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Office 2010 connection to SharePoint 2010 very slow in the Information Worker VM
Serge Luca
I’ve noticed that in several situations, saving or opening Office 2010 documents to/from SharePoint 2010 can be extremely slow on different computers or even in the Information Worker Virtual machine that I’ve been using since 2009.
To solve this kind of issue, one of the thing you have to do is to uncheck the Automatically detect settings option of Internet Explorer (In the Menu Tools-Internet Options –Connections )
Let me know if that helps you… [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 17th '12 |
Inside PowerPivot 2 (SQL Server 2012 & SharePoint 2010) & the BISM-step1
Serge Luca
In this post we assume that the reader already knows what PowerPivot is and has already created some PowerPivot “models”; the following notes describes the results of our investigations ;–)
When we deploy to SharePoint an Excel Workbook using a PowerPivot datasource , an (almost hidden) instance of SQL Server Analysis services handles the server side PowerPivot request: this instance is named .\PowerPivot.
Let start from a clean situation where no PowerPivot workbook has been deploye [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 22nd '11 |
Session Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2012
Serge Luca
3 days ago, with my partner in crime Isabelle Van Campenhoudt, I did a session on SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2010 for the Club SharePoint France (Microsoft offices, Paris) here are a couple of pictures and slide can be visualized and downloaded from my skydrive.
We covered the following topics :
Introduction
PowerPivot v2
PowerView
Reporting Services 2012 & SharePoint 2010
BI Semantic Data Model [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 18th '11 |
Creating a public web site with Office 365 : my experience so far…
Serge Luca
One of my customer had the following problem : he had an old & ugly public web site written in asp.net. Nobody wanted to maintain this application anymore, but worse than that: the business was unable to easily & quickly add new content and was therefore slow to react.
As a SharePoint guy, my first reflex was to use SharePoint as a web content management tool, but we didn’t have the budget to buy, to set up and to maintain a SharePoint farm.
Moving to the cloud (Azure or Office 365) wa [read].
Posted: Mon, Dec 5th '11 |
My Live Meeting on SharePoint 2010 as a Business Intelligence Platform (27/9/2011)-Live from Brussels (Microsoft)
Serge Luca
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Posted: Mon, Sep 26th '11 |
My session SharePoint Business Intelligence Session @ Microsoft Innovation Center (Belgium) : 13/10/2011
Serge Luca
With my partner in crime in BI, Isabelle Van Campenhoudt, I will give a presentation (this time in French) of the Business Intelligence features of SharePoint 2010 @the Microsoft Innovation Center in Mons (Belgium).
More details here.
[read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 15th '11 |
My SharePoint 2010 Powershell tutorial for SharePoint 200 developers
Serge Luca
Here is an extract of the Powershell module of my SharePoint 2010 for developers course.
1.1 lab.introduction to Powershell
In this lab, you will work out a number of exercises that have to do with Powershell.
In Lab1 you will discover the main Powershell concepts; in Lab 2, you will apply these concepts.
1.1.1 Lab 1.discovering Powershell
1. Start the Sharepoint 2010 Management Shell.
2. To get help, type:
Get-help
3. To see all the commands available, type :
Get-Command
4. To se [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 7th '11 |
delegates explained to SharePoint 2010 developers
Serge Luca
I’ve noticed that many people attending my SharePoint courses don’t always have the knowledge of delegate/ anonymous methods/lambda expressions.
Here is how I explain it in 1 page
//myDelegate is a type pointer on a function that takes //an int and returns an int
delegate int myDelegate (int x);
class Program { static int Test(int x) & [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 7th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Reusable content bug fixed in the June CU
Serge Luca
Great news! It looks like the bug I submitted to the product group a year ago has been fixed in the June CU.
I’ve just tested it now.
Don’t forget that installing the June CU after the SharePoint 2010 SP1 is officially recommended ! [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 6th '11 |
Bug in SharePoint variations fixed in June CU
Serge Luca
Very good news, the terrible bug in variations (both in MOSS and in SharePoint Server 2010) that I described in a previous post has been fixed in the June Cumulative update (and in the MOSS April CU).
I’ve just tested it a few minutes ago.
Microsoft recommends to install the June CU after SP1 anyway.
You will find the SharePoint 2010 update/patches web site here. [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 2nd '11 |
…be patient :–)
Serge Luca
I’ve noticed that the number of readers of my SharePoint workflow tutorial has literally exploded ! I got several mails every day about the next step of this tutorial; be patient : –), I’m working on it. [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 29th '11 |
SharePoint Speaker for Microsoft Macedonia
Serge Luca
I’ll be SharePoint speaker for Microsoft Macedonia next month; I’ll publish more details about my sessions when the Vizjia web site will be ready; stay tuned… [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 29th '11 |
My next presentation (Live Meeting @Microsoft) : SharePoint 2010 as a Business Intelligence platform
Serge Luca
By the end of September, I’ll be presenting the following livemeeting for Microsoft and @Microsoft with Isabelle Van Campenhoudt [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 24th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 sp1.Reusable content bug not fixed…
Serge Luca
I’ve tested the SharePoint Service Pack 1 last night and I’ve noticed that the bug I described a year ago has not been fixed.
This bug has been submitted to the product group. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 18th '11 |
Step by Step tutorial : Creating Workflow for SharePoint 2010 tasks (Step 4/15)
Serge Luca
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Scenario
If the expense reports requires the manager approval, we want the manager to receive a task in his task list in order to approve/reject the expense report.
CreateTask activity
Let’s drag and drop a CreateTask activity before the askManager activity and name it approveRejectTask
Set its Correlation token to ApproveRejectToken and the associated ownerActivityName to ExpenseReportWorkflow:
Bind the TaskProperties property to a new member (click [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 17th '11 |
Find Feature Name from Feature Id utility
Serge Luca
Something that upsets me is when I get the following message :
Even the ULS log won’t show you the feature name:
How can I find the feature ? yes I can start a text search through all features in the Features folder.
Or you can use the following utility I’ve just created (it took me 10 minutes to do it) : [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 10th '11 |
SharePoint 2010-Content Types and Inherits : the good, the bad and no ugly
Serge Luca
I recently had to upgrade SharePoint 2007 code to Visual Studio 2010.
The code contained a content type definition with a RemoveFieldRef tag which allows us to removed a field from a parent content type; typically we remove the Title column…
It worked perfectly in SharePoint 2007, but in SharePoint 2010, my Title column was still there.
Then I noticed when I create a new Content Type SharePoint project item, Visual Studio 2010 add a new SharePoint 2010 attribute : Inherits with a value set to [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 7th '11 |
Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 released
Serge Luca
This is an important news: Microsoft just released Office 2010 + SharePoint Server 2010 + …other services pack 1 (Like Fast, Search, Grooves, Project Server, SharePoint Foundation 2010)…
Here is the list (and description) of all SharePoint 2010 and Office Server 2010 SP1 packages.
Here is the list (and description) of all client side SP packages, including SharePoint Designer 2010, Office 2010, and the SharePoint 2010 client object model redistributable.
The general Office Update Cent [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 29th '11 |
Step by Step Tutorial : Creating workflows for SharePoint 2010: Creating custom activities (step 3/15)
Serge Luca
Step 1
Step 2
Introduction
In this tutorial I will illustrate how to create custom activities in a SharePoint 2010 code workflow.To achieve it, I will extend the workflow we created in step 1 and step 2. Make sure you have the correct site template as well as the code generated in step 2.
The scenario
Our expense report approval workflow will automatically approve an expense report if the amount is smaller than 1000 otherwise the expense report will have to be approved by the man [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 27th '11 |
Belgian Community Days 2011
Serge Luca
Don’t forget to register to the (Microsoft) Belgian Community Days 2011; these will take place tomorrow in Utopolis, Mechelen.
I’ll be presenting a session on SharePoint 2010 Patterns & Practices.
My User Group, the CLUG will be present : I will be there the whole day @the booth… [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 22nd '11 |
SPWeb.Properties or SPWeb.AllProperties
Serge Luca
I’ve just tested the new Caml tag available in SharePoint 2010 as illustrated below :
But again, as in SharePoint 2010, I’ve forgotten that if you try to grab the value from the SPWeb.Properties collection (in my specific case web.properties[“myCustomproperty”] , you will get null as the key name must fully be lowercase.
The recommendation is to use the SPWeb.AllProperties collection :
web.AllProperties[myCustomproperty] (this works with uppercase characters).
The recommendation is to [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 19th '11 |
SharePoint Foundation 2010 : no “Always Show Document Information Panel” in the content types definitions
Serge Luca
I just noticed that we don’t have the Always Show Document Information Panel option in SharePoint 2010 Content types :
SharePoint Foundation : content type definition
SharePoint Server 2010 : content type definition [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 19th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 : upgrading features (with versioning) is easier in the sandbox
Serge Luca
In SharePoint 2010 it is well known that features can be versioned and upgraded accordingly.
This is well described in the following MSDN documentation:
Surprisingly, upgrading features requires calling the SPFeature.Upgrade() method of any feature that need to be upgraded.
Chris O’Brien provides a set of tutorials that illustrate how to upgrade features in SharePoint and I recommend his posts
Chris also provide a nice tools (as well as a Powershell commandlet) to visually upgrade feat [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 15th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Drop Off Library and unique permission
Serge Luca
It looks like when we activate the Content Organizer feature, if the “dropped” document is not routed, it get a unique permission.
