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Microsoft has provided a very neat tool which allows a SharePoint farm administrator to change hard coded URLs in InfoPath form templates, Universal Data Connection (UDC) files, and content types in SharePoint for specific scenarios. You can download this tool using following URL: Tool to change hard coded URLs in SharePoint

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Always remember to avoid creating and destroying objects unnecessarily in code, as this may require that extra queries be made against the database. In the following example, separate objects for the “Tasks” list must be instantiated each time the indexer is used to set properties and the method for updating is called. This is not a recommended p... [More]

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Here is the brief definition of various SharePoint terms which one should know as a SharePoint developer. Alerts: Alerts provide a framework for automating event-driven e-mail or Short Message Service (SMS) notifications that are raised in response to specific events or that run on a schedule. Alerts can be attached to items as granular as list o... [More]

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SharePoint Server 2010 includes new model, strong and flexible authentication works with any corporate identity system, including Active Directory based, LDAP-application specific databases and new user models such as LiveID centric identity.This model uses authentication and requires a new product, code-named Geneva. Claims based authentication im... [More]

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Problem Statement Your datasheet view suddenly stopped working and displayed following error. “The list is displayed in standard view. It cannot be displayed in Datasheet view for one or more of the following reasons: A datasheet component compatible with Windows SharePoint Services is not installed, your browser does not support ActiveX cont... [More]

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Andrew Connell has written an excellent tip which will help you to identify the power shell cmdlet you are looking for in SharePoint 2010 with ease! How to find the power shell cmdlet in SharePoint 2010

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If you are a SharePoint developer or administrator, then start learning Power Shell. It’s a must have skill for dealing with SharePoint from now on wards. Windows Power Shell is an interactive command line and task based scripting technology which allows administrators to automate administrative tasks. From SharePoint viewpoint, Power Shell has ... [More]

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http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/10/19/sharepoint-2010.aspx

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Natalya Voskresenskaya has written a very nice blog post with an overview of SharePoint 2010. This post is targeted for SharePoint developers, professionals and virtually anyone working with SharePoint technology. Do read and get ready to embrace SharePoint 2010 :)   SharePoint 2010 for Professionals

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Xavor SharePoint Migrator is a new one stop solution in the block for SharePoint migration and restructuring needs. Looks pretty promising with all cool migration and restructuring features under one roof which appears to be free as well :-) Please see http://www.xavor.com/whatwedo/solutions/sharepointmigrationtool.aspx for download and oneclicks... [More]

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Recently encountered excellent SharePoint admin tools from Xavor. Great thing is, that they are free and can really ease the pain for regular day to day SharePoint troubleshooting tasks. There is no need to open SharePoint farm and use stsadm for administrative activities. Some mostly used functions of stsadm are easily available right within Share... [More]

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What is Authentication? "Authentication is the process of obtaining identification credentials such as name and password from a user and validating those credentials against some authority. If the credentials are valid, the entity that submitted the credentials is considered an authenticated identity." (Quoted from MSDN) What is Authori... [More]

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Here are some excellent articles on SharePoint branding limitations: SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 1 SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 2 SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 3 SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 4

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Recently we have been facing a daunting task of configuring search on a server which keeps giving Search service is currently offline error messages. After lots of tweaks, following action plan finally did the trick: 1. Remove all web front ends from the server farm 2. Re-Create the new SSP and use a new Web Application to host the SSP administr... [More]

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SharePoint object model won’t help in identifying WHO has created a web site and WHEN it was created. However, a little sneak peak in the SharePoint content database will reveal this critical info. Here is the sample SQL script that will show the user and creation date of any given site: 1: select u.tp_login, u.tp_title, w.title, w.ful... [More]

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