SharePoint 2010 August Cumulative Update
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Installation, SharePoint 2010 on 2 September 2010
Microsoft just released the SharePoint Foundation Cumulative Update for August 2010. SharePoint Foundation 2010: kb2266423 – Download SharePoint Server 2010: kb2352342 (not live yet) – Download (Updated to point the urls to the correct hotfixes) via: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aaronsaikovski http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner
Federated Search and Twitter
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Search, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 on 31 August 2010
So was trying some federated search the other day, and ended up with a Twitter Federated Search Location. Download the zipped Twitter.OSDX and add it to your Federated Search Locations and enjoy searching in twitter! ( I presume you know how to add a Federated Search Results Webpart to your Search Center ).
Writing your own Trusted Identity provider for SP2010 (2)
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Claims, Code, SharePoint 2010 on 31 August 2010
This is part two of a Multi Blog post on “writing your own Trusted Identity provider / Claim Provider for SP2010“. In the first post I covered: Create a Custom Security Token Service with the Windows Identity Framework SDK In this post I will cover: Create a Custom SPClaimProvider Register your Custom SPClaimProvider Create a [...]
PDF Icon in SharePoint
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Code, Installation, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010 on 27 August 2010
This one has been long overdue. There are ton’s of posts and manuals on how to add the PDF Icon to SharePoint. But I wanted an even simpler solution. Litterly one solution! So here it is! I have created a simple Farm solution. With just one Farm Feature. When activated it will add the PDF [...]
SharePoint and Web.config modifications
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Installation, PowerShell, SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 on 25 August 2010
Ever since MOSS 2007 we all know the Web.Config Modifications Manager within the SharePoint API. But today I stumbled upon this PowerShell commandlet: Add-WebConfiguration. This commandlet is from the IIS7(.5) powershell module WebAdministration. The short version is, you can use this in you deploy script to do Web.Config modifications Example for an AppSettings Configuration Key:” Add-WebConfiguration [...]
Provisioning Publishing Pages
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in SharePoint 2010 on 23 August 2010
On the interweb there seems to be some confusion on how to provision publishing resources through features. Here is what works for SharePoint 2010. First you wil need a Feature scoped for Site (SPSite), put your ContenType module here. And a Feature scoped for Web and add the other modules here! 1. Create a Page ContentType [...]
Writing your own Trusted Identity provider for SP2010 (1)
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Claims, SharePoint 2010 on 19 August 2010
With the introduction of the Windows Identity Framework and SharePoint 2010 it is now possible to have multiple authentication providers on a Single URL on a SPWebApplication. Especialy in an Extranet scenario this is very usefull: Employees login with their AD Account Partners, suppliers, customers login through a (Custom) Trusted Identity Provider ( Like facebook,OpenID [...]
SPModule, install SharePoint 2010 through PowerShell
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Installation, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010 on 17 August 2010
SPModule is a Windows PowerShell module written by members of the SharePoint Product Group in our spare time. SPModule is an example of how we would envision you accomplish various common tasks within Windows PowerShell in a SharePoint 2010 environment.
SharePoint 2010 Site recycle bin released
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Installation, SharePoint 2010 on 4 August 2010
The SP2010 team released the Admin tool we have all be waiting for: The SharePoint Site Recycle Bin for SharePoint 2010 is available for download at http://governance.codeplex.com “The SharePoint Site Recycle Bin is a SharePoint Foundation 2010 solution package that when deployed to a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 server farm [...]
Custom SPJobDefinition and “Access denied” error
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Code, Installation, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010 on 2 August 2010
If you create a custom SPJobDefinition and use a Feature Event Receiver to deploy and install this (Timer) SPJobDefinition you receive an error when you call the Update() method: “Access Denied” How to code and install a SPJobDefinition Paul Kotlyar found this on the subject: “Upon detailed investigation of Microsoft.SharePoint.dll I discovered that SharePoint guys added a [...]
Download a solution from your Farm (SP2100)
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Installation, PowerShell, SharePoint 2010 on 30 July 2010
Wanted to download a solution from my farm. So did it with PowerShell: param([string]$folder) write-host “” write-host -f Green “Get Solutions from Farm – Stef van Hooijdonk – v1.0″ write-host “” $snapin=”Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell” if (get-pssnapin $snapin -ea “silentlycontinue”) { write-host -f Green “PSsnapin $snapin is loaded” } else { if (get-pssnapin $snapin -registered -ea “silentlycontinue”) { [...]
SharePoint 2010 and WSS v4 Cumulative Update 1
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in SharePoint, SharePoint 2010 on 22 July 2010
I do not know how Stefan found this, but it’s here: the first cumulative update for WSS v4 and SharePoint 2010. (22-07-2010) The knowledge base articles are not present yet, so no word on what is updated. Don’t rush to install them just yet (26-7-2010) The knowledge base articles are present now. And the Claims [...]
Microsoft announces the release of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v1
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in SharePoint 2010 on 16 July 2010
Jet Li posted this over at the SharePoint Team Blog: “I am pleased to announce the availability of the first version of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit. In this toolkit we’ve included a couple of tools that were shipped releases and are now adapted to SharePoint 2010, along with two new tools.” The toolkit can be [...]
Claims Based authentication and the Outlook social connector don’t work together
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Claims on 14 July 2010
Following the updates on the Outlook social connector and the Facebook plugin for the Outlook social connector there is one little snag! When using a SharePoint 2010 Web Application for your portal/mysites with Claims Based authentication the Outlook social connector cannot connect to it! UPDATE: SP2010 CU1 fixes this! With Fiddler you will see that [...]
Usefull tools for Claims Based authentication and SharePoint 2010
Posted by Stef van Hooijdonk in Claims, SharePoint 2010 on 14 July 2010
If you want to create a your own Security Token Service that is compatible with SharePoint 2010 have a look here and download the Windows Identity Foundation (formaly known as Geneva) SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c148b2df-c7af-46bb-9162-2c9422208504&displaylang=en This will install 4 VS 2010 Project Templates on which you can base your Custom STS, I used the first one : Part of a [...]
