A common scenario with Variations is to customize the variation label menu which allows to switch between different labels by using (e.g.) a Repeater or DataList control which is bound to a VariationDataSource. You can achieve this easily by either writing a custom user control or by modifying the existing VariationsLabelMenu.ascx. Code similar to the […]
Yesterday the product group released the December 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 […]
Just today I noticed a new flavor of the frequent Change Token problem: “The changeToken refers to a time before the start of the current change log.” As discussed each content deployment job is responsible to update the change tokens for the selected objects defined in the content deployment job. But there is one scenario […]
One day out and we already have received feedback about a problem with SPDisposeCheck. 😉 Here are the details: Code like the one below is not recommended as it disposes the RootWeb – that is correctly identified by SPDisposeCheck! public void DND_RootWeb() { using (SPSite siteCollection = new SPSite(“http://intranet.contoso.com“)) { […]
We are happy to announce the release of a new version of SPDisposeCheck! SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators check custom SharePoint solutions that use the SharePoint Object Model helping measure against known Microsoft dispose best practices. This tool may not show all memory leaks in your code and may produce false positives […]
My colleague Rodney Viana has created a nice tool which simplifies troubleshooting of permission issues in SharePoint. The tool tests various different settings in IIS and SharePoint and decrypts the permission masks involved when accessing a specific SharePoint Url.A must have! See here for details:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rodneyviana/archive/2010/11/11/application-to-check-cascade-access-rights-for-a-particular-user-or-anonymous-user-in-sharepoint.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0&CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
Yesterday the product group released the October 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 […]
In the past I have written a post about Blob Caching and some of the limitations when using this method: MOSS 2007 Blob caching and it’s limitations In a recent service request my collegue Gyorgy Homolya worked on a performance problem which affected the site always at a specific time at a day. Analyzing some […]
Cross posting info about an important update for ASP.NET which will address an issue that affects all ASP.NET applications including SharePoint and MCMS. [cross post from Microsoft Security Response Center blog] Today we provided advance notification to customers that we will release an out-of-band security update to address the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 2416728. […]
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 […]
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
Part 1 – The BasicsPart 2 – The Basics continuedPart 3 – ConfigurationPart 4 – CommunicationPart 5 – Quick DeploymentPart 6 – LoggingPart 7 – Change Token BasicsPart 8 – Job and Change TokenPart 9 – Job and Timerjob Relationship between Job and Timerjob How many Timerjobs per Job? Each content deployment job (class ContentDeploymentJob) […]
