Today I was working on some SharePoint master pages and I noticed that the search scopes dropdown was gone. After searching around in the site collection administration settings I found a setting under the ‘search settings’ link. The property ‘Site Collection Search Dropdown Mode’ can be set to several options. Default this property is set…
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. It is really a must read: SharePoint’s Sasquatch…
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 only hide custom actions that have been created with a CustomAction schema file. The ‘Create…
Almost two years ago I started “Blog About SharePoint” to blog about SharePoint related subjects. The last couple of months my focus has changed to more Microsoft products so I have created a new blog called “Microsoft Playground“. Microsoft Playground will be a blog for articles regarding all kind of Microsoft technologies. I hope you…
A long time ago I wrote an article about hiding the create site action within the site actions menu for SharePoint 2007. Within SharePoint 2010 you hide the custom actions the same way. Only finding the Id’s is a little bit different. In the preceding article I stated that you can find the id’s within…
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 Framework 3.5, Windows Workflow Foundation Applications…
A few weeks ago I tried to set up a SharePoint farm that uses Kerberos authentication. I always thought it was just a setting in SharePoint but infect it is much more than that. What is Kerberos Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol, which allows nodes to communicate over a non secure network to…
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 to add the a icon are (example with a pdf icon): Copy the .gif file that…
It can occur that you want to add a property to the property collection of the user profile store by using a feature. If you want to use a feature you would have to create a feature with a FeatureReceiver. In the FeatureReceiver you would have to implement the FeatureActivated and FeatureDeactivating. The feature.xml file…
Within SharePoint there can be situation in which you would like to start a workflow through code, like in an event receiver. But how do you start a workflow trough code? In the following minutes I will explain how you can accomplish this. Before you can start a workflow you will have to have a…
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 Server SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in…
Today I received the strangest error when I was configuring my SharePoint Virtual PC to crawl my websites. The crawler inserted a error for each web application containing the following text: Access Denied. Since this was a new environment and I certainly know that the accounts where set correctly I was a bit amassed about…