These are my notes while trying to diagnose and better understnad some issues and oddities with the SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service Application. If you’re wanting to populate pictures into people’s profiles, you’ll be using the Update-SPProfilePhotoStore powershell cmdlet after … Continue reading
Developing a CustomAction for the Ribbon and SharePoint 2010? If you’re like me – you follow some instructions online, deploy it once to verify it works, then change as needed and redeploy. One catch though – the data needed for … Continue reading
If you’re a developer, or an admistrator, or just command your home machine with extreme prejudice – you need to read Scott Hanselman’s 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows. Lots of good utilities to be found … Continue reading
Some friends and family have had a hard time buying gifts for me, so I provide a list each year that might help As I come across things I could use or find neat, I’ll update this post. Thanks! OWC … Continue reading
The Goal The goal is to create a custom User Profile property and then set and retrieve its value using C#. The resources Here’s the best resources on the net for creating, modifying, etc. Peter Holpar’s Creating profile properties and … Continue reading
In the time I’ve been doing SharePoint development, and SharePoint 2010 development in particular, I’ve tried to blog about the snags or neat stuff I’ve come across. This post is for all those little pieces of knowledge that come from … Continue reading
and so on with the error message. Do these also fit your situation? 1) The error happens when running a console application 2) Using PowerShell works to access the SPSite, SPWeb, or SPWebApplication that you’re accessing in your console application … Continue reading
This can be useful when you need a file to be right off the root of your Internet facing site – files like robots.txt, sitemap.xml, or the verification file for Google Webmaster tools. We’ll take advantage of PowerShell’s ability to … Continue reading
SharePoint 2007 came with a page (storman.aspx) dedicated to showing you how much space each of the lists in your site collection were taking up. SharePoint 2010 removed this page. Luckily, SharePoint 2010 SP1 added it back in. But what … Continue reading
While doing some testing after upgrading my dev machine to SP1, I ran into two separate issues when trying to delete a web through the UI by using the “Sites and Workspaces” link in Site Settings. Deleting through powershell worked … Continue reading