Subhajit's Blog
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PowerShell Must Haves !!!
Following is the list of MUST HAVEs if you are developing scripts using PowerShell,- PowerGUI tool -...
Date: 10/18/2009
Powershell Rocks !!
Recently I was exposed to Powershell for developing scripts to automate deployment steps for...
Date: 10/07/2009
Tip: The untold story of Audit Logs in SharePoint
Auditing events is an important feature of SharePoint. Read this article to understand more around...
Date: 05/20/2009
Interesting Read: SharePoint "Farm Communications"
A SharePoint farm is an extremely "chatty" environment. A lot of inter server communications keeps...
Date: 04/20/2009
Tip: Avoid "bloating" of log files for large content databases during a MOSS upgrade
While upgrading a SharePoint farm to the December Cumulative update, there was an unprecendented...
Date: 03/16/2009
Just Released: 10 Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions
The March 09 issue of MSDN magazine contains a very interesting article on "SharePoint: 10 Best...
Date: 03/03/2009
System.Exception: Server could not create
Recently I was working on ControlAdapters and came across a strange error,- System.Exception: Server...
Date: 01/07/2009
How To: Delete corruption/orphaned records from the content databases
Orphaned records can cause a lot of trouble. The content databses should be inspected on a periodic...
Date: 09/14/2008
Just released - Best practices for MOSS
Prescriptive guidance around the best "design and operational practices" for SharePoint environments...
Date: 08/31/2008
Provision Central Admin into another machine in the same Farm
Recently, I came across a scenario where in the "Central Admin" site had become unresponsive. The...
Date: 08/29/2008
Source code for the Silverlight blueprints for SharePoint is now available at CodePlex
Source code for the Silverlight blueprints for SharePoint which works with Silverlight beta 2...
Date: 08/19/2008
SharePoint Training
Let's spread the word of "SharePoint". There is a whole set of trainings targetted for all kinds of...
Date: 08/12/2008
Document Property Promotion and Demotion
Ever wondered why the custom properties (such as author, title, subject, etc) associated with a file...
Date: 08/12/2008
How To: Construct absolute url for any item using the SPSite object
In the case when we need to get the absolute url for any item, we can make use of the instance...
Date: 08/09/2008
SharePoint Database Schema Information
Lot of us might be interested to know the schema information for SharePoint configuration and...
Date: 08/09/2008
SharePoint Backup and Restore: Same amount of free space required for initiating full or incremental backups
Just observed that during initiation of SharePoint Disater Recovery Backups (via STSADM or Central...
Date: 08/09/2008
SharePoint Best Practices Analyzer 2.0
SharePoint best practices analyzer (available for download from here) is an interesting tool that...
Date: 07/17/2008
SharePoint Backup and Restore : Moving content across environments
If you thought that moving content from one environment to the other using SharePoint backup and...
Date: 05/19/2008
Optimized Object model API code for uploading large files to a SharePoint document library
The following code block contains an optimized code for uploading large files (>500 MB) to a...
Date: 04/29/2008
Hide "Upload Multiple" toolbar menu item
Came across a requirement where we needed to hide the "Upload Multiple" toolbar menu item from the...
Date: 04/04/2008
Avoid enumerating SPListItemCollection object
Enumerating a SPListItemCollection object should be avoided for data querying purposes. for e.g. in...
Date: 03/28/2008
Journey of workarounds
For a DEV guy, it is a common phenomenon wherein he ends up saying "this is not supported OOTB". But...
Date: 03/26/2008