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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We recently received a couple of questions regarding support for SPS 2003 and IE 8. The supported browsers for SPS 2003 are listed on the following page:http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/techcenter/HA011605151033.aspx?pid=CH011719821033 As mainstream support for SPS 2003 has already ended it is unlikely that support for additional browsers will be added to the product. If support for IE 8 […]
Recently I came across another very interesting coding pattern which is very similar to the interesting SPSite leak I showed a couple of days ago. public void workOnArea(Area area){ if (area.Web != null) { string url = area.Web.Url; area.Web.Dispose(); }} On a first look the code look ok, right? Ok, no try/catch blog […]
The Office Service Pack team officially anounced the upcoming Service Pack 2 for the Office 2007 suite including MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0. The expected release date will be between February and April of 2009. Here are some of the expected highlights for the SharePoint Area provided by the SharePoint Technical Product Managers: Improved Read-only […]
On March 3rd, the first day of the sold out SharePoint Conference in Seattle, Bill Gates will announce, during his keynote session at 9AM PST, Microsoft’s Exchange Online and SharePoint Online services being available on a per user subscription basis to organizations of all sizes. Bill will also announce the Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint and the […]
This download will install and register IFilters with the Microsoft Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the contents of specific document formats. This Filter Pack includes IFilters for the following formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx. […]
In the last couple of weeks I have seen several issues related to memory pressure situations in MOSS or WSS application pools so I think it is a good idea to discuss some aspects of this type of problem in a separate article. What is a memory pressure situation? First of all: what do we […]
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 3 Description of the Service Pack Download location of the service pack Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Service Pack 3 Description of the Service Pack Download location of the service pack
In the past I have heard lots of complaints that it is required to open a support case just to receive a hotfix from Microsoft. A colleague just pointed me to a new webform which allows customers to request a hotfix without calling Microsoft support: https://support.microsoft.com/contactus2/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1410&WS=hotfix
The following KB article gives important information regarding supportabilitly modifications to a MCMS or SharePoint database: https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;841057
