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July 2010 - Posts

• Forefront Protection for SharePoint 2010 - What does it filter?

  I had a student ask me the other day if ForeFront would filter "Tags", "MetaData" and the various other new Social networking features of SharePoint 2010. I know it will filter the content of a document, but the metadata and tags...interesting Read More... Posted Friday, July 30, 2010 2:28 AM by cjg | 4 Comments Filed under: SharePoint 2010, metadata, ForeFront 2010, Tags

• Document Set Metadata - How does it work?

  I had a student ask me the other day, does a document set get the metadata at the document set level? I didn't know the answer...until now! Let's start with a simple search on sanspug.org for "docset", we get nothing Enable document Read More... Posted Friday, July 30, 2010 12:35 AM by cjg | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint 2010, document sets

• More Forms Authentication Madness

  Every time you apply an update or change some setting in Central Admin, the Root web.config file gets updated to add the <clear/> element back into the providers. If you are using the machine.config file to propagate your membership settings, then Read More... Posted Thursday, July 29, 2010 3:09 PM by cjg | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint 2010, forms auth

• SharePoint 2010 Forms Authentication Migration (For Developers)

  For IT Pros, it is simple to setup the Forms Auth in SharePoint 2010. However, when a system is migrated to 2010 that uses the Membership Provider generic factory classes extensively...all hell breaks loose! The class definition for the Membership provider Read More... Posted Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:47 PM by cjg | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint 2010, forms auth

• SharePoint Search Administration Component Error

  If you get an error when creating your SharePoint Search Service Application manually, it is because the manual creation doesn't set the proper permission on the databases created (but the Farm Config Wizard does). You need to add "Database Owner" Read More... Posted Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:44 PM by cjg | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint 2010, sharepoint search

• The first cumulative update for SharePoint 2010 family has been released

  Pointer to the blog by Stephan , so happy this has been released, been waiting for some of these fixes! Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010: KB 2028568 – Download Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010: KB 983319 – Download KB 983497 – Download Read More... Posted Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:01 PM by cjg | 3 Comments Filed under: SharePoint 2010

• Installing SharePoint 2010 Error

  Recently I was doing yet another install of SharePoint 2010 and the pre-requisite installer would keep failing on the IIS/Application server setup. It simple wouldn't run. I looked at the log file and there was nothing apparent in the log file that Read More... Posted Thursday, July 01, 2010 5:25 PM by cjg | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint 2010