on the ECM blog entry regarding the new Variations features with...
Date: 04/13/2010
SharePoint 2007 Feature Activator and Manager
Current Version 0.1 Release Date April 8th, 2010 Target platform SharePoint 2007 Format...
Date: 04/09/2010
What SharePoint 2010 looks like with Internet Explorer 6
Update July 2010: I created another entry regarding what can work, albeit unsupported, with IE6 :...
Date: 03/31/2010
Installing the System Center and SharePoint Capacity Planner on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2
I ran into a small problem lately where I wanted to install the SharePoint Capacity Planner Tool on...
Date: 12/16/2009
Upgrading your enterprise to Office clients to 2010 – performance incentives
The last couple years have been very interesting from a collaboration, social, IT, and end-user...
Date: 10/29/2009
Little Central Administration Security Bug with SharePoint 2010
I ran into a little frustrating issue earlier with my Stand Alone installation on Windows 7 –...
Date: 10/28/2009
Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7
I had a mission this week where I wanted to find out how to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows...
Date: 10/28/2009
Error in PortalCrawl Web Service when crawling people with SharePoint 2010
I was playing with User Profiles and Search with SharePoint 2010 and I was getting some odd...
Date: 10/27/2009
Missed out on SharePoint Conference? SharePoint will be at the PDC!
For those who missed out on the SharePoint Conference and are still looking to view SharePoint 2010...
Date: 10/27/2009
One or more types failed to load error when using the SharePoint 2007 Wizard
I have been playing much with 2010 (client and server) lately so it brought me a new problem with...
Date: 10/01/2009
BlobCache, Style Library, and anonymous users
As a follow-up to Chris O’Brien’s posts regarding BlobCache and 304s, which can be found here and...
Date: 08/11/2009
Variation Strategy #2 to remove label overwrites – cancel updates!
In this first Variation Strategy post, the solution was not the most elegant but the only out of the...
Date: 08/01/2009
Reapplying changes from a customized file originally deployed through features
In most if not all scenarios, you will be deploying your files (Page Layouts, Master pages, CSS,...
Date: 07/31/2009
Experiences on using a single farm for developers (WCM)
Scenario: 5-8 developers WCM portal with lots of sites (SPWeb) and pages, but not a large database...
Date: 07/06/2009
Bringing SharePoint Certified Master (MCM) to Canada
On June 1st, I started the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) : SharePoint journey with 16 other...
Date: 07/02/2009
Variation strategy to reduce labels overwrite
There is a lot of discussions and articles on SharePoint Variations which contains good arguments on...
Date: 06/21/2009
Extending a Web Application will redeploy your solutions ... watch for manual GAC updates
I was helping a customer yesterday that had an unexplained issue in production, a Web Part was...
Date: 04/01/2009
Non-extended public AAM will not allow you to set anonymous access
I had a customer that was having issues setting the anonymous access. While they could access...
Date: 04/01/2009
Content By Query issue with audiences filtering
A few months ago, I came across this issue where the number of returned items in a query wasn’t as...
Date: 03/26/2009
Follow-up and solution to the serious performance issue with multiple audiences
A little while ago, I worked on a performance problem for a WCM portal. We reviewed a lot of...
Date: 03/26/2009
Multiple audiences on a targeted content may lead to Page Output Cache flush
We came across this issue lately where performance was degrading gradually and we couldn’t figure...
Date: 02/03/2009
Fixing absolute URLs for all Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) of Content Editor Web Part with a Control Adapter
Hi everyone and sorry for the no-post for several months. My ‘Draft’ list keeps piling but I...
Date: 12/23/2008
How to sort the list of sites in the Create Sites page
In a customer deployment, we had several custom Site Definitions to create (because they have...
Date: 08/20/2008
How to really clear the BlobCache on all servers in the farm
Whoever worked with the BlobCache has wanted to clear it someday (especially when developing or...
Date: 08/13/2008
Content Deployment and Object Reference Not Set to an Instance
We have been having this error for quite some time, and very randomly. It's not that the...
Date: 06/17/2008
The power of deleting Content Deployment Jobs & Paths
For the past few weeks, I have been in parental leave (we just had our first baby girl) and unable...
Date: 06/10/2008
SharePoint Content Deployment Manifest Reader
Note: This post was made for SharePoint 2007 pre-Infrastructure Update -- while I did use it after...
Date: 05/16/2008
Updating site parameters using the API may freeze the variation job
As you probably know if you read my blog, we like to automate as much as we can our WCM portal...
Date: 04/26/2008
Deploying resource files across a farm
I've been looking a little bit more on finding the easiest way to deploy resource files (.RESX) in...
Date: 04/26/2008
Computed profile property with BDC and Web Services
So you are importing user profiles from your user data store (Active Directory, LDAP, etc.) but you...
Date: 03/29/2008
Creating SharePoint webs with Excel and STSADM
This is a follow-up to my Site Definition Helper scripts post. As described in that post, we were...
Date: 03/22/2008
Feature properties, web.config, and feature properties inheritance
My team ran into this last week where I asked to have some properties available to the feature. It...
Date: 03/08/2008
Feature Stapling is really just for out of the box site definitions
A couple months ago, when I started reading about Feature Stapling on blogs (I don't recall the MSDN...
Date: 03/08/2008
(March Update) Site Definition developer helper scripts
The first thing you realize when playing with Site Definitions is that "IISRESET" is your next best...
Date: 02/24/2008
Deployment lifecycle when using Site Definitions and Features (including post production day)
Summary As you have noticed, I've changed my latest SharePoint focus to look at Site Definitions...
Date: 02/23/2008
Debugging Content Deployment issues
(Last updated June 17th with the Object Reference Not Set to an Instance) SharePoint's...
Date: 02/18/2008
Site Definition Viewer - a Windows (.NET 2.0) tool to read Site Definition and Features configurations (version 0.1)
I spent a little bit on time understanding Site Definitions lately, particularly the Publishing ones...
Date: 02/15/2008
To Content Deployment or not to Content Deployment, that is the question
As you probably have read, I ran into a couple issues lately with Content Deployment (Slow with...
Date: 02/13/2008