Hiya A few months back I posted a relatively well behaved rant over the ridiculously complex User Profile Service Application of SharePoint 2010. I think this component in particular epitomises SharePoint 2010’s awful combination of “design by committee” clunkiness, along …
Consequences of complexity–the evilness of the SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service Read more »
Hiya [Note: I have written another article that illustrates a process for migrating the entire term store between farms.] My colleague Chris Tomich, recently saved the day with a nice PowerShell script that makes the management and migration of managed …
Migrating managed metadata term sets to another farm on another domain Read more »
This is really great, and something that’s been a long time coming. On behalf of my partners at Seven Sigma, I’m announcing the formation of the SamePage Alliance. A strategic partnership with Seven Sigma and 21Apps, founded by Andrew Woodward, …
Oh man, it’s just not my week. After nailing a certificate issue yesterday that killed user profile provisioning, I get an even better one today! I’ve posted it here as a lesson on how not to troubleshoot this issue! The …
I have been doing a bit more tech work than normal lately – SP2010 popularity I guess, and was asked to remediate a few issues on a problematic server that I hadn’t set up. The server in question had a …
Index index everywhere but not a result in sight. Read more »
Note: For those of you who do not wish to read my usual verbose writing, then skip to the last section where there is a free web part to download and try out. Unless you are a complete SharePoint nerd …
SharePoint, Debategraph and Copenhagen 2009 – Collaboration on a global scale Read more »
I had a problem this week that got resolved with something quite obvious, but I learned a lot in the process, so I am detailing it here. Symptoms: Using MOSS 2007 SP2 and Office 2003 SP3, users complained that metadata …
Missing metadata with Office 2003 – yet another “duh” moment… Read more »
I’ve been busy on a number of fronts and some of the fruits of that work will appear soon enough, but I thought that I would pop up to let you know about a forthcoming book written by Brett Lonsdale …
New book preview – SharePoint 2007 Developers Guide to the Business Data Catalog Read more »
Hi all If you were going to slot me into a little stereotype box, then you would slot me into the “IT pro” side of the fence. My coding is okay, but my real vein of expertise lay in infrastructure …
I have been a huge fan of Bjørn Furuknap ever since I first read his amazing series of posts on on customising the user experience at SharePointMagazine. What struck me about Bjørn is the quality of his content and his …