Archive for the ‘ SharePoint ’ Category

Update: Programmatically listing delegate controls

In my last blog post I discussed a method to programmatically read delegate controls for a specific control ID within a site. I did come up with a problem with this though – when my delegate controls were listed as a specific control type (with a ControlAssembly and ControlClass attribute in m Control element) they [ READ MORE ]

Programatically listing delegate controls

UPDATE: If you are using this code and can’t load user controls, then check out my update that explains the issue and how to resolve it Delegate Controls are in my opinion one of the cooler things you can use when putting together a UI in SharePoint (and have previously talked about rolling out web parts [ READ MORE ]

Managed accounts in SharePoint 2010

Continuing with my posts on the new features of SharePoint 2010, today I thought I would cover managed accounts. Basically managed accounts are a way of controlling your service accounts through the SharePoint central administration, including simple ways to change which services run under which accounts, as well as an inbuilt mechanism for changing the [ READ MORE ]

Unable to add metadata in the term store management tool

I think this might actually be my first post related to stuff I have been doing with SharePoint 2010, so hooray for me on that one! Basically I have been tinkering around with some of the new features of the product, and one of the interesting ones that I wanted to understand a bit more [ READ MORE ]

I’m a SharePoint MVP!

I got to start the new year with some fantastic news, I have been awarded the MVP award for SharePoint Server! I definately need to thank Ishai Sagi who has been a great mentor and friend, and Ben Walters who worked with me to make the SharePoint Saturday events in Sydney and Melbourne such a [ READ MORE ]

Hiding content from anonymous users

Have you ever put together a master page for a public facing MOSS site and found that you are left with the “sign in” link where the user menu is? Or do you not like the empty tables that get rendered to your sites visotrs that are normally there to house the publishing console? Well [ READ MORE ]

Custom 404 handling in SharePoint

rIf you have ever put together a WCM/Publishign site in MOSS, chances are someone at some point has asked you the question “Can we put in a custom page instead of the default file not  found one?”. In ASP.NET this is easy enough to do, you just update the CustomErrors section of your web.config file [ READ MORE ]

Creating collection objects in PowerShell

Just a quick post on some PowerShell today – I have been doing some work around deplying WSP files through PowerShell (doing it programatically, not through STSADM) and I did come up against one thing that got me a bit  stumped. When you use the “New-Object” cmdlet you need to get it to create a collection object (in my case [ READ MORE ]

Customising table formats for the rich text editor

The rich text editor in a publishing site of SharePoint has got a bunch of different things about it that you can customise, which is great for providing ways for your authors to create content that is going to meet your sites design rules, and yesterday I came across another possible customisation – the table [ READ MORE ]

Updated SPLinkChecker on CodePlex

Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that I have just release v0.2 of the beta for the SharePoint link checker solution on CodePlex. The updates include: Performance improvements to make scans a bit quicker The reports are stored in temporary files until they are pushed back up to central admin, freeing up memory The URLs [ READ MORE ]

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