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 […]
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 […]
The product group has released updated packages for the October 2010 Cumulative Update. The new packages contain a fix for the problem reported earlier. The updated fixes can be be found at the following locations: KB 2394323 – SharePoint Foundation 2010 – only listed for completeness as this fix was not affected by the Problem and […]
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
Recently we discovered a problem related to user profiles when installing the October 2010 CU for SharePoint Server 2010. The October Cumulative Update makes some changes and updates to the user profile database. Unfortunately there are certain situations where this update does not complete as expected and leaves the update in an inconsistent state. This causes […]
The product group recently launched some additional product-specific update pages for the 2010 product family which you might want to bookmark: Updates for SharePoint 2010 Products Updates for Project Server 2010 – live since October 19th Updates for Enterprise Search Products – live since October 24th Related Links: Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related […]
