Jerry Orman
Adventures in SharePoint
External List Missing New and Edit Forms
I was recently walking a customer through creating an External Content Type [ECT] that uses stored...
Date: 11/19/2011
Performance Impact of File Attachments in InfoPath Forms
I was recently looking into the impact of increasing the Session State size associated with InfoPath...
Date: 10/18/2011
RSS Viewer Web Part Making Excessive Requests
I was investigating a scenario in which someone was seeing thousands of hits to the destination...
Date: 10/18/2011
Deploying SharePoint 2010 Solution with PowerShell
Put together a small script that to help automate deployment of a solution. The script handles...
Date: 09/28/2011
Reporting Server shows me a SharePoint link I can’t access
When you setup SQL Server Reporting Services [SSRS] in SharePoint Integrated mode, browsing...
Date: 08/25/2011
Testing SSL URLs when using SSL Termination
Here’s the situation, SSL is setup to terminate at the load balancer. Sticky sessions are...
Date: 08/14/2011
Why is my control working even though I don’t have a SafeControl entry?
This one came as a surprise to me. Customer pushes out a master page to all their site...
Date: 08/01/2011
Connection Failed Error Using SQL Reporting Services with Kerberos Based Claims
When you try to connect to a SharePoint 2010 site using Report Builder, you may receive the...
Date: 07/26/2011
SHA512 Forms Authentication in SharePoint 2010
I was recently working through an issue in which I needed to setup the SQL Membership provider to...
Date: 07/25/2011
User Profile Sync Broken After Central Admin URL Change
Took quite a bit of time to track this down. If you change your Central Admin Default Zone Url after...
Date: 05/07/2011
Title Bar Properties Link Does Not Work on Dynamically Created Pages
Ran into a problem recently while helping out on a project where web part pages were being...
Date: 05/07/2011
Add-PSSnapIn Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell Failing after SharePoint Install
I have some PowerShell scripts that run PreRequisiteInstaller.exe, Setup.exe, and then configure a...
Date: 04/12/2011
Broken Images After My Site URL Change in SharePoint 2007
When you setup a My Site picture, the URL to the image is stored in your profile under the Picture...
Date: 04/12/2011
That Profile Property Is Taxonomy’ing My Patience
When you edit a profile in SharePoint 2010, you may be presented with the following error message :...
Date: 03/03/2011
Finding a workflow using an activity
Had an issue come up where we wanted to find all the workflows in a SharePoint 2007 environment that...
Date: 02/20/2011
People Picker, why don’t you trust me?
Working with an environment where the QA and development machines are in a Test domain, while the...
Date: 02/16/2011
What in the User Profile Service Application is going on here?
While working with PowerShell to build out Service Applications, I managed to get my test farm into...
Date: 02/08/2011
Copying Lists with PowerShell in SharePoint 2010
While working through an upgrade issue, we had a need to move about 14 Discussion Boards to a...
Date: 01/08/2011
System.Security.SecurityException accessing TermSet
During some upgrade testing, a customer found one of their custom controls not working in the 2010...
Date: 12/31/2010
PowerShell to change the UIVersion on a subweb in SharePoint 2010
Recently ran into the need to revert a specific web back to the SharePoint 2007 UI after an upgrade...
Date: 12/31/2010
Custom Search Web Parts in 2010
The SharePoint 2010 out-of-the box People Search Core Results web part in SharePoint 2010 has the...
Date: 10/06/2010
For perf’s sake, check-in your XSL files
We were running some load testing on a SharePoint site that will be hosting a company’s portal...
Date: 10/06/2010
Starting UserProfile service with PowerShell
Ran into something interesting while trying to script out a farm install. I was trying to generate...
Date: 09/20/2010
Updating a SharePoint 2007 WSP in Visual Studio 2010
For this scenario, we have a WSP file that was packaged a few years ago and deployed to a production...
Date: 09/09/2010
SharePoint 2010 JavaScript OM Mashup with Bing Maps
BingMashup-Sample.zip I was looking into a map scenario a few weeks back, and came across the Bing...
Date: 08/18/2010
Unable to edit documents in SharePoint 2007/2010
This was a pretty interesting issue as it caused some unique symptoms, as well as closing up an...
Date: 07/14/2010
Self-Service Site Creation Announcements keep showing up
Self-Service Site Creation is a feature that lets end users create new site collections without the...
Date: 07/12/2010
A way to tell if the User Profile Synchronization Service is actually starting…
Something I noticed while staring at the Services MMC while waiting for the User Profile...
Date: 07/11/2010
SharePoint 2010 locking out accounts
The User Profile Service - System Job to Manage User Profile Synchronization timer job leverages the...
Date: 07/11/2010
Missing Links or Access Denied in Central Admin – SharePoint 2010
Started running across this scenario lately, and wanted to post something up as it will make you...
Date: 07/10/2010
Mount-SPContentDatabase failing on Blank Meeting Workspace
Avoid running Mount-SPContentDatabase using the same database name in a single PowerShell window....
Date: 06/09/2010
SharePoint 2010 Desktop Wallpaper
Created this wallpaper out of the SharePoint 2010 logo. It's a PNG file that is 1920 x 1280 in...
Date: 06/01/2010
The web.config is invalid on this IIS Web Site
When you unextend a web application via Central Admin or Stsadm.exe –o UnextendVs on a SharePoint...
Date: 05/12/2010
I thought I left my Site Templates link around here somewhere
Browse the Site Settings of a site and the Site Templates link is missing from the page. The image...
Date: 03/10/2010
Unexpected Error has Occurred
A customer was browsing their SharePoint site and randomly seeing a white page with "An Unexpected...
Date: 03/01/2010
Hyper-V Manager
Wrote this tool when I was setting up my laptop to run Hyper-V. I didn't want to have to open the...
Date: 01/24/2010
Setting up laptop for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007
I'm starting to get my world setup to dig into SharePoint 2010. To do this, I bough 8GB of RAM for...
Date: 01/01/2010
Exception on custom ASP.Net page hosting SharePoint FormField controls
Working with one of my customers and they were wanting to setup an email notification on a custom...
Date: 12/22/2009
Mystery of the SharePoint "White Screens"
Randomly users start receiving "white screen" responses when browsing a SharePoint site. They...
Date: 12/22/2009
My SharePoint Sites displays a link that you no longer have access to
Under My LInks, My SharePoint Sites, you see a link to a site, but when you click on the link, you...
Date: 08/02/2009
Overview of My SharePoint Sites and how the data is populated
SharePoint gives you the ability to get a list of sites that your login account is explicitly a...
Date: 07/30/2009
SharePoint My Site link stops redirecting users to their Personal Site
Hopefully this can save someone some time. The symptoms are: Clicking the My Site link in a...
Date: 01/19/2009
Loading C++ Assemblies in ASP.Net
When you reference a Native C++ assembly from ASP.Net you may run into the following error:...
Date: 08/31/2007
Referencing .js files for the AJAX Control Toolkit
I was recently working with someone that was leveraging the AJAX Extension and the Control Toolkit...
Date: 05/18/2007
JavaScript errors occur...only when the script is in a .js file
This was tricky to track down and hopefully the troubleshooting information will help you should you...
Date: 04/13/2007