Cliff Green's Blog
SharePoint 2013 Workflow Deployment Errors
I was recently working with some of the new capabilities in workflow with SharePoint 2013. I...
Date: 03/11/2013
SharePoint 2013: The directory is not a subdirectory of the root directory.
Odd error indeed. I recently built a SharePoint 2013 farm and everything was OK in the near...
Date: 02/19/2013
Reporting Services Single Sign On (SSO) Authentication - Part 2
The first post in this series focused on creating some core validation logic to validate a user...
Date: 04/05/2011
Reporting Services Single Sign On (SSO) Authentication - Part 1
This will be the first in a series of posts related to setting up single sign on for SQL Reporting...
Date: 03/29/2011
Styling the PerformancePoint 2010 Dashboard Output
Using Dashboard Designer in SharePoint 2010 allows one to build powerful visualizations for end...
Date: 10/07/2010
Common SharePoint 2010 Developer Installation Issues
This is one of those posts you hope will save a lot of people some time, but also a place to store...
Date: 09/27/2010
SharePoint SPUtility.GetLocalizedString() Behavior
I was recently working with a customer with some localization behavior in SharePoint. What I...
Date: 08/31/2010
Manage and Generate the SharePoint Thesaurus files with a SharePoint List (Part 1 of 2)
I have seen a few implementations of SharePoint Thesaurus generators that use various means to...
Date: 07/07/2010
SharePoint 2010 Team Site Wiki Implementation
SharePoint 2010 changed the way team sites worked. Now the home page is more of a WIKI...
Date: 06/07/2010
Threaded Discussion using SharePoint 2007 Web Services
There have been a few comments lately on this post I made a while back on how the threaded...
Date: 03/15/2010
web.config Encryption and SharePoint
This post comes form another question generated from a customer. I have encrypted my web.config...
Date: 01/11/2010
Change in Enabling the SharePoint Developer Dashboard
For those of you exploring the beta of SharePoint 2010 you may be aware of a new feature called the...
Date: 12/13/2009
SharePoint Console Application Permissions for Read Only Access
I was recently challenged with trying to come up with a least privilege scenario for running a...
Date: 08/22/2009
Reporting Services: Value Either too Large or too Small for a Decimal
I have seen a few reports recently that have been upgraded from SSRS 2005 to SSRS 2008 where a...
Date: 04/23/2009
SharePoint CopyIntoItems and Setting a Document Content Type
I can’t take credit or this one, but a colleague I have been working with was able to figure this...
Date: 04/21/2009
Reporting Services Migration Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
In working with a customer doing a migration from Reporting Services 2005 to 2008 an error appeared...
Date: 03/27/2009
SharePoint Tools Released
I work in the ISV Practice here at Microsoft. There are two tools recently released to the...
Date: 02/09/2009
Discover SharePoint Context within an Integrated SSRS report
With SQL Reporting Services integration with SharePoint there may be a need to be contextually aware...
Date: 12/12/2008
Controlling Page Size in a Reporting Services Report
The default page size in the US is Letter, 8.5in x 11in. In other parts of the world A4 (8.3in x...
Date: 11/12/2008
SharePoint Web Part Embedded Resource Permissions
It is a normal expectation for companies to embed resources like javascript, CSS and other resources...
Date: 10/27/2008
Reporting Services: What Happens When I Upgrade
Recently we were involved in a conversation around upgrading from SSRS 2005 to SSRS 2008. The credit...
Date: 09/30/2008
Finding a SharePoint List Template Id
There are several ways to find out the ID for a List. A typical scenario where a list template id is...
Date: 08/04/2008
Unravel the SharePoint Threaded Discussion
The SharePoint Threaded Discussion is a forum type of post. Underneath, like all things SharePoint,...
Date: 07/16/2008
SQL Server 2008 RC0 canonical errors during setup
I was installing the RC0 version of SQL Server 2008 this weekend and kept running into the following...
Date: 07/07/2008
Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically
One of the new features available in SharePoint 2007 are content types. Content types allow you to...
Date: 06/23/2008
SharePoint Webs web service CreateContentType and UpdateContentType
I was experimenting with the SharePoint Webs web service CreateContentType and UpdateContentType...
Date: 05/30/2008
Adding Web Parts to the Web Part Gallery Using the SharePoint Object Model
Since my first post was based on removing web parts from the web part gallery of a 'My Site' there...
Date: 04/18/2008
Understanding event receivers in a SharePoint survey
SharePoint provides great support for creating surveys in your sites. Under the covers this is just...
Date: 04/05/2008
Create 'open tool pane' link in ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts for SharePoint
I was recently asked how one could include the 'open tool pane' link in an ASP.NET Web Part hosted...
Date: 03/16/2008
Removing Web Parts from the ‘My Site’ Web Part Gallery
For my first post I am going to illustrate how someone can limit the web parts available to users on...
Date: 03/12/2008