Jaspers' Weblog My personal blog about me, my work and what I like.
Technical / April 5, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
What I’m going to write about in this two-part article is what could be considered quite a common scenario. Your company wants to expose data to its employees outside of the internal network. Take a mobile app (or Windows 8 app) for instance, which gets its data from a legacy back-end system. In “old fashioned”
Technical / April 1, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
Since Visual Studio 2012, the default installer project was switched for a limited edition of InstallShield. I won’t get into the discussion whether this was a step forward or backward, but it’s there. When you’re building an installer for Windows Service, you might get stuck in the situation where the installer is deploying your files
Technical / March 22, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
This is a topic which comes up more then once when you’re working with the content deployment feature. For those of you unfamiliar with content deployment; it’s basically a process to import and export a site collection in an automated way, across farms if you like to. But content deployment is a tricky process in
Technical / January 31, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
Update 01-02-2013 As seen below in Matthias his reaction, there is already a similar project on Codeplex which I’ve clearly overlooked. I’m currently seeing if we could join forces (although their project is already very mature). So the Auto SP Solution Installer might have a short lifetime and merge into spsd.codeplex.com. Today I published my
Technical / January 7, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
The last few days I was working on a problem reported by a user using InfoPath Service. A browser based form had to connect to the UserProfileService.asmx webservice in order to read some profile data to populate a form. This was working untill the web application was switched to claims based authentication. After that change,
Technical / December 20, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
So you’re building a SharePoint farm which has to have a high percentage of availability. And to get that, you decide to make your databases highly available by the techniques offered by SQL Server. Think mirroring, or AlwaysOn if you’re using SQL2012. Which technique you’re using doesn’t really matter; you have to realise that this
Technical / December 13, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
Today I was fiddling around with Azure once more, this time exploring the capabilities of the Service Bus Relay functionality. That sounds more difficult than it actually is. The scenario comprises of an internal webservice and the wish to make that available through the internet. Many developers will know the troubles this usually gives you. You
Technical / November 22, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
These last few days I attended the SharePoint Connections conference in Amsterdam. Okay, it’s not Vegas, but is was cool anyway. Of course there was a lot of cloud, Offfice 365, app model and more of what we already learned from Vegas. But one really big thing was a statement made by multiple speakers. SharePoint began
Technical / October 22, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
For a testfarm, I was preparing a SharePoint 2013 install script today. Because the farm shouldn’t have internet access, I opted for an offline install. This means you need to download the prerequisites beforehand so they can be installed by the script. So I did and I ran the installer, but it failed on me. Looking in
Technical / September 25, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
As I’m studying for Microsoft SharePoint certifications, I came across the “Remote BLOB Storage” topic. It’s an interesting technique, allowing you to store BLOB files (documents, videos, images, etc.) outside of SQL Server. The main reason why you’d want to do that is performance. SQL doesn’t handle those BLOB things that fast and they fill up