MarC on April 15th, 2011

During BPCUK I have taken pictures of all speakers of the sessions I attended. Also some pictures of London and the stands. For more pictures go to the photo album on my facebook page.

Steve Smith and “The Queen”

Rick Taylor

Mike FitzMaurice

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MarC on April 13th, 2011

Started today with Agnes Molnar’s session about document sets. Not so much a deep dive as I hoped. Sawn some nice things but nothing spectacular. 
Continued with Michael Noel about Planning extranet environments with SharePoint 2010. A lot of info about FIM and UAG architecture. Tip: use UAG instead of SharePoint authentication. Interesting session. 
Third session of the [...]

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MarC on April 12th, 2011

Yesterday evening we had SharePint in The Old Star near the Conference Center. A lot of visitors and a lot of beer!
I started today with Rick Taylor about Identity Management. Tip: when to use FIM (Forefront Identity Management) which is not working with a lot of SharePoint products or SharePoint FIM, which is, but is not [...]

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MarC on April 11th, 2011

An exciting first day at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London.
Today I followed sessions of Brad Smith, Laura Rogers, Gary Lapointe, Darvish Shadravan and Stuart Cochrane & Mark Stokes.
Laura Rogers was nice (her session also ). Good info about DVWP, XSLT and conditional formatting.
Gary did a very good session I think. I learned a [...]

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MarC on April 10th, 2011

Today I’m flying to London with some of my Mavention colleagues to visit the SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2011. I think it will be an exciting 3 days full of SharePoint 2010. During the conference I shall try to update you through my blog.
You can also follow us at twitter: Marcel van der Lem (@marcelvanderlem), [...]

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MarC on November 24th, 2009

Opening a Infopath 2007 browser based form through a link in i.e. a links webpart is done by first opening the form manually, copying the complete URL, extracting the “&Source…” part from the URL and using the URL as a hyperlink. See example below:
I have a form which opens with this complete URL:
http://intranet/eforms/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=http://intranet/FormServerTemplates/DeclCashSal.xsn&SaveLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1
After I extract [...]

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Because of the strict security on Windows Server 2008 it is no longer possible to just copy and paste the dll files to the GAC like we did with version 2.5. You have to do this with a tool called GACutil.exe. This tool can be found (when you have installed Visual Studio 8 ) in [...]

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MarC on September 25th, 2009

The situation is that I created a demo portal with a lot of sites each with a document library. Some sites are location sites, others are department sites etc. The document library on the location sites each have a site column (metadata) with a prefilled value corresponding with the name of the site and the [...]

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MarC on July 8th, 2009

Recently I was working on some infopath forms for a customer. At first I had made these forms in my own development SharePoint farm together with all the data connections (.udcx files). I had to move all the forms to the SharePoint farm of my customer. In this post you can find how I managed this and got everything working in the new [...]

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MarC on June 23rd, 2009

Recently I was troubleshooting a SharePoint farm of a customer. The crawl of the content sources did not work and always ended with a “access denied” error in the crawl log. In the eventlog event ID 2436 appeared: “Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add [...]

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