For instance, I’ve created a very basic document content type called myDoc with one required site column called test
The routing rule is “move the document to a document library” if test = “test”, as simple as that
If I upload a document (single upload window) in the drop off library and I set the test value to xxx (so the document won’t get routed)
[read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 14th '11 |
How to reflect the updated taxonomy terms : run the Update Scheduler Job
Serge Luca
if in your SharePoint list you define a manage metadata column from a Taxanomy Store as illustrated here :
if you update the value (here from “mybelgium” to “mybelgium2”)
You will still get the old value :
until the Taxonomy Update Scheduler job (which is an hourly job) runs : [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 13th '11 |
Session Workflows SharePoint 2010 : Microsoft Innovation Center (Mons) et MyTic
Serge Luca
Cet après-midi, je présenterai une session sur les workflows en SharePoint 2010; cette session est organisée par le user group MyTIC et Microsoft Public Sector.
Elle sera suivie d’une autre session décrivant une implémentation complète sur SharePoint 2010 pour l’aéroport de Charleroi.
Pour plus de détails, cliquez sur ce lien. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 9th '11 |
Tech Days Belgium 2011 session recordings & slides are available online; visualize my SharePoint 2010 session
Serge Luca
Great news : Tech Days 2011 session recordings & slides are available on line on Channel 9 (for free !!!); just visit this site.
The session I did with Karine Bosch on SharePoint 2010 and Best Practices can also be visualized here . [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 5th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 workflows and Document Sets–”Start the workflow when a new item is created”–Be careful
Serge Luca
SharePoint 2010 workflows can be associated to site (new in SharePoint 2010) and to list items and this includes Document Set (also new in SharePoint 2010).
Associating workflows to documents et provide more efficiency since a user or a group of users can validate the whole set of documents instead of validating each document one by one
We can have workflows running on the whole document and/or workflows running on documents within the document set; these workflows are completely independent of [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 5th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 “Save as template” (what is saved, what is not saved)
Serge Luca
Save as template in SharePoint 2010 generates a news WSP (solution package) that can be deployed somewhere else
The following artifacts are saved:
Lists
Libraries
External Lists
Data source connections
List views and data views
Custom forms
Workflows
Content Types
Custom Actions
Navigation
Site pages
Master pages
Modules
WebTemplates
It is a pretty good idea to save a site as a template, to reimport it in Visual Studio 2010 and to pick up the SharePoint item you need; I do [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 2nd '11 |
Bug in SharePoint Designer 2010 : where is the Page Layouts Site Object ?
Serge Luca
Is it just me or is it a SharePoint Designer 2010 bug : when I open a publishing site created from the Publishing Portal Site template, I get the Page layout Site Object as described below :
However if I create a team site and if I activate the publishing features at the site collection and at site level, but I don’t see it : [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 1st '11 |
Deploying site definitions to a SandBox ? use the new WebTemplate tag
Serge Luca
I’ve noticed that many SharePoint developers don’t know the concept of WebTemplate.
In SharePoint 2007, we could define site definitions (in onet.xml files) and deploy them to a farm; the site definition ended up in the file system.
Now in SharePoint 2010, we have the very promising sandbox that allows us to run applications & customizations (including .Net code) in the Cloud (the SharePoint Online part of Office 365) among others.
Since files cannot be deployed on the file system in a s [read].
Posted: Tue, May 31st '11 |
onet.xml : dependency between site feature and site collection feature doesn’t work like in 2007
Serge Luca
I’ve just noticed that unlike in SharePoint 2007, in SharePoint 2010 activating a site collection feature in onet.xml from a sub site doesn’t work. This was very easy, if in your child site you needed to make sure that a site collection feature (like the Publishing feature) was activated before activating your site feature (like publishing feature).
If the site collection feature is not activated, you’ll get this error message :
The solution is of course to create a Feature Receiver that [read].
Posted: Mon, May 30th '11 |
Installing SharePoint updates…
Serge Luca
In addition to centralizing the list of updates/patches/hotfixes, the following article in TechNet provides the necessary explanations & methodology to follow when you want to apply updates to a SharePoint farm, like applying the updates to SharePoint Foundation first and next to SharePoint Server; but there is much more than that; and believe me, it is extremely important to follow this : [read].
Posted: Mon, May 30th '11 |
Update ? update rollup ? feature pack ? critical update ? hotfix ?
Serge Luca
This is maybe clear for you, but not for me : the difference between update, update rollup, service pack, feature pack, critical update, security update, or hotfix is now described here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953878/ [read].
Posted: Mon, May 30th '11 |
Office 365 for IT pro (free) training online : May 24–May 26/2011
Serge Luca
Click HERE to register
Day One — “Office 365 Platform” May 24, 2011 | 10am-4pm PDT | Live online training
Microsoft Office 365 Overview for IT Pros
Deploying Clients for Office 365
Administration & Automation using PowerShell
Identity and Access Solutions
Directory Synchronization
Day Two — “Exchange Online” May 25, 2011 | 10am-4pm PDT | Live online training
• Exchange Online Overview for IT Pros • Exchange Online Administration • Staged Exchange Online Migratio [read].
Posted: Fri, May 20th '11 |
Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 service pack 1 announced for June
Serge Luca
[read].
Posted: Tue, May 17th '11 |
My next session as a SharePoint 2010 speaker : Microsoft Innovation Center & MyTIC & CLUG (Belgium) user groups : 9/6/2011
Serge Luca
After Patterns & Practices (Tech Days) and before the Community Days, I will present (next month) a session on Workflows in SharePoint 2010 organized by the Belgian user group MyTIC in association with the MIC (Microsoft Innovation Center, Mons) in Belgium and the CLUG (Continual Learning User Group, Brussels)
More information here : [read].
Posted: Fri, May 13th '11 |
Downloadable SharePoint 2010 SDK March 2011 available
Serge Luca
[read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 26th '11 |
SharePoint 2010 Speaker @the Microsoft Techdays Belgium this week : “SharePoint 2010 Patterns and Practices”
Serge Luca
[read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 25th '11 |
Office 365 public beta available
Serge Luca
This is an exciting moment; Microsoft has opened its Office 365 cloud suite to a public beta of the service. You can join the beta here. Office 365 is the next evolution of BPOS.On the SharePoint point of View (there are other components as well like Exchange 2010 and Lync), it is just SharePoint 2010 farms hosted in multitenancy mode. .Net Custom code can be uploaded online and run in a sandbox environment. An official launch of the product is slated for later this year.
Now, I’ve a [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 19th '11 |
SharePoint and Silverlight Training kit now available
Serge Luca
It is now possible to download the Silverlight Training Kit from MSDN :
Here are the different units of this course :
Introduction To Silverlight and SharePoint
Integrating Silverlight and SharePoint
Accessing Data with the Silverlight Client Object Model
Accessing Data With Web Services and Data Services
Interacting with JavaScript and jQuery
Branding With Silverlight
Accessing Cloud Data with Windows Azure and SQL Azure
Building Advanced SharePoint Controls with Silverlight [read].
Posted: Mon, Apr 18th '11 |
Conférence sur L’Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) CLUG-Ephec 8 avril (soir) et en français
Serge Luca
Continual Learning User Group
En association avec le DotNetHub,pour une conférence exceptionnelle de Gaël Fraiteur à L’EPHEC le 8 avril à 18h30.
Cet expert reconnu du monde de l’AOP nous présentera une introduction à l’AOP et nous fera une présentation de son framework PostSharp. L’AOP vous intéresse, vous voulez en savoir plus … [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 5th '11 |
Speaker @Montréal–Groupe d’Utilisateurs SharePoint Québec
Serge Luca
After my sessions @the SharePoint Summit (Quebec), I will move to Montreal, where I’ve been invited with another European speaker (Nicolas Georgeault).
My session will be “SharePoint 2010 Patterns & Practices” (level 300).
And after that, I’ll be heading to the Belgian Tech Days where I have another session… [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 1st '11 |
Speaker at the SharePoint Summit 2011-Canada (11 & 12 April 2011)
Serge Luca
I’ll be speaker at the SharePoint Summit 2011 in Québec
I will present 2 sessions (level 300) :
SharePoint 2010 patterns & Practices
Workflows in SharePoint 2010 : what’s new
Venez nombreux assister à mes sessions !!! [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 1st '11 |
Continual Learning User Group (CLUG) : Aspect Oriented Programming 8th April-Ephec Brussels
Serge Luca
Next week (8th April 2011), the CLUG (Continual Learning User Group) will organize a free session in the evening (in French) dedicated to AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming); this is also very important in SharePoint programming (it is not only for “pure” .Net developers); click on the picture below to get more details : [read].
Posted: Fri, Apr 1st '11 |
Step by Step Tutorial : Creating workflows for Sharepoint 2010 : retrieving list items (step 2/15)
Serge Luca
What we want to be able to do in this step is retrieving the list item values (in our case the expense report information) associated with the running workflow : if the expense report is greater than 1000 then the manager approval will be required, otherwise the expense report will be accepted.
This post is based on the code (and site template) provided in Step 1. This is straightforward in SharePoint : the OnWorkflowActivated activity has been databound with a workflow member called wo [read].
Posted: Sun, Feb 13th '11 |
4th MVP at Devoteam
Serge Luca
We now have a 4th MVP working for the Devoteam Belgium training Center (formerly known as Guidance): Panagiotis Kefalidis (MVP Azure).
More information about the Devoteam Group here. [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 20th '11 |
Step by Step Tutorial : Creating workflows for Sharepoint 2010 (step 1/15)
Serge Luca
Introduction
One of the greatest innovation in the previous version of Sharepoint (MOSS 2007 and WSS v3) was the integration with Windows Workflow Foundation, a core component of the .Net Framework 3.0.
