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My simple PowerShell script for finding those troublesome Correlation IDs - Corey Roth [MVP]
ULS Viewer works great for finding Correlation IDs but once you start dealing with large farms, I find PowerShell works much better. A Correlation ID is great but it doesn’t do you any good if you can’t find it in the logs. I put this script together through the help of posts from Wictor and others. Using Get-SPLogEvent you can find pretty much anything you need in the logs, but without the right parameters it can run very slowly.
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Michal Pisarek Feb 20, 2012 Raymond Mitchell Mar 19, 2012 For those of you that didn’t already know – the SharePoint community is incredibly active. This week alone there are 25 events going on that I know of! Many of these events are freely available User Groups, SharePoint Saturdays, and webcasts. Geoff Varosky Mar 14, 2012Now that I'm seeing more and more public internet facing websites and blogs that are built in SharePoint 2010, I'm seeing more and more really bad SharePoint sites. Full disclosure: One of my passions is user interface design, and I do realize that not everyone has that passion or the ability to design pretty websites. However, there are a few things I've been noticing over and over again here lately that absolutely drive me insane, and are quite easy to remedy with little to no design skills required. Change your site image and theme
Your (SharePoint Site Is) Driving Me Crazy: Design Tips for Non Designers
In terms of social, it seems that many SharePoint 2010 customers wanted and/or continue to want a little bit more than “out-of-the-box”. This is especially the case for clients who use the activity feed – one of the features which changed SharePoint to be more of a social platform. “How do I reply/comment on one of these things in my activity feed?” clients usually say. “Where’s the ‘like’ button?!”. And so, a whole host of 3rd party products sprang up – some dedicated to SharePoint (Newsgator, Beezy, SnapworkSocial etc.), some more generic and sometimes cloud-based but with SharePoint integration (Yammer etc.).
Chris O'Brien: Extending SharePoint 2010 social features
How to get absolute URLs in SharePoint
Recently I was working on a project where I am building a Site Directory that lists all top-level site collections and their first level sub sites. In addition, for each listing we wanted to display the site image and some other information. We encourage our users to change their site image and theme to make their sites their own, and many do. The site images were displaying fine for those that typed absolute URLs into the Logo URL field; however, for the ones that were using relative URLs, those images were not rendering because they did not exist at that relative path on the site collection that was hosting the site directory.
SharePoint Steve » Making Custom User Profile Properties Searchable in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint 2010 allows for the creation of custom user profile properties in much the same way 2007 did. This allows a company to tailor user profiles to fit their unique business needs and better promote social networking in the enterprise. One issue I recently ran into with this however appeared when I tried to search on these new custom properties.
X-SharePointHealthScore: a new SharePoint 2010 HTTP header - Michel Barneveld's Blog - Michel Barneveld
I was testing something with SharePoint 2010 and needed a deeper look on what was actually send over the wire. So I started fiddler and noticed a few HTTP headers in the response that were new to me. This turns out to be the Log Correlation Id. With this correlation id you can search the ULS logs for the log lines belonging to this request. Very handy!
SharePoint 2010 Writing and Recordings (Books, Articles and Screencasts)
Learn how to use the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 managed client object model to read and write data in SharePoint sites from Microsoft .NET Framework–based applications. Document sets, introduced in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, enable users to create a composite item that consists of properties and child documents. This enables customers to associate multiple documents with a single work item and wrap them into a single version or workflow.
Published: January 2011 Learn about the components that make up the SharePoint 2010 Server ribbon and how to customize the ribbon by walking through two ribbon customization scenarios. Applies to: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 | Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 | SharePoint development tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 With the release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft introduced a new user interface structure, known as the ribbon, that replaced the previous application drop-down menus and toolbars. The ribbon came about after much research suggested that certain applications, such as Microsoft Word, contained so many commands that users had trouble finding what they needed. The premise behind the ribbon is that it provides a more results-driven interface.
Customizing and Extending the SharePoint 2010 Server Ribbon
UPDATE : After trying several different calls to MS and being told by some that my only option was to upgrade to the Feb 2011 CU for MOSS, I finally got in touch with someone who was able to give me the CU I needed. According to MS, the CU was pulled due to an issue with Project Server. They seemed to indicate to me that it will be available again at some point, but with no concrete date for when that will be. So my advice, call and be persistent and try to get someone to send you a copy. This issue has caused me quite a lot of grief and at the time of writing this post, is yet to be resolved. Thanks to all who attempted to help out by providing links to the CU, I’m going to outline in this post what the issue is and why those links don’t work.
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SP2010: Intellisense not working with master pages in VS2010 « Johan Leino
SP2010: Intellisense not working with master pages in VS2010 One thing I noticed when starting to work with SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010 is that when you are editing a master page (and some other type of items) you get no intellisense. Why this is I have no idea but I can guess that it has to do with the project type that the SharePoint project is based on (getting back to that in upcoming posts…) which is not a web template.SharePoint Branding & Design
In this post I will walk you through the process of adding in “Hidden” metadata to your page layouts so that they are only visible when editing the page. For example if you want to create a news article with categories, start date, end date, keywords, and other metadata that might not be relevant to the consumer then instead of forcing your content authors to create content in the edit mode and then force them to update metadata by editing the page properties why not have them all on the page. This allows for a single page authoring experience. Then to add some visual style to this control so that your authors feel comfortable that this content is not visible add in the following HTML within the control above:At the 2008 Office System Developer's Conference, one presenter metaphorically described a .NET developer's first look at SharePoint ® as equivalent to an experienced mountain climber staring at a smooth wall 100 feet tall and trying to figure out exactly how to scale it. Many Microsoft products offer a dizzying array of approaches to completing a task, and deploying custom SharePoint applications is a good example of such a case. Because SharePoint is a complex and sophisticated application platform, deployment can present some puzzles to the uninitiated. In this article, we will show you how to automate custom SharePoint application deployments by taking advantage of the SharePoint API. Following this approach allows you to avoid having to create and maintain a custom site definition.
MOSS 2007: Automate Web App Deployment with the SharePoint API
Thx to JOPX he made a post with some very usefull links for Sharepoint Developers, check out his blog for more tips, tricks, tools and fools ;-)