SharePoint usually fires two different events for each operation: a “before” event which fires before the operation has been performed and an “after” event which fires after the operation has been performed. The before event is always raised on the same thread as the operation itself and allows to modify the operation to be performed […]
Per default all space characters entered for the url name are converted to a “-” sign. This is usually a good idea as reading something like “My-Press-Release.aspx” looks better than “My%20Press%20Release.aspx”. But some companies have a requirement to use space characters even in Url names of publishing pages. The option to allow space characters in […]
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 the Picks of the week category. Here are the […]
The product group released the delayed October 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2010 product family. Be aware that the October Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the October CU. The KB articles for October CU (2007 and 2010) can be […]
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 the Picks of the week category. Here are the […]
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 the Picks of the week category. Here is the […]
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 the Picks of the week category. Here is the second […]
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 […]
Special thanks to my colleague Tehnoon Raza for collecting the following information: Summary On September 13, 2011, Microsoft released security bulletin MS11-074 – Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Elevation of Privilege. The security bulletin had a security rating of Important. Packages released as part of the security bulletin have been targeted at various different […]
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 […]