The last version of Sharepoint, Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2010 & Microsoft Foundation 2010, is based on the .Net framework 3.5; the workflow part of .Net 3.5 has not been slightly modified, the .Net concepts are the same.
I’m actually adapting to Sharepoint 2010 a very popular workf [read].
Posted: Thu, Jan 6th '11 |
New in Visual Studio 2010 sp1(beta) : Create (and run) Sharepoint 2010 Unit Tests with Visual Studio 2010
Serge Luca
We’ve all be waiting a long time for that, but with the new Visual studio 2010 sp1 (in beta), we can create and run Sharepoint 2010 unit tests from Visual studio 2010.(new support for the .Net Framework 3.5).
The following very short video illustrates how it works (or download it and run it in full screen).
Here is the English version (switch to full screen mode):
…and here is the French version (switch to full screen mode)
Best whishes for 2011! [read].
Posted: Sun, Jan 2nd '11 |
SiteLogoUrl doesn’t work anymore in the site definition
Serge Luca
It looks like SiteLogoUrl doesn’t work anymore in Sharepoint 2010 RTM.
SiteLogoUrl Specifies a server-relative URL for a custom image to use for the site logo in a custom site definition.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms438080.aspx
We need to use the feature receiver to set it up at the SPWeb level.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spweb.sitelogourl.aspx
This is probably a bug… [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 14th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 : changing the Approval Workflow status when a document is deleted and restored
Serge Luca
When an approval workflow is running on a list item (like a document) and when the document is deleted, the document (and the associated workflow) is still in the Recycle bin; if we undelete the document, it get back to its original document library but the workflow status is “rejected”; I don’t think this is a good option: the workflow status should be “canceled” like when you explicitly cancel a workflow or nothing at all, or the workflow should still be active (unless it “timeoute [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 12th '10 |
5th star in the Sharepoint 2010 newsgroups
Serge Luca
Very happy to get my 5th star in the Sharepoint 2010 newsgroups (US) a minute ago. [read].
Posted: Thu, Dec 2nd '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 Speaker at the CLUG
Serge Luca
I’ll be speaker tomorrow at the CLUG (Continual Learning User Group), Brussels.
More details here.
[read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 16th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010: Disable Launch forms in a Dialog (External lists)
Serge Luca
2 months ago, one of my customer asked me how to disable launch forms in external lists.I noticed in the MSDN forums that the question often pops up.
Indeed, in a normal list, if you go to advanced settings, you will find the following option :
This option is not available in the case of an external list;here are the List settings options of an external list:
However, the Advanced settings page of a normal list can be found by typing the url …\layouts\advsetng.aspx?list=; the go [read].
Posted: Sun, Nov 14th '10 |
sending a document set to the record center : bug
Serge Luca
It looks like when you try to submit a Document set to the Record Center by using the Send To functionality, the document set is stored in the Document Center drop off Library but cannot be routed: indeed, as illustrated here :
Now the Document Set (based on a content type named “Testrecord” is sent to my drop off library: but very strange it is packaged as a .zip file
And moreover, my routing rule doesn’t “route” it as expected; if I take a closer look at the drop off library, a con [read].
Posted: Mon, Nov 8th '10 |
Vizija event (Macedonia) : more details from Microsoft
Serge Luca
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Posted: Wed, Sep 22nd '10 |
Critical! Asp.Net vulnerability alert-impact on Sharepoint 2010
Serge Luca
pI just want to relay the following information from the a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2010/09/21/security-advisory-2416728-vulnerability-in-asp-net-and-sharepoint.aspx?utm_source=feedburneramp;utm_medium=feedamp;utm_campaign=Feed:+sharepointteamblog+(Microsoft+SharePoint+Products+and+Technologies+Team+Blog)"Sharepoint team/a concerning what to do to “fix” the last asp.net vulnerability alert in your Sharepoint 2010 farm./p pa href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepoint/arc [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 21st '10 |
Microsoft Speaker in Macedonia
Serge Luca
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Posted: Tue, Sep 14th '10 |
Speaker at the Microsoft Innovation Center (Mons, Belgium)
Serge Luca
pAfter Iceland last week, I will be speaker this week (15/10) at the Microsoft Innovation Center (Mons Belgium)./p pI will have a session on “Workflows in Sharepoint 2010”. Click a href="http://www.fikket.be/mic/event/214"here/a to get more info about this Sharepoint 2010 day./p pa href="http://www.fikket.be/mic/event/214"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/ [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 12th '10 |
Next BIWUG meeting (18/09/2010) Sharepoint 2010 Admin
Serge Luca
pMy good friend Karine will be one of the speakers./p pa href="http://www.biwug.be/"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mvH78s3g3-vPAI44JAGIpdUc_Fh_cYKI4N0jAkzUwwacbxAKQydGPlN6D3b4tOI8iXRqQQDU_OTxJ7A5eGZLkSX5T3Wqa2DhR4TijPguGR3p8ykyx-Ytbj-w1DFXQ1l28TA-pnjUk5lmf0SPIwSg8cg/image[4] 66E237CE.png?downloadamp;psid=1" width="555" height="296" //a/p [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 6th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 speaker in Iceland
Serge Luca
pI’m looking forward to be a strongMicrosoft speaker/strong this week in strongIceland/strong; I will present 2 sessions (“Workflows in Sharepoint 2010” and “Creating Composite applications with Sharepoint 2010”. Interesting to see that James Gosling, the creator of Java, will be present (keynote)./p pThe a href="http://www.skyrr.is/Haustradstefna/Skraning"agenda/a is now available./p pa href="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mpg0ylocD7op0OiJlGlGS3LyYk85cGXqbVjYl0FMbJaq1xjPScBq [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 6th '10 |
Cannot copy and modify workflows in subsites (Sharepoint Designer 2010)
Serge Luca
pTip of the day: “The workflow is read only…”/p pIf you try to copy amp; modify an out of the box workflow in strongSharepoint Designer 2010/strong from a strongsubsite/strong (like a href="http://litware/dest"http://litware/dest/a where a href="http://litware"http://litware/a is the root site),/p pa href="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mENPZby9g85ZH6CKEhK-_WbNx5d5gaWFpc-H-9XC4C32F9qZ97X0AEFroXX2-MQs0Tqwhs_zUvfs9xq9CmBBHCD4pn3OA7OxW66qTL67E0gOudF3Uc6D7xW2VreZBgfRqIQVKtu7nGJIzSSqZdn [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 6th '10 |
Sandbox features, sandbox declarative workflows
Serge Luca
p1.I just noticed that when we deploy a sandboxed solution with a feature with a scope=site, the feature is automatically activated (like a farm level feature in a non sandbox solution), however, when scope is web, we have to activate it manually./p p2.In my (stupid) mind, declarative workflows were running in the sandbox and workflows created by Visual Studio run in full trust mode./p pTo checked that out, I created a Sharepoint Designer workflow and I deactivated the Sharepoint Foundation Sand [read].
Posted: Fri, Sep 3rd '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 : Remove the “I like it” and “Tag Notes”
Serge Luca
pstrongSmall tip/strong: a colleague recently asked me how to remove the strongI like it/strong and the strongTagsamp;Notes /strongcontrols in every lists :/p pa href="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mpolrqHJSLOkIhTAFRnx9HwXa0WWj4Fr3L_9lgPnqeOBytK6G5NpHdM9n8FZ_pLVlO4zc4d1rTaUzfB_VASz3piQTwxsyIOQs5iZsFQ0CBcPZWkp7S9IUw4udRBInC5dAxfXqOT68nBghHsKDzhJ7-g/image[2] 6DD66792.png?downloadamp;psid=1" rel="WLPP"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0 [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 1st '10 |
My Sharepoint 2010 Hands on Labs : Creating workflows for Sharepoint 2010 (35 pages !!!) with Visio 2010, Sharepoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010…
Serge Luca
pSource code can be downloaded a href="http://cid-e8a06d5f2f585013.office.live.com/self.aspx/Public/sp2010workflowlabs/workflowsLabs.zip"here/a./p
pMy tutorial (word document, 35 pages) can be visualized in Office Web App a href="http://cid-e8a06d5f2f585013.office.live.com/view.aspx/Public/sp2010workflowlabs/workflowlabs.docx"here/a./p
pa href="http://cid-e8a06d5f2f585013.office.live.com/view.aspx/Public/sp2010workflowlabs/workflowlabs.docx"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:inline;border [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 24th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 Governance Model
Serge Luca
pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=33a8c9e0-57c2-4ae5-99e3-8826ab9dd701amp;utm_source=feedburneramp;utm_medium=feedamp;utm_campaign=Feed:+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+(Microsoft+Download+Center)amp;utm_content=LocalHost#filelist"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1m2w3YUUy22BvU3iZMqCC9esSBkVaraeg1aVYrGhrdDfcmt2W-vDpk [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 24th '10 |
The Client Object Model in Sharepoint 2010-updated version of my tutorial
Serge Luca
pHere is an updated version (17 pages) of my strongSharepoint 2010 Client Object Model tutorial/strong. This is an free chapter of my strongSharepoint 2010 course for developers./strong/p ul liThe pdf file can be downloaded a href="http://cid-e8a06d5f2f585013.office.live.com/self.aspx/Public/ClientOMLabs/ClientObjectModel^_labs.pdf"here/a (or click on the picture below)./li liThe source code (starter files and solutions) can be downloaded a href="http://cid-e8a06d5f2f585013.office.live.com/self. [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 23rd '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 (Publishing editor) Bug: don’t mix up web parts and reusable content in publishing field
Serge Luca
pFound a new Sharepoint 2010 bug : strongwe cannot mix-up Reusable content and Web Parts in a publishing field/strong. pThis bug has been submitted to Microsoft. pWe can reproduce this bug in the a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=751fa0d1-356c-4002-9c60-d539896c66ce"Information Worker VPC/a. Here are the steps: p1. Create a new web site based on the strongPublishing Portal template/strong or on the strongEnterprise wiki/strong. p2. Go to strongVie [read].
