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• Just another Don't Do this when Developing SharePoint Blog Post - IT IS NEEDED!

  Ok, you hear over and over and over again, don't do this, don't do that when developing SharePoint. But it seems that not too many people listen to all that wonderful best practice guidance. As part of the eBay project, we inherited A LOT of code Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2011 7:38 PM by cjg | 0 Comments Filed under: Sharepoint, upgrade, development

• SharePoint 2010 Delegated Administration

  Have been wanting to try this for a while now and just now got some time to do it today. The Central Administration site is just a SharePoint site with libraries and links, so I was curious what would happen if you were added to the site as a simple reader. Read More... Posted Monday, December 06, 2010 10:23 PM by cjg | 2 Comments Filed under: permissions, Sharepoint, delegated administration

• Error occured in deployment step 'Add Solution': Property 'SiteUrl' contains an invalid URL

  I found this awesome blog post by Jan Tielens on getting BDC projects to work in RTM. The interface has changed to be much less friendy than it was in Beta... http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2010/05/07/sharepoint-2010-bdc-model-deployment-issue-the-default-web-application-could-not-be-determined.aspx Read More... Posted Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:50 PM by cjg | 0 Comments Filed under: BCS, Sharepoint

• Advanced San Diego SharePoint Users Group (SanSpug.org)!

  It is my pleasure and honor to announce a NEW SharePoint Users Group will be started in San Diego! The formal announcement will be at the SharePoint Launch Party at Karl Strauss. All attendees to the Launch Party will get a complimentary membership for Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:30 PM by cjg | 1 Comments Filed under: Sharepoint, san diego, user group

• Multple BDC Service Application breaks SharePoint User Profile Connection Setup

  Well, the saga continues with User Profile Service Applications. When you have more than one BDC service application the User Profile Service application will barf on it. You get Logging unknown/unexpected client side exception: SecurityAccessDeniedException. Read More... Posted Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:23 PM by cjg | 1 Comments Filed under: Sharepoint, business data connectivity, user profile service application

• Migrating User Forms Based Permissions in 2010 Upgrade

  So not everything gets upgraded in the RTM build of 2010. Seems the usernames and permissions end up getting lost when you upgrade. There are several things you have to do to get your upgraded forms based authentication to work: First error you will get Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:25 PM by cjg | 1 Comments Filed under: Sharepoint, upgrade

• SharePoint MVP MSDN Rankings

  I have had quite a few people ask me how I am able to say when I'm passing someone in the forums. It's simple really, I built a nice parser that pulls down all the SharePoint MVPs with their stats. With the latest MVP announcements (New and re-news Read More... Posted Friday, April 02, 2010 4:08 PM by cjg | 4 Comments Filed under: Sharepoint, mvp

• SharePoint Tool Ideas For YOU to Build!

  Looking for the next thing to build for SharePoint? Here's a quick list from notes over the years: Claims filter web part (2010) This would present a set of registered claims to be used in BI solutions (Excel Services, Report Services, Performance Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:13 AM by cjg | 0 Comments Filed under: tools, Sharepoint

• SharePoint 2010 install accounts

  This has been throwing everyone for a crazy loop and its time to clear up what's going on. So far most of my environments have been setup with accounts called SP_Admin, SP_Farm and SP_Service. the SP_Admin is the install account, SP_Farm is the Database Read More... Posted Monday, March 29, 2010 10:51 PM by cjg | 1 Comments Filed under: Sharepoint, install

• SharePoint 2010 Password Change Policy

  SharePoint 2010 has a great new feature for setting your service account passwords for when your AD team has locked down the password policies. In Central Administration you can click Security->Manage service accounts links, and after selecting the Read More... Posted Monday, March 29, 2010 6:31 PM by cjg | 0 Comments Filed under: Security, Sharepoint

• Becoming the Fastest SharePoint Developer in the World!

  Who is it? I'm not sure, but I'm somewhere up there in the top 1% and that lets me charge $200/hr for my time. So why do I say I'm in the top 1%? Because I have this: What is it you ask? It's MY code gen tool. It is the culmination of Read More... Posted Sunday, March 28, 2010 6:47 PM by cjg | 0 Comments Filed under: Code Generation, Sharepoint

• MCT Virtual Summit 2010

  I'm proud to announce I'll be presenting FOUR sessions at the MCT Virtual Summit this year! If your an MCT, you can become a Fan and find registration links on the MSL Facebook page: http://bit.ly/cxtXxt Here's a summary of my sessions: Train Read More... Posted Thursday, March 25, 2010 5:36 PM by cjg | 1 Comments Filed under: mct, Sharepoint

• SharePoint Timer Jobs

  Have I mentioned how much I don't like Timer Jobs? Let me rephrase that, timer jobs that other people write that aren't designed correctly? Yeah, irks me. So we can't say that all the Timer Jobs in the Beta are perfect, some have some issues, Read More... Posted Friday, December 18, 2009 4:12 AM by cjg | 0 Comments Filed under: Timer Jobs, Sharepoint