Microsoft Tech Blogs
These are blogs on various products that Microsoft has and I have worked on :)
Weird Webpart Error on one WFE
Hey All, So I was working with my customer and suddenly in one of the environment with SharePoint...
Date: 06/12/2013
Document Set Site-collection restore to non-root site collection errors File not found
So I was helping a friend of mine where he reported a problem about the restore: He moved the site...
Date: 10/10/2012
SharePoint Error after migrating to SP 2010 from MOSS 2007 Item is no longer available
We migrated our SharePoint 2007 WCM Publishing site collection to SP 2010 and we used DB attach in...
Date: 08/10/2012
Content Type Hub and Content Type Inheritance
I was trying to find details on why my out of the box Content Types (Publishing Pages, etc.) were...
Date: 06/15/2012
MOSS_Export phase FIM Full Sync Eats up all Memory
Keywords for search:- SharePoint 2010; MOSS_Export; Full Sync; Out of Memory; FIM; Hello All, I have...
Date: 05/31/2012
The server method ValidateTerms failed on EditProfile Page
We have a content Farm and Enterprise Services (ESS) Farm (where UPA is hosted), content Farm...
Date: 04/04/2012
AssociatedOwnerGroup in SharePoint
Every Site has 3 Site Groups that are associated Site Groups: Visitors (AssociatedVisitorsGroup),...
Date: 07/01/2011
Page class SP 2010 Sandbox Solution
We were trying some simple code in SharePoint 2010 and with a Sandboxed solution, the same code...
Date: 06/23/2011
Sharepoint 2007 DirectoryNotFoundException
Yesterday we were working on one of the site-collection and it was having some issues on the...
Date: 07/14/2010
SharePoint 2010 Remove the IE 6.0 warning
Recently there was a question asked on our internal DL around removing the IE 6.0 warning that pops...
Date: 06/26/2010
Getting Application error when Multiple Images Upload
My customer was trying to do a Multiple Upload of Images in SharePoint 2007 and unfortunately it was...
Date: 06/01/2010
MOSS 2007 Search Scopes Lost after Restore
We were trying to restore a backup of one of our Site collections from PROD onto our TEST VM and...
Date: 04/19/2010
SharePoint 2010 Content Type Subscriber Timerjob
By now most of us know that in SharePoint 2010 we have Metadata Services which help us manage the...
Date: 04/03/2010
Sharepoint 2010 Content Deployment
This is a very small and simple blog that I thought of writing for content deployment in SharePoint...
Date: 03/28/2010
Some SP2010 Links
Following are some of the important SharePoint 2010 links: SP2010 End User Training:...
Date: 03/15/2010
How to find who created a site on a MOSS 2007
How to determine (find) who created a site on a MOSS 2007 One of my colleague had asked query...
Date: 03/13/2010
Site Collection Administrator on a FBA getting Access Denied
Site Collection Administrator on a FBA getting Access Denied errorsSite Collection Administrator on...
Date: 03/13/2010
Audiences in Inter Farm SSP (Sharepoint 2007 / MOSS)
Audiences in Inter Farm SSP (Sharepoint 2007 / MOSS) We were doing some brain storming on Sharing...
Date: 03/13/2010
Programmatically provision hostheader site collection (MOSS/Sharepoint 2007)
Programmatically provision hostheader site collection (MOSS/Sharepoint 2007) I was looking for a...
Date: 03/13/2010
Modifying SPThemes.xml Programmatically to deploy new Themes MOSS 2007
Modifying SPThemes.xml Programmatically to deploy new Themes MOSS 2007 (WSS 3.0) One of my colleague...
Date: 03/13/2010
Jscript RichHTMLField control sharepoint Page Layouts
We are working on a Publishing portal (MOSS / Sharepoint 2007) and we had a requirement to allow the...
Date: 03/13/2010
MOSS custom navigation provider
Has there been a customer requirement for you where you wanted to create the left or Top navigation...
Date: 03/13/2010
MOSS publishing sites
I thought of sharing some of the important and useful links for Publishing sites: Following command...
Date: 03/13/2010
MOSS out of the box webparts
Following is the list of out of the box web-parts available in Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS). This list has...
Date: 03/13/2010
MOSS XSLT weather webpart
One of my Colleagues happen to ask me how do we show the weather web-part on our Sharepoint Portal....
Date: 03/13/2010
MOSS training
So one of my colleagues happened to ask me if we have any public links for end user training on...
Date: 03/13/2010
Exploring the Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.Licensing information
Have you ever had a need to explore whats the expiration date of the trial version of MOSS you are...
Date: 08/12/2009
How to determine (find) who created a site on a MOSS 2007
One of my colleague had asked query regarding how to find out the user who created the site in...
Date: 07/08/2009
Modifying SPThemes.xml Programmatically to deploy new Themes MOSS 2007 (WSS 3.0)
Modifying SPThemes.xml Programmatically to deploy new Themes MOSS 2007 (WSS 3.0) One of my colleague...
Date: 07/01/2009
Sharepoint 2007 WSS 3.0 Feature list with GUID
Following is the list of sharepoint features (out of the box) that are available, I wish I could...
Date: 06/29/2009
How to force a wordbreaker to be used in Sharepoint Search
I had a requirement to crawl Japanese content and we had an English Install of Sharepoint 2007...
Date: 04/11/2009
Check Approval is enabled on Pages Library/List
I was trying to locate how to check if the Approval is enabled on the Pages library or any other...
Date: 03/25/2009
Javascript RichHTMLField control sharepoint Page Layouts
We are working on a Publishing portal (MOSS / Sharepoint 2007) and we had a requirement to allow the...
Date: 03/12/2009
Running our MOSS sites in IE-7 compat with IE-8
We had worked on some MOSS portal sites and wanted to make sure the rendering is fine in IE-8 also...
Date: 03/10/2009
Basics facts of Publishing Sites
Wish you All A Very Happy New Year 2009!!! I am working on a MOSS publishing site and thought of...
Date: 01/04/2009
Are you trying to find the details of SPList.GetDistinctFieldValues() method wss 3.0
I wanted to use this method but unfortunately I didnt see any details on the SDK, so decided to find...
Date: 10/14/2008
UsageDetails.aspx and SPUsageWeb.aspx (why some sites show UsageDetails.aspx and not SPUsageWeb.aspx)
One of my colleague happen to ask a question (that his customer asked him) about the Site Usage...
Date: 10/08/2008
Service Accounts to be used for Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS)
One of my customers happened to ask me if we have some set of service accounts to be created...
Date: 08/12/2008
What is the support for Virtualization for MOSS (Sharepoint 2007)
As the KB909840, “Hardware virtualization support for SharePoint products and technologies.” It...
Date: 08/09/2008