Posted: Sun, Aug 15th '10 |
My Sharepoint 2010 speaking engagements
Serge Luca
pstrong/strong /p pI will be speaker in the following sessions in the coming months:/p pstrongSeptember/strong (Iceland,Skyrr, Microsoft)/p ul liCreating workflows in Sharepoint 2010 : What’s New/li liLinq to Sharepoint 2010: What you need to know/li/ul pstrongSeptember/strong (Belgium, Microsoft)/p pMicrosoft Innovation Center /p ul liCreating workflows in Sharepoint 2010 : What’s New/li/ul pstrongOctober/strong : (Macedonia, Vizija event, Microsoft)/p ul liCreating workflows in Sharepoint [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 10th '10 |
My father passed away…
Serge Luca
pa href="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mnt1prhG9HpkmtpziIIqTu17lCfBUJuDN4V1R5CK1kCUuOVnmbmAQAGn7jCrZSLwQcbL_iiJsYDiGneA7FWj49vwZKRa8APCbJrZa3rmuncDgBCMJoCbloblhP2xqROr-pRw2TGKnnajFl8RDPqxj3Q/Photo papy[2].jpg?downloadamp;psid=1" rel="WLPP"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px" title="Photo papy" border="0" alt="Photo papy" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1m8RAFq75mPeDicniOushPHKNQBT-yUef3VItgnzrcJbZwnTlaHMpfhtCh8kvNP54sL4E [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 29th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 How to delete the Drop Off Library
Serge Luca
blockquote p /p/blockquote pIn Sharepoint 2010, when you activate the strongContent Organizer feature/strong, the well known strongDrop Off Library/strong is generated. The problem is that if by any chance you want to delete it, you won’t find an option like strongDelete this Document Library/strong in the list settings as illustrated in the next picture./p p /p pa href="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1m3mlmIJoawm5oEEqs-Fn6dsf0kBRmC3UhIlW2tTKeRU36RCdqzfYyO9Q7W3ji-GqoK_3xtjqKtV0BT0Eh1i [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 20th '10 |
Running server-side code from the Ribbon
Serge Luca
p…no you cannot do that as far as I know, you still have to rely on javascript code (like, but not only, the Client Object Model); that said, there is a strongworkaround/strong if you don’t want to invoke an aspx page or to display a Dialog ; I ran across the following article from MSDN a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512775.aspx"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512775.aspx/a and I noticed that in this example, Microsoft uses the good old javascript:__doPostBack( [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 19th '10 |
Hide the Ribbon to non contributors
Serge Luca
pLast week, one of my customer asked me to hide the ribbon to strongvisitors/strong. Achieving it is very simple : in your master page, hide the div id = “strongs4-ribbonrow/strong” and make it available for users having the permission strongAddAndCustomizePages/strong by using the strongSharepoint:SPSecurityTrimmmedControl/strong as described below :/p p /p pa href="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1m0pI4kPWndgQQwxvaXJMPoOXPsXMX7msQ-2JjNcVaQqHGHomuKtE4KeZRoTZhi8cOQC0MATzSOuX_zmbI1D5 [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 18th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 : why nothing happens when you click in the tag cloud
Serge Luca
pIf you (publicly) tag items, the tags will show up in the tag Cloud; however it could happen that when you click on the the tag no result will de displayed; one of the reason is that the Tag security trimming; indeed, according to the a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff608006.aspx"sdk/a:/p div padding a tag, a note, or a rating to a Web page creates an emactivity/em. Before SharePoint Server displays an activity, it uses a component called the emsecurity trimmer/em to determin [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 12th '10 |
The Sharepoint 2010 Content Organizer doesn’t dispatch bulk uploaded documents
Serge Luca
pI just noticed that the Content Organizer feature in Sharepoint 2010 dispatches the files uploaded into the drop off library if they are uploaded one by one, or if we edit the properties; however if you upload multiple files (bulk upload), or if you upload them programmatically the dispatching doesn’t work…However, if we start the strongContent Organizer Processing/strong timer job (which is a daily job), our uploaded files will be dispatched-gt;strongWorkaround/strong: we can schedule th [read].
Posted: Sat, Jul 10th '10 |
Installing Powerpivot for Sharepoint : follow this advice (or waste 1 day)
Serge Luca
pGeeez, Sharepoint community, strongif you want to use and to install Powerpivot for Sharepoint/strong (which is a superb product,by the way) on the a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=751fa0d1-356c-4002-9c60-d539896c66ceamp;displaylang=en"IW VPC that Microsoft/a provides as I tried to do this afternoon (I wasted at least 4 hours, yes 4!!!), READ a href="http://powerpivotgeek.com/2010/06/14/installation-failure-could-not-load-file-or-assembly-microsoft-analysisservic [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 8th '10 |
Provide your feedbacks on the 40 fabulous application templates for WSS
Serge Luca
pThe Sharepoint team gives you a great opportunity to talk about this (like if you want them on SP2010); click on the picture below./p pa href="http://www.facebook.com/MSSharePoint"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mpkeedIlwwWCarjpbh3Mr_aXaeEViUWp-f16eEyQC6c8tHro3mN-TPnkS2VYIv7T9c2B8eXcW_3TAGch5B1f0R-xnpH-d1LCuTa5VSMmbJ2BlwhnvksdiEdZ0LggnCEtsIJC6XG2nWMT-o6dI [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 7th '10 |
Bug in Sharepoint 2010 when we try to associate different views to different folders
Serge Luca
pI have documented and sent this bug to the Product Group 2 days ago, here is my a href="http://cid-e8a06d5f2f585013.office.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Sharepoint2010bugs/viewperfolder/demobug3.wmv"video/a that describes it./p pI don’t have any workaround for the moment…but stay tuned !/p [read].
Posted: Tue, Jul 6th '10 |
Resource Cost of HyperV
Serge Luca
pas a Sharepoint 2010 consultant what I have to remember is :/p pstrongCPU overhead/strong between 9 to 12%br /strongMemory overhead/strong : 300 MB for the hypervisor + 32 MB for the first allocated GB + 8 MB for each subsequent allocated GBbr /strongNetwork overhead/strong : lt; 1msbr /strongDisk overhead/strong : between 6 and 8%/p p /p pFor more details, you can read a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768536(BTS.10).aspx"this article in Technet./a/p [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 4th '10 |
FAQ : Sharepoint 2010 RTM Installation
Serge Luca
pI spend a lot of free time monitoring the Sharepoint US forum; many questions in the Sharepoint forum are related (directly and indirectely) to Sharepoint setup which is not always easy./p pI recommend this excellent post from Jie Li (Sharepoint team)./p pa href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/opal/archive/2010/04/25/faq-sharepoint-2010-rtm-installation.aspx"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://ng [read].
Posted: Sun, Jul 4th '10 |
Become an expert in Claim based authentication…
Serge Luca
p /p pthis is super important in Sharepoint 2010 (but not only here) : you need to master Windows Identity Foundation and here is a new training kit:/p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=c3e315fa-94e2-4028-99cb-904369f177c0"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mVKFBbmvAg3kKgqsVn_fufhIEwyUifvp5LkT_tl4qqzNQd6f1E71 [read].
Posted: Sat, Jul 3rd '10 |
Community Day pictures
Serge Luca
pI was Sharepoint speaker at the Community 2 weeks ago; my session was “Creating composite applications in Sharepoint 2010”./p pa href="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mBG7ih-EjpcAnlybxzM8RzhmFGK8lj50v9Y1ufqkHcaUeQhIRoLcmk2-JFLLCOHh16QDSglt8oiijdj05ebGiEHXwhRk8cq5kwKi0ZK8tAJo-nWUThP31PcF1NWv_HNssGfjrxPGjVpcrlIvwjTKs2Q/commday[4].jpg?downloadamp;psid=1" rel="WLPP"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px" title="commday" border="0" alt= [read].
Posted: Fri, Jul 2nd '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 : You cannot view a list in Datasheet view after you install the 64-bit version of Office 2010
Serge Luca
p /p pI know that this is a general concern…/p pYesterday, Microsoft published the following a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2266203"workaround/a if you are using the 64 bits versions of Office 2010 : /p pyou can install the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components to enable the Datasheet component. These components are available from the Microsoft download center: /p divspana href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7554F536-8C28-4598-9B72-EF94E [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 1st '10 |
IcelandBootcamp2010
Serge Luca
[read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 30th '10 |
With Sharepoint Foundation 2010, use Sql Server 2008 Express R2
Serge Luca
pBy default if you install Sharepoint Foundation, Sql Server Express 2008 will be installed. Then you will face the GB database size limit./p pNot many people know that if you don’t want to pay for a full SQL server license and if you need more than 4GB, you can install a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx#Scalability"SQL Server 2008 Express R2/a (which provides up to 10 GB) OR you can use RBS. /p pYou can follow a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sh [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 30th '10 |
Create a Powershell command that downloads a Sharepoint Solution package from a Sharepoint 2010 Solution Store
Serge Luca
pYou can download the source code from a href="http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/Code can be download from Codeplex."Codeplex/a, but we will create it from scratch.
pIn this lab, you will create a Powershell Cmdlet that will download a Sharepoint Solution package from the Sharepoint Solution store.
p1. Start Visual Studio 2010 and create a new bClass Library; /bdelete the Class1.cs; name the project bDownloadWsp/b.
p2. Make sure the b.Net framework 3.5/b is selected and that the platform targe [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 29th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 : Visual Web Part in Sandbox : yes you can !
