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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 from previous developers and consultants (which will remain unnamed, but ask me at ...

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.  Here's the results: As a reader and contributor, you do not gain access to ...

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 Chris

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 the first years meetings!  Last chance to sign up before the event is here This ...

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.  This will cause this application server to be removed from the load ...

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 is "Forms Based Authentication on classic Web applications has been ...

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 - congrats to everyone by the way), I'd figure it would be good to promote a ...

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 Point, etc)Velocity Sandbox Solution disable (2010) - as suggested by @sahilmalikWhen in an ...

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 access account (weird naming right?), and the service applications get ...

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 account, you can then set the passwords for these accounts from central ...