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SharePoint Memory Leak
A few day’s ago I stumbled on a article about SharePoint Memory leaks because we were looking at memory leaks for 1 of out clients. I found a great article from Todd Carter about a giant memory leak within SharePoint that he found just a month ago.   Read More...
Failure in loading assembly
In the application event log I found several errors that were pointing to assemblies that I wasn’t using anymore. The error looks like the message below: Error: Failure in loading assembly: Assembly, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=Token. Read More...
Hiding the ‘Create Site’ option in the Site Actions menu
Within SharePoint you have something called custom actions . You can use custom actions to create custom menu items within SharePoint. Besides custom actions you also have hide custom actions to hide custom actions. With the hide custom actions you can Read More...
Deploying multiple wsp packages with one installation file
Today the public beta of SharePoint 2010 is released and everyone started blogging about SharePoint 2010. I am still preparing a Virtual Machine because the beta does not fully works on a Windows Server 2008 R2 installation and I had prepared a virtual Read More...
Prompting for Credentials
Often people ask me a question why Windows keeps prompting to login when you open a document from SharePoint. To automatically login you can change the settings that I have written down in this blog post: SharePoint prompts to login multiple time when Read More...
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2
A few days ago I started setting up an internal development environment for SharePoint. This environment needed to exist of a Domain server, Database server and of course a SharePoint Server. The R2 of Windows Server 2008 was just released so I thought Read More...
Fully certified SharePoint Specialist
It took me long enough to get all off the WSS and MOSS certificates but today I finally passed the last exam (Configuring Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 : 70-631) and I have to say that that is one of the hardest exams for a developer. Know up to .NET Read More...
Information Management Policy Configuration
In 2008 I wrote a post about testing your custom expiration policy ( here ). In this post I explained that the expiration policy is only runs once day what is correct (depends on the setting in Central Administration), I also describe that you can’t run Read More...
Feature for adding a Icon to your SharePoint farm
On the internet you can find several articles about how to add an icon to the SharePoint farm.. Microsoft also has a KB article that describes how you can accomplish it. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/837849 The steps that have to be taken Read More...
Branding a SharePoint site – Part 2
Last week I wrote the first article in a series of articles about branding your SharePoint site. In the first article we discussed how to brand your site and make it available within SharePoint with a TimerJob. In the following article we will make our Read More...
Branding a SharePoint site – Part 1
Within SharePoint and WSS you have the possibility to brand your site. You can do this on several ways: A custom style sheet. A custom theme. I think the best way to brand your SharePoint site is to create a custom theme. You can create a theme by copying Read More...
SharePoint Service Pack 2
Yesterday Service Pack 2 was released for SharePoint. In my post “ Office Service Pack will be available on 28 April ” you can read about some changes that are included in the service pack. More information about the Service Pack can be found in the KB Read More...
Office Service Pack will be available on 28 April
The Microsoft Update Product Team Blog announced today that Office Service Pack 2 will be released on 28 April this year. The formal changes you can aspect for the server products are: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Read More...
Removing the Contextual Search items from the Search Drop Down Box
For one of our clients we were looking for a solution to remove or replace the search result page that is used by the contextual searches from the Search DropDownBox. This because the contextual search let to a page “/_layouts/osssearchresults.aspx” or Read More...
February Cumulative Update
The new cumulative update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services is available for you to apply to you server farm. The Microsoft SharePoint Team blog states: “However, unless customers are affected by the problem described Read More...
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Maik van der Gaag

Maik van der Gaag
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