Serge Luca
p /p
pa href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/8e602a8c-6714-4549-9e95-f3700344b0d9"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:inline;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;margin-left:0px;border-left-width:0px;margin-right:0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mVzIleMAQ-NE4QdiugC8tvHl7fMea_APY7B33HKy1_EeGl5DSH7DRyVVAztgmLCXqe4ky4GvOvxyRMKRs8YG6K-PDDRjNIS01t_Wz8MxoUxZS5y5uJBhsdD9fQfRHjHG_Yl5rigl9FlMYsQf2WGmVfQ/ [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 22nd '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 videos Tech Ed New Orleans
Serge Luca
pSharepoint 2010 amp; Office 2010 free a href="http://www.msteched.com/Tracks/OfficeAndSharePoint/Page1/"videos at Tech Ed new Orleans/a . Enjoy !!!/p [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 17th '10 |
New Sharepoint 2010 VM
Serge Luca
p /p pGood to know, I discovered by accident that Microsoft Shipped another Sharepoint 2010 RTM VM yesterday; it can be downloaded a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=751fa0d1-356c-4002-9c60-d539896c66ceamp;displaylang=en"here/a ./p [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 17th '10 |
My Visio services videos (part 1, French English versions) published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
pIn this video, I illustrate how to connect 2 Visio Web parts./p pYou will find the a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/katriendg/Visio-services-Part-1-Connecting-Viso-Web-Parts/"French version of the video here/a and the a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/katriendg/Visio-services-Part-1-Connecting-Viso-Web-Parts/"English version Here/a./p p /p pa href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/katriendg/Visio-services-Part-1-Connecting-Viso-Web-Parts/"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;d [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 15th '10 |
My Linq to Sharepoint 2010 video-Part 7 published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
pIn this video I illustrate how to query a list which in another site collection (not supported by default)/p pa href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/katriendg/LINQ-to-Sharepoint-2010-Part-7/"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;border-top:0px;margin-right:auto;border-right:0px" title="Linq to Sharepoint 2010 Part 7" border="0" alt="Linq to Sharepoint 2010 Part 7" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mrPl2MnJu0SVtwVNpETDnH_rZ_KtfPKonbQSlgv [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 15th '10 |
Lyon Microsoft User group, first meeting
Serge Luca
pI won’t be able to attend this meeting, but I will relay the information : the first meeting of the stronga href="http://www.mug-lyon.fr/"Microsoft User Group/a/strong (Lyon, France) will take place in 3 days./p pa href="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1me30EigO2OBQ6QXVOophYcgwQ1ChdkG-5btftq9ziDy310IrKC2nPnZivkgXRmTfqpix-1LLHJZlaAZt_JBkzmPzTmuBtyC6ZS_b1PCmUKEVnnr9aZZWnLywu-ugdKNUVCqwkqU3abZZlmYkFGhzV2g/Lyon-River_imagelarge[4].jpg?downloadamp;psid=1" rel="WLPP"img style="border-bottom:0 [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 14th '10 |
Workflows in Sharepoint 2010 Tutorial -Step1/20: What’s new
Serge Luca
span style=""font size="5"font face="Cambria" pspan style=""font size="5"font color="#365f91"strongThe author/strong/font/font/span/p pa href="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1m0iC9yno8GARt13OriUyYZfgktoH56j7bzQmz3ihk3JqhmXQGArIiTfhAIYEkjckPt6o2Bqxfkq8UORsrDuOlJpGktY5mUNGzAFjt-b_I40qk4AhOiA0asQ57rLQWAeqlHcUuQSxjxr2v9uLOv3p9NA/image[66].png?downloadamp;psid=1" rel="WLPP"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:inline;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px" ti [read].
Posted: Tue, Jun 8th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 sdk and RTM VMs can be downloaded
Serge Luca
p2 important news:/p pstrongThe Sharepoint 2010 sdk/strong (my new Bible, yes Lord!) can be downloaded a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26f" target="_blank"here/a. Unfortunately you will have to wait a little bit to download more samples; here is what you get: (you get what you paid for)/p pa href="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mbSSNipenmSIWAa9M1q7N6PY9kky8Fp2Hv3TncKD9Lxek_5d6liU7cfGqsTB-uUknrSDrMDwQdFyTs [read].
Posted: Fri, May 21st '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 Langage Packs RTM
Serge Luca
pVery good news, the RTM Language Packs for SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010 can now be download a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enamp;FamilyID=046f16a9-4bce-4149-8679-223755560d54" target="_blank"here/a./p [read].
Posted: Tue, May 11th '10 |
Office 2010 64 bits and Sharepoint 2010 (dataview does not work)
Serge Luca
pif the Sharepoint dataview does not work when you have installed Office 64 bits on your workstation, download and install the a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7554F536-8C28-4598-9B72-EF94E038C891amp;displaylang=en"2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components/a/p [read].
Posted: Mon, May 10th '10 |
Linq to Sharepoint 2010 (My Sharepoint Saturday presentation)
Serge Luca
pThank you to everyone who attended my “Linq to SharePoint 2010″ presentation at SharePoint Saturday on 5/8/2010 (a href="http://www.biwug.be"www.biwug.be/a). The deck and source code are available a href="http://cid-e8a06d5f2f585013.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/SharepointSaturdayMay2010/LinqPresentation.pptx" target="_blank"HERE/a . I received many great questions. In this presentation I illustrated how to use Linq to Sharepoint in anonymous mode, how to query several site collect [read].
Posted: Mon, May 10th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 RTM installed configured: problem with Office Web App on DC
Serge Luca
pI’ve installed the RTM version of Sharepoint 2010 server in W2008R2 (in HyperV) + the RTM version of Visual Studio 2010 RTM last Sunday./p pEverything went pretty well until I tried the Office Web Apps : the Word Viewer and Powerpoint Viewer generated an error but nothing was logged in the ULS./p pFortunately I came across an old post from Jie Li (Microsoft, Sharepoint team) who reported an issue when SP2010 is installed on a Domain Controller./p pI just did this:/p p$e = Get-SPServiceApplica [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 27th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 shipped yesterday
Serge Luca
p align="left"…at least the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010!/p p align="left"Congratulations to the Sharepoint team for releasing what is now considered in many aspects as the best ECM product in the world./p p align="left"a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/04/16/sharepoint-2010-reaches-rtm.aspx"http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/04/16/sharepoint-2010-reaches-rtm.aspx/a/p [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 18th '10 |
Sharepoint 2010 RTM next month
Serge Luca
pThe release date of Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 is official now :/p ul liRTM (Release to Manufacturing) this April 2010./li liOfficial launch date : May 12th/li/ul pa href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx"ufont color="#800080"http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx/font/u/a. /p pAlmost time to update the vpcs…/p pEnjoy, dudes…/p [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 8th '10 |
Video version of my “Sharepoint 2010 Client Object Model (part 2, Silverlight)” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
p /p p /p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1538" target="_blank"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:block;float:none;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;margin-left:auto;border-left-width:0px;margin-right:auto" title="ClientOM_2" border="0" alt="ClientOM_2" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mZBLvlUf36GwfMzfmFRQWhZVkO24VCcN7LvP9vWeS1qs4ck7bg0DKv-qhbH08TGL6Z7uMg4ytVVIm3LsPVvRsyx2EeSMfx4M8FKAIQ-dpKPo-0TRrrGoIzN39yD1k3kBkqmPBobms7_ [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
Video version of my “Sharepoint 2010 Client Object Model tutorial (part 1)” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
p /p p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1537" target="_blank"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:block;float:none;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;margin-left:auto;border-left-width:0px;margin-right:auto" title="ClientOM_1" border="0" alt="ClientOM_1" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1m1uyutKgJnZoGf-OuWHHTIp9GPF7qlndzwva-3yqthTWOjFbFdArbTrr-lXjbJ-0XYwdWkptOB0tNArkg0eMACk2-_osi1mp7I2YvadFTBqGxl0b1Y2nnMFITPnRYVTjKs [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
Information Governance
Serge Luca
pI just want to relay this a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jpperrein/20091011-igovernancev8pub" target="_blank"excellent presentation/a about Information Governance from my Colleague Jean-Pascal Perrin (Devoteam Group)/p [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 1st '10 |
7 Sharepoint 2010 courses I’ve created for Devoteam
Serge Luca
p style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0pt"span style="font-family:'Calibri-Bold','sans-serif';color:black;font-size:10pt"I’ve been quite busy the last months and you will know why: indeed here are the courses I’ve created for the training center of Devoteam Luxemburg and Devoteam Belgium where I work as a Sharepoint practice manager, but also as a Sharepoint MCT trainer.I have been 100% focused on Sharepoint 2010 since September 2009./span/p p style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0p [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
Video version of My Sharepoint 2010 tutorial “What’s new in Web parts” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1522" target="_blank"Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial “What’s new in web parts”/a/p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1522"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;border-top:0px;margin-right:auto;border-right:0px" title="wepartsh2010" border="0" alt="wepartsh2010" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mLnRAnE [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10 |
Video version of My Introduction to Access Services in Sharepoint 2010 published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1523" target="_blank"Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial “Access Services”/a/p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1523" target="_blank"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;border-top:0px;margin-right:auto;border-right:0px" title="Access Services_1" border="0" alt="Access Services_1" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilesto [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10 |
Video version of My Linq to Sharepoint 2010 step 6 published by Microsoft belux
Serge Luca
p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1521" target="_blank"Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial Part6 “SPMetal parameters file”/a/p
pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1521" target="_blank"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;border-top:0px;margin-right:auto;border-right:0px" title="linq2010_part6" border="0" alt="linq2010_part6" src="https://ngypog.blu.liv [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10 |
Video version of My “Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial -Part 5” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
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pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1519" target="_blank"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;border-top:0px;margin-right:auto;border-right:0px" title="LinqSPpicture_part5" border="0" alt="LinqSPpicture_part5" src="https:// [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 22nd '09 |
Video version of My “Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial -Part 4” published by Microsoft Belux
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pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1517"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;border-top:0px;margin-right:auto;border-right:0px" title="LinqSPpicture_part4" border="0" alt="LinqSPpicture_part4" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefiles [read].
