Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint 2010’

The top navigation menu in SharePoint 2010 by default allows one level. If like me you had created the custom master page by copying over the controls from default v4.master page, the top navigation menu is controlled by the ASP menu control “TopNavigationMenuV4”. The number of levels of sub sites accessible in the top navigation […]

SPPersistedObject is an important element in SharePoint 2010. It’s SharePoint’s main way of storing information across servers and acts as sort of the central brain of the application. Any data stored in it is guaranteed to be there in perpetuity. This makes SPPersistedObject a very useful class, but it’s not without its drawbacks. One of […]

Social component in SharePoint 2010 is actively used in intranets. Users share thoughts, links and documents with other users using the functionality provided by SharePoint 2010. Users can tag pages which are a part of the intranet site or they can tag links which are external. Anytime any of the above actions occur, an activity […]

A little while ago, I was working on a project that needed to display user pictures. These pictures were to be stored in a Picture Library specific to the site collection of the application in SharePoint 2010. If the user didn’t have a picture, for whatever reason, a default silhouette picture was to be displayed […]

We recently ran across an issue a customer was having with the migration of “My Site” content to SharePoint 2010. In their case, the target configuration was Claims Mode using an external STS for authentication. They upgraded their web application to claims-mode, converted the users to SAML claims principals, and then configured the User Profile […]

There are couple of blog posts out there that talk about how to change passwords for SharePoint 2010 manages service accounts. You can do it using the GUI (Central Admin) or powershell.   I actually had to go through this exercise recently, and what I found is that certain service applications will stop working after […]

SharePoint 2010’s rich text editors make it pretty easy to format text and insert media, but they also make it difficult to embed Flash content. In order to streamline the HTML generated by the Content Editor Web Part and other edit boxes, Microsoft decided to automatically remove non-essential tags. Any time we try to embed […]

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In SharePoint 2010, you can use FAST Query Language (FQL) to query the FAST Search Server content index. In this blog, I will show how you can use the Query Web Service and the KeywordQuery class to execute an FQL query against the content index. You need to ensure the following has been completed, before […]

Recently I was working on upgrading a custom router from SharePoint 2007 to 2010. This blog points out some of the deprecated methods and provides details on the new methods replacing it. In SharePoint 2007, IRouter interface provided the definition for the method OnSubmitFile. The OnSubmitFile allows users to process and route documents that are […]

I run into very interesting problem when trying to modify the topology of my search service application. I was basically trying to move my administration component and index role to another server in the same farm, but the wizard kept crashing with TimerJob timeout error. When looking at my target server (where I was trying […]

The Client Object Model (OM) in SharePoint 2010 is great for many things, but it seems that it is not great for adding the first attachment to a list item. The problem is that the OM is unable to create the attachments folder for a list item. When no folder exists, attempting to add an […]