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During a recent deployment of SCMDM I ran into a little snag while publishing the internal IIS web site on the Enrollment Server. Because my client was using an ISA Server 2006 Array I needed to get the exact same certificate on both array nodes in order to configure the Listener correctly. If you follow […]

Here are a few gotchas that I ran into while working with SharePoint search. BETWEEN doesn’t exist: I made the mistake to assume that I could use the BETWEEN clause in my fulltextsqlqueries when it is not usable! Luckily, one simple work around is to use >= and <= instead. I lost a lot of […]

I feel a little silly just finding out this little tip recently as I can’t count how many times I’ve had to manually re-join a Windows workstation or member server to a domain in my life. This is a pretty common procedure as various issues can sometimes cause problems with the secure channel communications between […]

So, we have kind of this inside joke on our team regarding Silverlight after I suggested to a few of the guys that I was going to rewrite the reporting services front end using Silverlight technology. Since then, I have often referred to Silverlight as the solution to any technical problem and offer solutions based […]

Hopefully this blog will help someone avoid spending time scratching their head wondering why their cert request is not working when submitting it to a CA. Some of you may have already figured this out but for some reason this problem never reared its head until recently. The problem and solution are pretty simple. The […]

Anyone who’s attempted to troubleshoot Address Book problems in OCS before has probably at least tried to open up the GalContacts.db file on a workstation running Office Communicator. Unfortunately it’s in some alien language with human strings dispersed among countless delimiters: This makes troubleshooting Address Book normalization operations kind of a pain. But luckily there […]

By now most everyone should be aware that AOL made a certificate configuration change earlier this week that affected PIC communications between OCS users and AOL instant messaging users. Here is the first released blog describing the fix: Office Communicator clients cannot communicate with contacts homed on AOL Well, I just found out that Yahoo […]

The purpose of this post is to hopefully help someone who is experiencing difficulty connecting an Entourage 2008 client to Exchange 2007, more specifically, with Exchange hosted on Windows Server 2008. When the platform was Windows Server 2003 connecting an Entourage client was as easy as enabling WebDAV in IIS 6.0. With 2008 and IIS […]

Usually when installing a major upgrade to SharePoint first you install the update (notably – SP1, The SharePoint Infrastructure Update, soon SP2) then to complete the install you must run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard. On many occasions I have seen the Wizard get stuck on the final step and eventually error out. […]

Continuing a series of posts with examples for provisioning SharePoint elements through an object model, here is an example of how to create a content type using an object model: public static SPContentType CreateContentType(SPWeb web, string contentTypeName, List<SPField> columns) { //create an empty content type and add it to content type collection SPContentType contentType = […]

Creating a Site Column in SharePoint programmatically using an object model In my last blog I talked about how to create a lookup site column programmatically, but I figured it might be useful to have an example of how to create a regular site column. Here are two methods: one for Choice columns and another […]

Provisioning lookup site columns cannot be done through CAML alone. I have seen claims that it could be done (see http://blogs.msdn.com/joshuag/archive/2008/03/14/add-sharepoint-lookup-column-declaratively-through-caml-xml.aspx) but I was never able to make it work when the column to lookup is not “Title” or when it resides on the list in a different SPWeb. I also saw methdos on the […]