Posted: Tue, Dec 22nd '09 |
Video version of My “Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial -Part 3” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
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Posted: Tue, Dec 22nd '09 |
Video version of My “Linq to Sharepoint tutorial-Part 2” published by Microsoft Belux.
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Posted: Tue, Dec 22nd '09 |
Video version of My “Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial -Part 1” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
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Posted: Tue, Dec 22nd '09 |
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Sharepoint 2010
Serge Luca
pThis is a tutorial I’ve created for the Devoteam course a href="http://www.devoteam.be/index.php?option=com_mosformsamp;mosform=152amp;id=194amp;pays=beamp;Itemid=396amp;lang=2" target="_blank"“Update your Skills to Sharepoint 2010”./a (Next session: January 2010, Belgium)./p
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Posted: Fri, Dec 11th '09 |
Sharepoint 2010-Beta 2: Linq to Sharepoint tutorial
Serge Luca
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p a href="http://cid-e8a06d5f2f585013.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/sharepoint2010posts/linqtosharepoint [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 6th '09 |
Sharepoint 2010 and Devoteam Sharepoint 2010 course
Serge Luca
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Posted: Fri, Nov 20th '09 |
From Connected System (Workflow) MVP to Sharepoint MVP
Serge Luca
I’ve been Connected System MVP during several years; I’m very glad to be awarded Sharepoint MVP by Microsoft ! [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 1st '09 |
Skip the last Sharepoint August Cumulative update or…
Serge Luca
…or don't detach your content db. In server farms that have a large number of sites, installing a software update with the content databases attached can result in too much downtime. To minimize downtime, Microsoft recommends that you perform the additional step of detaching the content databases. But this time, don't do that for the last August cumulative update. More details here http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/ The problem is being investigated [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 23rd '09 |
Using a database or a Sharepoint List ?
Serge Luca
The Sharepoint Pattern & Practice group recently released the August version of Sharepoint Guidance and it’s worth reading! A common question in the sharepoint newsgroups is “shoud I use a Sharepoint list or the database ?”. [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 22nd '09 |
My 2000th post in the Sharepoint newsgroups…
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Posted: Tue, Sep 22nd '09 |
New (last ?) Release of the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint 1.3
Serge Luca
Michael Washam (MSFT) announced today in the sharepoint newsgroups the last release of the Visual Studio Extensions for Sharepoint 1.3 CTP. I’ve used this tool since its first release in 2007, but the upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 provides major improvements and is (now) really usable. This is probably the last release of the venerable VseWss before Sharepoint 2010 and the Sharepoint developement tools that will be part of Visual Studio 2010. New features of VseWSS 1.3: The extensions now ins [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 21st '09 |
Sharepoint 2007 : how to prevent users from creating Sharepoint Designer Workflows
Serge Luca
That is a frequent question I have to answer…This seems to be a common issue. In Central Administration, Application management, you will find the following option: When you selected it, you will get this : In the setting “Enable user-defined workflows for this site”, select “No” (you will notice other interesting options for internal or external users who don’t have site access, but who need to take part of workflows). Now, if you open one of the site of the web applica [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 17th '09 |
Club MOSS Paris-next meeting: September 14th
Serge Luca
Don’t forget ; more details here. [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 9th '09 |
Sharepoint Conference 2009 (Las Vegas, 19-22 October 2009): new sessions
Serge Luca
Don’t forget it, that’s the place to be if you really want to learn something about Sharepoint 2010. Hope to see you there… SharePoint 2010 Overview and What's New Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 Capacity and Performance Planning SharePoint 2010 Security and Identity Management: What's New. Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Development SharePoint 2010 Ribbon, ECMAScript and Dialog Framework Development Developing with REST and LINQ in SharePoint 2010 Upgrading SharePoin [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 9th '09 |
My Generic Framework for Sharepoint Workflows (aspx forms): v1.0 today
Serge Luca
I guess this will help many people in the Sharepoint community (according to some messages in the Sharepoint newsgroups…) After working on it this week-end, I’ve decided that the quality was good. Now it’s time to move it to Sharepoint 2010; more details after the Sharepoint Conference in Las Vegas. Enjoy ! [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 6th '09 |
Calling Sharepoint Dlls from C++ code
Serge Luca
I spent most of the nineties in the C++ world with the venerable MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) , ATL(Active Template Library) & its famous smart pointers. I recently had to answer a question in the Sharepoint newsgroups related to using Sharepoint dlls in C++: I jumped on it as a kid in a candy store (to be honest my current candy store is Sharepoint 2010). This is what I did: Create a new CLR Console Application project : The following code is generated : Add a referen [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 31st '09 |
My Generic workflow framework for Sharepoint updated in Codeplex (Beta)
Serge Luca
I just added a small fix (workflows in content types bug). Enjoy! [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 26th '09 |
Sharepoint workflows : when are your tasks created ?
Serge Luca
Several Sharepointers notice that using the CreateTask activity alone in a Sharepoint workflow doesn’t really create a Sharepoint Task: To have the task created (in the task list) you need to have an activity that will move the workflow in waiting state ; any activity implementing the IEventActivity interface will do the job; that is the case of all sharepoint activities having name starting with “On” (OnTaskCreated, OnTaskChanged,OnTaskDeleted,…), and also the Delay activity. The Sharep [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 24th '09 |
Step by Step Tutorial.Creating workflows with Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS 2007(Part 17/20). Solving the infamous “Failed On Start (Retrying)”
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1. in most cases the main reason is that the workflow assembly strong name in workflow.xml doesn't match the assembly strong name of the dll registered in the GAC ("Unexpected L [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 20th '09 |
Step by Step Tutorial.Creating workflows with Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS 2007(Part 16/20). Assign a workflow task to a group of users
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Posted: Wed, Aug 19th '09 |
Sharepoint Conference 2009/Sharepoint 2010
Serge Luca
I just registered for the Sharepoint Conference (Las Vegas) that will be the conference to learn about SharePoint 2010. Join the newly created Facebook Events page for the SPC09 [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 18th '09 |
Sharepoint 2010 preview
Serge Luca
Wow ! No more secret: if you want to know what Sharepoint 2010 looks like, check the following web site. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
my 5th webcast published
Serge Luca
My Fifth webcast on Sharepoint for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I show how show you how to quickly create Sharepoint workflows with aspx association and
initiation forms.This demo is based on my Generic Framework uploaded to codeplex. [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 17th '09 |
Ineta speaker at the Macedonian Code Camp
Serge Luca
I will be Ineta speaker at the Macedonian Code Camp in 2 weeks organized by the Macedonian.Net User Group. This is my third stay in Macedonia, and I really love it. More details here. I will present 2 intensive sessions on Sharepoint. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 28th '09 |
My generic Framework for aspx sharepoint workflow forms has been uploaded to Codeplex
Serge Luca
I’m currently working on a screencast for Microsoft Belux to better illustrate it. Stay tuned ! I shortly described it in a previous post. [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
How to allow Full Control permission to a user in a Sharepoint List
Serge Luca
The SPWeb has a RoleDefinitions property that return a list of SPRoleDefinition. Each SPRoleDefinition is a permission level ; for instance in the next code snippe,t web.Roledefinitions will return a collection of 6 roles; they match the permission Levels of the web site : If you want to assign a permission level to a user on a specific list, you need to create a new RoleAssignement (SPRoleAssignment class) that can be added to the SPList. The new permission must be linked to the role assign [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
Small update to my Download Sharepoint solution package utility uploaded to Codeplex
Serge Luca
just a simple bug fix.This utility allows Sharepoint administrators and developers to download a solution package from the Sharepoint solution store (for instance to compare it with another one); I’ve recently faced this situation: we had a solution package in our staging farm, but we wanted to compare the files (features) with our development code. I’ve created 2 versions of this utility : a Windows Form version and a stsadm extension . Run the Windows Form version on the Sharepoint [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
New version of my Workflow Explorer (or ‘Scanner’ ) uploaded to Codeplex)
Serge Luca
It is still a beta product (v0.8)… Before writing code for rendering its output to a web part or a Sharepoint List, I’m still improving its kernel. (In the meantime the output can be redirected to an ascii file). Fixed a bug (display list item ‘filename’ in document libraries and not ‘Title’), and I’ve added a new option ‘raw’ which displays the ‘raw state’ or the workflow (interesting for developers). Next version will be an stsadm extension. Using the ‘error’ opt [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
My WebCast "QuickStart with Ajax in Sharepoint" has been published (MS Belux)
Serge Luca
Another WebCast I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I show how to start with Ajax in Windows Sharepoint Services v3. [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
Scanning running and faulting Sharepoint workflows
Serge Luca
Several customers asked me to create a tool that displays the status of running workflows (running on faulting). One of my customer has several hundreds of workflows running at the same time. That why I’ve created this utility (still in console mode) and I’ve uploaded to Codeplex : WorkflowExplorer. Showing all running workflows : Showing faulting workflows in a site collection : [read].
