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• Declaratively Provision Managed Metadata Column in SharePoint 2010

  As part of a project I have been working on we wanted to assign categories to items in SharePoint 2010 and decided to use Managed Metadata . Wictor Wilén has a good post explaining what Managed Metadata is and how to set it up. Like Wictor, I also prefer... Posted Aug 24 2010, 11:25 AM by Iain with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2010

• Windows Server 2008 Desktop Experience feature and SharePoint 2007 "Open with Windows Explorer"

  On my SharePoint 2007 W2K8 development VM, I noticed that "Open with Windows Explorer" wasn't working. Aha, I thought, I'll just go and start the WebClient service, which is what you did on W2K3. Turns out you need to add the "Desktop... Posted Aug 20 2009, 01:31 PM by Iain with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint

• comexception (0x80004005): cannot complete this action when deploying a SharePoint MasterPage as a feature

  I've been working on deploying SharePoint MasterPages and PageLayouts as a feature. There are a lot of good posts out there on how to do this. Everything went ok, the feature deployed and activated fine, the page was approved and I could specify the... Posted Aug 05 2009, 11:53 AM by Iain with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint

• Newcastle SharePoint User Group

  I'm heading over to Newcastle for the SharePoint User Group tonight. It's a whiteboard session on MOSS Architecture. Newcastle SharePoint User Group Hope to see you there if you are going. UPDATE.... Big thank you to John Timney (Cap Gemini),... Posted Jul 03 2008, 02:33 PM by Iain with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint

• SUBST, GAC and SharePoint

  Working with SharePoint, sometimes you just have to install assemblies to the GAC. An example of this I have had to deal with recently was writing a webpart to access methods in the UserProfileManager class. Debugging GAC installed assemblies can be a... Posted May 06 2008, 01:58 PM by Iain with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Visual Studio

• Accessing User Profile Information in WSS 3.0

  MOSS and WSS 3.0 handle user profiles differently. In MOSS, user profile information is stored centrally and can be shared across site collections. Profiles can be manipulated using the UserProfileManager class found in Microsoft.Office.Server.dll. Life... Posted Jan 30 2008, 11:53 AM by Iain with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint

• SharePoint User Group - Newcastle

  Big thank you to Penny Coventry and Steve Smith for presenting at the SharePoint User Group UK Newcastle meeting on Wednesday night. Both were excellent sessions. Penny gave an overview of SharePoint Designer , which if not already, will probably become... Posted Jan 25 2008, 10:09 AM by Iain with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint

• SharePoint 2007 "Friendly" Error Messages

  SharePoint 2007 displays a nice "friendly" error message when anything goes wrong. This "friendly" error message usually provides no useful information about why the error has occurred (sometimes you get an HRESULT). It may be friendly... Posted Dec 20 2007, 01:42 PM by Iain with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint