Coming February 2010, there is another SharePoint Conference – SPTechCon in San Francisco February 10-12, 2010. Whether you are a SharePoint user/developer/IT pro, this conference covers everyone and has a total of 101 sessions and workshops for your needs! I will be presenting the following wor...
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** This is applicable only if you are building a new virtual machine or new installations **
Install Windows Server 2008 R2
Rename the computer to a meaningful name
Perform a reboot after the computer name change
Install the Active Directory Domain Services role
Run dcpromo.exe and create the...
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So, you are running SharePoint 2010 Beta2, you have built sites, done some custom development and also deployment and then suddenly one fine day you get an error like this: I can hear you shouting how the hell this error message is useful for me! Well, there is nothing to panic here as SharePo...
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If you are developing SharePoint 2010 applications in Visual Studio 2010, you would wonder why there is no Deactivate Features deployment step available but only Activate Features deployment step.
This becomes a problem when you retract your solution as the features do not get deactivate from the...
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So, now you have built your BDC .NET Assembly Connector and even added write operations to it. The next big thing you would think is – Can I tell SharePoint to search this BDC model? Of course, you can! But there are few things you need to do in your BDC model in order for SharePoint to crawl your ...
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In my previous post, I showed you how to build a simple BDC model using the .NET Assembly Connector. SharePoint 2010 not only allows to perform read operations from external data sources, but also supports write operations to external data sources. This allows us to update or delete an entity (based...
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