Posted: Sat, May 23rd '09 |
my 1001th answer in the Microsoft Sharepoint newsgroup !
Serge Luca
I had the pleasure to post my 1001th answer to the Microsoft Sharepoint newsgroups this morning ! [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09 |
My video of aspx association forms for Shaeepoint has been published (MSDN Belux)
Serge Luca
Another chopstick I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I give a quick overview of aspx association forms for Windows Sharepoint Services v3. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
My AspxCollectFeedback workflow for Sharepoint uploaded to Codeplex.
Serge Luca
I've recently fixed a very important example of the Sharepoint sdk (the AspxCollectFeedback workflow sample) and I've uploaded it to Codeplex.
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Posted: Sun, May 17th '09 |
My "Download Solution Package" utility published to codeplex
Serge Luca
The other day, my team had a solution package deployed to a Sharepoint farm, and we wanted to compare this solution with another version; but we couldn't download the deployed version from the solution store. That's why I've created a small utility that can be used as a stsadm.exe extension or as a windows form. Basic, but useful... [read].
Posted: Sat, May 16th '09 |
My video of the Visual Studio Extensions (1.3) for WSS has been published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
Another chopstick I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I give a quick overview of the Visual Studio Extensions 1.3 (March CTP) for Windows Sharepoint Services. [read].
Posted: Sat, May 16th '09 |
How to fix the AspxCollectfeedback (sharepoint sdk) workflow sample video published
Serge Luca
One of the chopsticks I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I illustrate how to fix the AspxCollectFeedback workflow sample provided with the Sharepoint (wss v3) sdk. You can watch it here. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 15th '09 |
Reusable content in MOSS
Serge Luca
It is strange, but I’ve met many Sharepoint guys who had no idea of what Reusable Content was. Hands on ! Let’s go to our collaboration portal and move the home page to edit mode : Edit the content of one of the field and the Rich Html editor will show up : Move the cursor to the following button in the toolbar : We can insert content defined in a central location which is actually the following list (select view All Site content ) : The Reusable content list allows 2 content types : [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 5th '09 |
Sharepoint : Finding a stsadm option
Serge Luca
I just discovered this; you want to find a stsadm option containing a keyword, like “feature” for instance. Type this: and you get this [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 4th '09 |
Sharepoint : how to change the column width of a list
Serge Luca
I had to do it this evening : here is how to proceed : Let’s start with an existing list in Sharepoint, a task list for instance : Start Sharepoint Designer and open up the corresponding view (AllItems.asxp, here) Make sure the view shows up in design mode : Right Click anywhere in the view and select the menu option “Convert to XSLT Data View”: The DataFormWebPart will display the view; You can now visually modify the list width : Save the page; refresh your page in the br [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 2nd '09 |
MOSS as an application platform : an introduction to Oba patterns
Serge Luca
As a MOSS consultant, I face many situations where Sharepoint is not an island and needs to communicate or to integrate data coming from different sources, different applications (Line of Business Applications) like SAP and others. Also as a .Net consultant I use to keep my mind structured by thinking in term of patterns, and there are many of them. I recently talk to a confirmed MOSS consultant about OBA (Office Business Applications), and it quickly appeared that for him OBA was just using [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 24th '09 |
Is this a new OBA (Sharepoint) pattern ? I’ve called it the “Asynchronous Business Task pattern “
Serge Luca
A new Oba pattern ? Asynchronous Business Task Pattern The only (efficient) way to have an asynchronous communication between a Sharepoint workflow (see the “Cooperating Document Workflow “OBA pattern) and a LOB (Line of Business Application) is to use what I call the "Asynchronous Business Task Pattern". It is a pattern that I frequently use for my customers, because there is no other alternative in Sharepoint: 1. a workflow create a business task (task is identified by an Task Id) 2. a wor [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 24th '09 |
Using the Content Query Web Part /Enhanced Query Web Part (MOSS 2007)
Serge Luca
Introduction One of the most important web part provided with MOSS 2007 is the Content Query Web Part which allows to “rollup” list items.This web part is very flexible and extremely fast You will find a lot of descriptions of this Web Part in web sites and blogs like the Sharepoint team blog, ,Heather Solomon and Paul Galvin. I recently evaluated the Enhanced Query Web part code from Codeplex that displays data in html tables, so I will quickly describe what I’ve learnt plus new stu [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 22nd '09 |
MOSS 2007 : search on content type
Serge Luca
Several people have asked me recently how to focus a search on a content type. In this post, I will describe the different steps to follow in order to achieve this. 1.Go to your Shared Services Provider Administration page: 2.Click on “Search settings” : 3.Select “Metadata property mappings” : 4.In the Metadata property mappings windows, select the Content type property : [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 15th '09 |
Sharepoint : problem when we update a file during a checking in
Serge Luca
Recently, somebody asked me to add version history to word documents stored in Sharepoint. The word documents were docx files, based on the OpenXML format. This was a great opportunity to try the new OpenXML sdk 2.0 CTP (I’ve used a lot the Package & PackagePart classes in the past). I decided to create an event handler overriding ItemCheckingIn method of the SPItemEventReceiver class and to a table in my OpenXml document (fig 1). Fig 1.Overriding ItemCheckingIn and modifying the d [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 10th '09 |
New MOSS Virtual Labs
Serge Luca
Learning Sharepoint today is very easy with the Virtual Labs; you don't have to setup you Sharepoint environment, Microsoft will do that for you and for free. This is very good quality learning material; I've noticed today that Microsoft provides new MOSS labs, not just WSS. [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 27th '09 |
New job: moving to sharepoint@devoteam
Serge Luca
After spending 2 years at U2U as a Sharepoint and Workflow trainer with Patrick Tisseghem (we all miss you, Patrick!), I've decided to join the ECM business unit of the Devoteam group where I'm the Sharepoint practice Manager of a young and enthusiastic team of Sharepoint developers, but still I remain a Sharepoint trainer. This ECM unit of Devoteam (based in Leuven, Belgium) is specialized in 2 products :
LiveLink from OpenText (a leader in the Gardner magic ECM Quadrant)
Sharepoi [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 25th '09 |
Custom extended properties not propagated in Sharepoint workflows !!!
Serge Luca
I found a new BUG in Sharepoint workflows this evening: according to the sdk :
"When you write to the ExtendedProperties hash table, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 examines each key-value pair and performs the following function:
If a value has a key-name that matches the name of a field on the task content type, that value is written to the matching field. If a value's key-name does not match any of the field for that task, the value is written to the SPListItem.Properties objec [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 24th '09 |
Visual Studio Extension for Sharepoint 1.3 CTP
Serge Luca
I've recently used the new Visual Studio Extensions for Sharepoint 1.3 CTP released a few weeks ago; I like it because it is more flexible than the previous version (and you can use it on 64 bits); you can copy your files to the 12 Folder without deploying a new solution, and many other nice feature. For more details see this post from the Sharepoint team. I've discovered an annoying bug : you can only rename a WebPart (folder) one time; the associated files are only renamed the first time you [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 3rd '09 |
Workflow for Sharepoint aspx form framework almost completed
Serge Luca
I'm receiving tons of emails related to my generic framework for Sharepoint.
So, yes I'm currently updating it with Edit and Modification forms support. And much more...
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Posted: Tue, Jan 27th '09 |
Workflow Foundation 4 (Visual Studio 2010) post updated
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Posted: Sun, Nov 30th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial.Creating workflows with Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS 2007 (part 15/20).Easy ASPX Initiation Forms-(my small generic framework)
Serge Luca
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 15/20). Easy ASPX Initiation Forms-(by using my small generic framework)
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Posted: Thu, Nov 27th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial.Creating workflows with Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS 2007 (part 14/20).Easy ASPX Association Forms-(my small generic framework)
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Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 14/20). Easy ASPX Association Forms-(by using my small generic framework) By Serge Luca MVP step1 step2 step3 step4 step5 step6 step7 step8 step9 step10 step11 step12 step13 step14 Download the startup code Download the final code Download the framework code Introduction There are many reasons to associate workflows with aspx forms in Sharepoint instead of Infopath forms (IP): aspx forms are [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 20th '08 |
Surprise of the day : how Sharepoint-FAST retrieved me in the PDC…
Serge Luca
This evening I was watching the Sharepoint-Fast demos of Jan Helge Sageflåt, when the first document retrieved by the FAST Silverlight web part was a powerpoint about the 2007 Microsoft Office System; I did it for Microsoft Belux 2 years ago : see the picture below. Surprise, surprise… [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 4th '08 |
PDC2008: summary of what Workflow Foundation developers need to know
Serge Luca
By Serge Luca
MVP
1.New version of WF: WF4 (more details later, I'm just working on it)
What’s new in WF4 ?
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Authoring is simpler and takes much less code
Fully declarative workflows and activities
Alignment across Expressions, Rules, and Activities
Seamless Composition Across Flow Styles
Runtime
10-100X Performance Improvements
Full control over persistence
Flow-in Transactions
Partial Trust Support
Integrates with WCF, WPF, ASP.NET
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Posted: Sun, Nov 2nd '08 |
Workflow Service (Azure)
Serge Luca
Very exciting PDC2008 : back to the (worldwide) logical mainframe with Azure...
