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2010
Upcoming Search related SharePoint 2010 Webcasts
Date: 9/14/10 Time: 1 pm PST Title: Search Your Way to Success: Leveraging SharePoint’s Search Capabilities in Public Web Sites Partner: Ironworks Consulting Abstract: Learning Objectives & Key Takeaways: Objective 1: Understand the key principles of enterprise search. Objective 2: Understand the evolution of search within SharePoint (2007 to 2010). Objective 3: Learn how to […]
August 2010 Cumulative Update for SharePoint has been released
Yesterday the product group released the August 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process) but the fixes can already be downloaded. As soon as the KB articles […]
Waiting for August cumulative Update for WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 – do you have SP2 installed?
In case you are waiting for August CU for WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007: be aware that this update will not install if SP2 is not installed. Support for SP1 was retired on 13th July: https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&p1=12200&x=12&y=12
The first cumulative update for SharePoint 2010 family has been released (last updated: Aug 9th, 2010)
Yesterday the first cumulative update for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released as a delayed June 2010 CU. Unlike the WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 cumulative updates this first cumulative update is not available as server package but has been released as 6 individual packages. You can download the fixes using the following […]
Write content deployment aware Event Handlers and Feature Activation code in SP2010
I have discussed this topic also in Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API – Part 7 but as this is an important topic for everyone – not only people coding against the Content Deployment and Migration API I though to post it also using a headline that will catch the eyes […]
Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API – Part 7
[Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7] Functionality Changes in SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 includes a couple of modifications related to content deployment and the content deployment and migration API. Export from Database Snapshots In case you already had a chance to use the […]
Same Blog, new Platform
Just a couple of minutes ago all MSDN and Technet Blogs were migrated to a new blogging platform. New Platform: new URL. From now on you can reach my blog using http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossnerNo worries: the old URLs bookmarked will still work as redirects have been added to ensure that you can still reach the bookmarked content. […]
Common problem with SharePoint 2010: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException – Keyset does not exist
SharePoint 2010 has a new feature which recycles the OWSTIMER.EXE process every night – similar to the application pool functionality in IIS – to avoid memory problems inside the timer service. The recycling is controlled by a new timer job which has been added in SharePoint 2010: the “Timer Service Recycle” job which per default […]
Using CSharp (C#) code in Powershell scripts
With Powershell we now got a new very powerful scripting language and many products like SharePoint provide their own extensions in form of CmdLets for administration purposes. Customer like scripting languages as it allows them to write custom code without a need to run a compiler or to copy new executables to their production machines […]
How to add the SharePoint 2010 dlls to the references in Visual Studio
With SharePoint 2007 the DLLs in the 12-hive\ISAPI directory (e.g. Microsoft.SharePoint.dll) showed up on the .NET tab in Visual Studio which allowed easy adding of these references to your projects. If you install SharePoint 2010 you will notice that these DLLs are no longer listed on the .NET tab which means that you have to […]
The April 2010 cumulative update for WSS V3 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday
As discussed by the Office Sustained Engineering group cumulative updates for all Office Products including WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 will be released every second month. Yesterday we released the so called April 2010 Cumulative Update. It is highly recommended to install Service Pack 2 before installing this cumulative Update. Details and download locations can […]