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Technical / December 6, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I had a problem with User Profile synchronisation not working any more. The service would be stuck ‘starting’ and I could not access the service page of the User Profile Service any more. A little investigation pointed me to an assembly problem; it was searching for Microsoft.ResourceManagement version 4.0.3531.2. I had no idea why. I
Technical / December 3, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 19
I’ve been struggling for a while to programmatically set BCS columns. Setting the column itself isn’t that hard, but it’s getting all the related fields to show data too that’s a challenge. There seems to be no out of the box method to do this, so I’ve created one myself. Without further ado, let’s get
Technical / August 16, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 0
I never really looked into InfoPath untill SharePoint 2010 arrived. With 2010, customizing your item forms becomes a lot easier to do in combination with InfoPath. Yes, most of this was also possible with 2007, but the way to get there was a bit more complicated. Here’s some steps you can take if you want
Technical / July 14, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
For some reason, the default implementation of the Silverlight webpart which comes with VS2010 doesn’t allow you to set the width to 100% (auto width). You’ll get an error saying “UnitType Percentage is not supported”. That’s kind of weird, since the only thing it really does is set the width for the surrounding object container
Technical / July 11, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
For a project I’m working on, I needed a way to roll-up data across multiple sites. There aren’t much ways of doing that, but one good way is using the SPSiteDataQuery object. This object, which can be used with the object model (not the client ones unfortunately), can be used to fire queries to SharePoint
Technical / June 21, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 7
With thanks to commenter Anu, I can hereby present a way to convert old FBA users to SharePoint 2010 compatible users when converting a 2007 installation to 2010. The easy way is a simple Powershell script: $w = Get-SPWebApplication(“url”) $w.MigrateUsers(true) But this script seems to have a hardcoded limit to the number of users it
Technical / April 27, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 5
Today I was yet again playing around with SharePoint 2010 which is RTM now! I’ve downloaded the RTM version from MSDN and installed it on my workstation. Earlier, I had some problems setting up a claims based authentication site with mixed mode authentication (windows + forms auth). I wanted to try that in the RTM
Technical / April 25, 2010 / Jasper Siegmund / 9
With SharePoint 2010, there are multiple methods of getting data from a list. There’s the object model (client / server side), there’s webservices and there’s REST (which is kind of a webservice itself). With REST, you’re able to get data out of a list and view it on other sites. Those other sites don’t need
Technical / June 16, 2009 / Jasper Siegmund / 3
A while ago, a colleague asked me why her contact details weren’t updated on SharePoint. She got married and thus her name changed. The AD was updated but the changed weren’t pushed to SharePoint for some reason.
Technical / October 23, 2008 / Jasper Siegmund / 1
In my last post, I wrote about enabling access to SQL Server Analysis cubes by specifying an account for impersonation. It now seems that’s not the way to go because I started receiving security validation errors with impersonation set to any account. I think that’s caused because SharePoint detects a difference between the user actually