During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things – which are not worth a separate post to talk about. To still share them with you I have decided to publish such articles as a link list on my blog in a new Picks of the week category. Here is […]
Today I analyzed an interesting problem related to mixing Selective Deployment and Quick Deployment. Background Info I explained the concepts of Quick Deployment in the following article: Content Deployment – The complete Guide – Part 5 – Quick Deployment To summarize: Each enabled Quick Deployment job that originates in a specific site collection is referenced […]
Since the early times of SharePoint we receive support cases where a customer receives the following error message when using custom code with SharePoint: "The Web application at http://server:port/ could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to […]
Unlike “Before” event (e.g. ItemAdding, ItemDeleting) “After” events (e.g. ItemAdded, ItemDeleted) in SharePoint usually fire asynchronously on a different thread then the http request. That means that the HttpContext and HttpRequest objects cannot be retrieved in these events as they do not exist on the current stack. That means that there is no way to directly […]
In the past I had a couple of cases where users received the following error message: The site is not valid. The ‘Pages’ document library is missing. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated […]
The product group released the August 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. August CU for SharePoint 2010 should be available in a couple of days. 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 […]
The product group released the June 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. Be aware that the June Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that the fixes included in June CU are not part of SP1 and that you have to install SP1 first and then […]
The product group released the April 2011 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 are […]
We just had a support case where a customer was trying to use Client Certificate authentication with SharePoint 2010. Client Certificate authentication was a supported authentication method in SharePoint 2007 but with SharePoint 2010 client certificate authentication it is not supported and there are also certain scenarios where using client certificate authentication will not work […]
I recently received a question regarding site and system master pages in SharePoint. It seems that the purpose of these two master pages is not clear to everyone so here is a short summary: By default the following rule applies: Site Master Pages: used by all publishing pages – and only by publishing pages System […]
Finally also the February 2011 CU for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released. The MOSS 2007 fixes have been released rougly two weeks ago. Some of 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 […]
Yesterday the product group released the February 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The Februray 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 will be released in a couple of days. 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 […]
