(Sean Kelley) I haven’t posted on this blog in quite a while but I plan to start adding some new content. I’ve spent the last several months figuring out how to upgrade all of our hosted SharePoint customers, so in doing all that i have created lots of tools, scripts and notes to make the whole Shar

(Steve Sheppard) In SharePoint 2010 we have completely removed the UI for resetting the disk based BLOB cache. This means that you can only reset it through the SharePoint Object Model . Fortunately, since we invested in the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, it’s not that difficult to do. Here is so

(Joel Krist) Microsoft Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is provided with Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Building on the functionality of the Business Data Catalog in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, it introduces new features, such as external system write-back support and ri

(Ashley Elenjickal and Pooja Harjani) SharePoint search may return too much information, causing data security problems. Learn how to use the custom security trimmer to ensure users see only the documents they have permission to view.

(Raoul Farcot) The objective of this article is to assess the compatibility of Microsoft’s SharePoint 2007 architecture and its key functional components with the primary user requirements of competitive intelligence professionals across industry sectors. To do so, we begin by assessing the key user

Do you often find it annoying to find some documents when you need them the most?

(Jerry Orman) Started running across this scenario lately, and wanted to post something up as it will make you second guess your SharePoint configuration [and sanity]. I have SharePoint 2010 hosted on my Windows 7 laptop. In my Favorites Bar in IE, I created a SP2010 folder, and in that folder, I

(Ravish Sindhwani) In this article we will see that how to use sharepoint default datetimecontrol picker in custom webparts.

(Sridhar) Recently, I was tasked to find out how to update a taxonomy field value in a list item through SharePoint web services (lists.asmx). Though this sounds quite simple, it turned out to be a good learning.

(Wouter van Vugt) One of my big focusses when writing software is not to get it to just work, but to get it to work correctly. Hence I spend a ton of time learning about different approaches to solving my SharePoint needs. One area that I focus on in a similar fashion is building my SharePoint VMs.