SharePoint is Flowers and Rainbows and Unicorns

File Location MS SQL Server Management Studio 2008

Patrick Rodgers — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:03:00 GMT

Note to self, SQL Server Management Studio is located here:C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\Ssms.exe

SPSite Equality

Patrick Rodgers — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:53:00 GMT

So lets say, and why not, that you have an SPSite object named site through which we are directing a series of requests. We all understand the importance of calling Dispose() on our SharePoint objects, however there is an interesting wrinkle. For example lets say that we get an SPList from our SPS ... (More)

Working with Folders in SharePoint Lists In Code

Patrick Rodgers — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:15:00 GMT

I'm back baby... After an extended hiatus from blogging I have returned and hope to keep this up to date. Yesterday I needed to create folders in lists and couldn't find any great documentation that clearly explained the process so I wasted a lot of time, hopefully this will save some time for y ... (More)

Diagnosing and Fixing a broken bdc field

Patrick Rodgers — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:24:00 GMT

One of our clients reported that after updating several items in a list with a BDC column everything seemed to break. They could still view the information since it is stored in the list item, however they could not add new or edit existing items in the list as the field was required. The list c ... (More)

Foxit x64 IFilter for Full Text Indexing of PDF files

Patrick Rodgers — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Recently a client requested we install an ifilter allowing for full text indexing of pdf files. Overall a fairly simple process, however the server was x64. Having had success with the x86 Adobe filter I started there, however after trying several times and failing with the beta x64 filter we turn ... (More)

Site collection usage reports not visible.

Patrick Rodgers — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:40:00 GMT

After an upgrade from wss 3.0 to MOSS the Site collection usage reports link was not available to site collection administrators in Site Settings. The fix was easy, ensure that the "Office SharePoint Server Standard Site features" feature is activated at the site level. Once active the ... (More)

Ideas, concerns, and limitations of forms based authentication for SharePoint

Patrick Rodgers — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:49:00 GMT

Just about every client we work with has a custom authentication provider as part of their integration plan for SharePoint. I wanted to cover some of the refinements to architecture for implementing and deploying these authentication providers, some of the general discussion points, and limitation ... (More)

What happened to my robots tag?

Patrick Rodgers — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:23:00 GMT

A client requested we place special robots meta tags into their master pages. On the surface a simple request, just throw 'em in there and good to go. Except they never showed up. It turns out that any custom robots meta tags must come after the SharePoint declared one as illustrated below.

Mark SharePoint Site Collection as Read-Only

Patrick Rodgers — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:27:00 GMT

You are probably aware that SharePoint has the ability to mark a site collection as being on one of four lock states: None noadditions readonly noaccessHowever you might not be aware of a gotcha when restoring a site from an stsadm backup that you don't know was placed in readonly. This i ... (More)

My Site Creation Permissions

Patrick Rodgers — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:49:00 GMT

Not all clients want to use the MySites feature of SharePoint, so often you need to disable the ability to create my sites. I have seen this done by removing the “My Sites“ from the master page but there is an easier way. You just need to remove permissions for these items in the SSP: In the SS ... (More)