Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Dev
Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for SharePoint 2007 - MCS consultant based in Montreal and working primarily in eastern Canada.
Make sure you test your Content Deployment after installing SP1...
I have been testing WSS/MOSS Service Pack 1 on a large-scale WCM portal for the past couple weeks...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 02/13/2008
Setting Major/Minor versions and Content Deployment issues
Just a quick heads-up when you want to limit versions in a Web Content Management scenario and you...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 02/13/2008
Beware of SPWebProvisioningProvider when using Variations
I was doing some research lately on how to have a different "Approvers" group depending on business...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 02/05/2008
SPWebProvisioningProvider and ApplyWebTemplate on publishing site definition (i.e.: BLANKINTERNET or custom)
While I am planning to soon blog on real life SPWebProvisioningProvider and Site Definitions in...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 02/01/2008
Central Administration and Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) (issues with Content Deployment and SP1)
A few months ago, I had to debug an issue where Content Deployment was not functioning correctly. As...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 01/28/2008
Real-life Team-Based Development for Web Content Management with SharePoint 2007
It took me a while to come up with everything I needed for this post as I want to make it as...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 01/13/2008
Error when moving a file using Manage Content and Structure if you are not an Hierarchy Manager
I have this little issue here where Authors/Approvers cannot move files (web content pages, PDF,...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 01/11/2008
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. ...while installing MOSS SP1
I ran into some issue on a MOSS virtual machine while installing MOSS SP1. Actually, it was the any...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 01/11/2008
I'm still alive ... and coming up with great content soon!
Hi, I'm still alive and I'm sorry for the lack of posts. I've been really busy lately with...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 01/07/2008
Approve and Reject buttons do not appear on a page for Approvers
I came upon that little bug the other where Approvers couldn't see the Approve and Reject buttons on...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 11/22/2007
Required firewall ports for importing Active Directory profiles with MOSS
In very secure environments, your Active Directories may not be completely available to your MOSS...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 11/21/2007
Incremental content deployment completes successfully with errors mentioning that the name is already is used
I often get the question as to why we have this error when using an incremental Content Deployment:...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 11/20/2007
Content Deployment does not fix links (at import) when the source has been deployed with features
I ran into this last week when making a spot check on the "content deployment destination", the...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 11/20/2007
Slow Content Deployment transportation / TCP connection was forcibly closed
We were having issues with slow Content Deployment for the transporting phase and it was sometimes...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 11/17/2007
BlobCache woes, how to work (clean) correctly with it, and what to expect when using it with SharePoint features
I ran into an issue with BlobCache lately where it was sending incorrect Http headers. Basically,...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 11/17/2007
The access control list on 12templatelayoutsweb.config could not be modified when installing 941422
We ran across this while installing the KB941422 hotfix on a brand new farm : [SPManager] [ERROR]...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/29/2007
Missing Content Types association with variations - an STSADM extension solution
I ran into an issue the other day where all content for most pages where missing when viewing a...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/27/2007
You receive an error when you create a page, as a SharePoint Member, for the first time in a sub-site
We ran into a little issue the other day when using an account with only Member rights (yes yes, we...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/27/2007
Programmatically create a site lookup column in SharePoint
We have automated almost everything about creating a "blank" publishing web site with landing pages,...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/27/2007
Invalid date showing when using a FieldValue instead of a DateTimeField
We came across this bug lately where we had a EditModePanel in Display using a FieldValue to show...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/27/2007
(Updated) Visio Stencils for Sharepoint 2007 Site Structures documentation. Version 0.2.
I've worked a bit on the Visio Stencils I'm using for documenting Site Structures and I fixed the...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/27/2007
Breadcrumbs and Web Content Management
There's a common misconception where some believes that a web site's breadcrumbs are supposed to...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/20/2007
Error after KB941422 : The specified SPContentDatabase has been upgraded to a newer version of SharePoint. Please upgrade this SharePoint application server before attempting to access this object.
After running the KB941422 on my personal MOSS Virtual Machine, I was getting this error in the...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/20/2007
Visio Stencils for SharePoint 2007 sites and servers
I've put up together a Visio 2007 stencil that I use for creating SharePoint Site Structures and...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/17/2007
Content Deployment : The URL "Style Library/en-us" is invalid
I came across this error yesterday while testing a Content Deployment for a customer and had this...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/10/2007
Optional content/fields in SharePoint - quick solution
I had a discussion with a CMS/SharePoint consultant, Eric Fontaine, and he was asking me about...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/08/2007
Small bug preventing from approving in French sites/variations (SharePoint)
One of my co-worker, Philippe Bédard, found a little bug last week that was preventing users to...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/07/2007
My STSADM extension toolbox
Here's a listing of custom STSADM extensions myself and my coworkers have created. Feel free to ask...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/06/2007
Publishing Images are shown in encoded Html/text instead of showing the image - temporary solution
We came across a random issue lately where a publishing image (RichImageField) does not render...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 10/02/2007
Listing all sites per variations - an STSADM extension solution
A little while ago, we ran into an issue with the Variation label creation process; it was ending...
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 09/24/2007
Finally, moved to MSDN Blogs
Hi everyone, I've been working with MCS for the past year on SharePoint WCM & DCM deployments....
Author: Maxime Bombardier [MCM] Date: 09/18/2007