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Technical / November 8, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
The Enterprise Content Hub (ECH) is a SharePoint mechanism which allows us to reuse / distribute content types across multiple site collections. Normally, a site content type (what’s in a name), is bound to the site collection in which it was defined. Actually, when defining a content type on a lower level (subsite), it can only
Technical / October 2, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 2
When using Nintex as a workflow engine, you can create multiple content databases and associate them with your web applications and / or site collections. One reason you might want to do this is back-up and restore. When you want to team up your workflow status with the items you’re restoring, you only have the
Technical / July 10, 2013 / Jasper / 0
I ran into a weird problem today, when editing a document set. I created my own content type inheriting from the default Document Set. I added a new content type to the set and wanted to delete the default “Document” reference. I got an error telling me: “Content Type is in use”. Strange, since I
Technical / June 17, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
In SharePoint 2013, rolling up content has changed a lot. The Content Query Web Part is gone, which in my opinion is a GREAT thing. There are some new webparts to replace it, which are based on search. One of those webparts is the Pages webpart. You can use that to show an overview of pages.
Technical / June 6, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
At my current job, I’m more of an administrator than I am a dev. It’s quite enlightening to be honest. As a developer, you don’t tend to think that much about site structure, governance and all those things. Not that I had no experience in that, but I surely have learned some things extra since
Technical / April 25, 2013 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I am a big fan of keeping things clean. The more you clutter, the more chance of faults you might not have expected. Today, I learned that sometimes cleaner is not better. I like using the blank site template to create new sites. Most people tend to use the team site, but that already has
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 / 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
Technical / September 24, 2012 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
As described in my previous post, a SharePoint app gets its own Web instance in which it lives. For the SharePoint engine, that means getting rid of your app is easy: just delete the web and everything is gone. The web gives you the option to deploy regular SharePoint stuff like lists and columns. But