Needless to say that I'm already playing/working with the Workflow Service preview. Xoml is becoming very important in this kind of scenarios.
More details in the next weeks, I'll post the differents samples I've just done tonight.
Also the demo of the web version of Office 14 client (actually we all expected this).
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Posted: Wed, Oct 29th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating workflows with Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS 2007 (part 13/20). Fixing and running the ASPXCollectFeedback sample (sdk)
Serge Luca
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 13/20). Fixing and running the ASPXCollectFeedback sample (sdk)
By Serge Luca
MVP
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I’ve received tons of emails related to workflows & aspx forms. Indeed, I’ve faced many situations where Infopath forms in Sharepoint workflows are not flexible enough or not stable enough; therefore we [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 27th '08 |
Speaker for Microsoft Macedonia (Vizija event)
Serge Luca
I've been fortunate enough to be invited last week as a speaker for Microsoft Macedonia at the Vizija event (equivalent of the Dev Days) in Skopje.
I had 2 sessions on my favorite topics : Workflow Foundation and Sharepoint/Oba; the sessions were pretty crowded (more than 400 people in each room) ; people were positive, warm and eager to learn. I had a great time, it was my second stay in Skopje.
See you next year for more Workflow Foundation 4.0 topics !!! (...and maybe Office 14, who k [read].
Posted: Sun, Oct 5th '08 |
Homage to Patrick Tisseghem
Serge Luca
A great and lovely man passed away. Patrick Tisseghem was also a mentor for many people. I'm joining my U2U colleagues to present my deepest condoleances to the family.
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Posted: Fri, Sep 5th '08 |
New version of Workflow Foundation
Serge Luca
The next version of Workflow Foundation is going to be very interesting : database activities, Powershell activities, Workflows running in the cloud (Cloud Services), new designer framework, better integration with WPF, Flowchart,... For more information, attend the PDC2008 :-) Count on me to post more details as soon as I'm authorized... [read].
Posted: Sun, Aug 3rd '08 |
Around the world : 2 weeks in Asia with the Oba team (Redmond)
Serge Luca
Last month, I spent 2 weeks in Asia working with/for the Office Business Application team (Redmond) in Asia; 1 week in the Philippines (Manila) and 1 week in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh, aka Saigon). It was a kind of Oba/Sharepoint evangelization and also Train the trainer training ; the feedback was excellent; we did the same session before in Paris and Beijing last year. The oba team attended my courses and it was so fun. Oba seems to be very popular in Asia. 30% of the training was focused on Client [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 8th '08 |
D-Day. Thank you USA
Serge Luca
Friday was D Day !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day
Never forget; I'm very grateful for this; once again thank you !
May I suggest this series.
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Posted: Sun, Jun 8th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 12/20). Managing several approvers/reviewers
Serge Luca
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 12/20). Managing several approvers/reviewers
By Serge Luca
MVP Connected System
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The Out-of the box approval workflow provided with MOSS allows to specify several approvers. In this post, I will illustrate how to do this. In a first time (part 1) , I will show you how to use the Replica [read].
Posted: Thu, May 8th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 11/20). Modification Forms
Serge Luca
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 11/20). Modification Forms
By Serge Luca
MVP Connected System
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Modification forms allow us to reassign a workflow task to another user.
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Posted: Wed, May 7th '08 |
Do you think you know when to call Dispose() in Sharepoint ?
Serge Luca
One of the most frequent cause of problems in Sharepoint developement is when developers don't call Dispose() (specially when they traverse collections of objects).
My reference for this was this excellent whitepaper from Scott Harris and Mike Ammerlaan ; to summarize, call Dispose() all the time except when the object comes from the context (ex SPContext.Web), because Sharepoint will take care of it.
However the following article from Roger Lamb shows that it is a bit more complex.
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Posted: Tue, Apr 22nd '08 |
Open XML is now an ISO Standard
Serge Luca
in my opinion this is very important and opens the door to many interesting patterns. Oh boy, some of my friends in Redmond must be so happy. [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 2nd '08 |
MVP 2008-2009 renewed
Serge Luca
Happy to know that my MVP status has been renewed today... [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 2nd '08 |
Enable WCF in Windows Server 2008
Serge Luca
Solved some WCF + Windows Server 2008 problems today and the following links helped me : Don't forget that WCF is a feature-> read this to activate it in ws2008. Using WCF with WAS in Windows Server 2008 (a bit easier than with Vista) [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 28th '08 |
Upgrading my silverlight "skills" to v2 beta1
Serge Luca
I just spent a couple of days with Silverlight v2: 1.Silverlight 2 beta 1 (Scott Guthrie tutorial) 2.Blend 2.5 beta (Scott Guthrie tutorial) 3.Sharepoint + Silverlight (+ on Windows Server 2008 which is my "normal platform") For Silverlight 2 & Sharepoint, if you don't want to waste one day or more, just follow Patrick's instructions to modify the web.config file (+Mime) and don't forget to recompile your "SL.XAML.HelloSilverlight2 project". Let's repeat it : "recompile you xap proj [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 26th '08 |
Declarative workflows and WSS sp1 bug
Serge Luca
Declarative workflows (like those generated by Sharepoint Designer) don't start automatically anymore when you install Windows Sharepoint Service sp1:
this is a nasty bug, but there is a workaround .
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Posted: Thu, Mar 20th '08 |
Speaker for the TechDays 2008 : Workflow Foundation Rules Engine
Serge Luca
The next Microsoft Tech Days (Belgium) will take place in less than 2 weeks in Gent; this will be the official launch of brand new versions of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Like my U2U colleagues Patrick Tisseghem and Peter Himschoot, I'll be a speaker : my session will be "Externalizing the Business Rules in any .Net application (including Sharepoint) with the Workflow Foundation Rules Engine" (13 March 2008). See ya there ! [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 29th '08 |
Hosting a WCF Serviced Workflow in IIS 7 and using the persistence service (Visual Studio 2008)
Serge Luca
By Serge Luca
MVP Windows Workflow Foundation
In the previous post I showed you how to host a "WCF serviced" workflow and how to use a persistence service in a console application.
Now, let's move our workflow service to IIS7. Code can be downloaded here.
1.Download the code of the previous post.
2.In IIS7 Admin Manager, create a virtual directory that will point to the WFServiceLibrary folder, assign a port number (for instance 8082). Make sure the service dll is in the .bin folder [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 23rd '08 |
Using the persistence service in a WCF 3.5 hosted workflow
Serge Luca
Using the persistence service in a WCF 3.5 hosted workflow
By Serge Luca
MVP Windows Workflow Foundation
This morning a colleague at U2U asked me how to use the persistence service in a workflow hosted in WCF (.Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008).
I've created a quick (and dirty, sorry) step by step tutorial on how to achieve it.
Click here to download the code.
1.Start Visual Studio 2008 and create a new Sequential Workflow Service Library project ; call it WFServiceLibrary.
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Posted: Tue, Jan 15th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 10/20)
Serge Luca
Step 10/20. Reuse, Modify and Debug a Sharepoint Designer workflow in Visual Studio
By Serge Luca
MVP Windows Workflow Foundation
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Microsoft Sharepoint Designer 2007 is a very interesting tool that allows developers and users to create workflows running in Sharepoint 2007 without writing code. The workflows generated by Sharepoint Designer cannot be debugge [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 20th '07 |
Blog Images
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Posted: Tue, Nov 20th '07 |
I've been Simpsonized
Serge Luca
My simpsonized face:
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Posted: Sat, Oct 20th '07 |
Train The Trainer OBA(Office Business Applications)-Beijing
Serge Luca
After Paris, I've been the trainer of another OBA (Office Business Applications) Train The Trainer workshop last week in Bejing for Microsoft.
This was my first trip in China; almost 70 persons (many Microsoft employees) attended this 3 days course.
It was a great experience. After Joanna Bichsel and John Graham, I was fortunate to spend the week with Khawar Ahmed and Andrew Toner (both are OBA Product Managers).
Workflow discussion...
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Posted: Sat, Oct 20th '07 |
Photo Album: Around the globe (May-October 2007)
Serge Luca
Around the globe (May-October 2007)US Army Germany(May 2007)Germany(May 2007)Redmond (May 2007)Microsoft-Redmond -Design of the Workflow Foundation exam (May 2007)Vancouver (canada) May 2007Vancouver(Canada)-May 2007Doha(Qatar)-June 2007iceland-June 2007Train The Trainer OBA Paris (October 2007)Train The Trainer Oba BeijingMore Photos... [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 20th '07 |
Workflow Foundation source code...
Serge Luca
According to Scott Guthrie, the source code of the .Net framework libraries 3.5 will be released under Microsoft Reference License.
This is going to be great for all of us who use Reflector on a daily basis but who don't want to post on the MS code for legal reasons.
So we'll be able to dig into the .net framework code from within our (VS2008) debugger; by the way , we already did it ten years ago with the C++ Microsoft Foundation Class Library. Great posts in perspective...Thanks MS! mmh wha [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 3rd '07 |
Sharepoint Page Processing Model
Serge Luca
When I teach a Sharepoint course for U2U, I like to spend some time on the Page Processing Model (+ the role of IIS, ASP.Net and Sharepoint specific components like the Sharepoint modules, page layout, etc...)
The following URL (from the Sharepoint 2007 sdk 1.2) provides an excellent explanation. I didn't noticed it before...
More informations can be provided by opening up the Web Application's global.asax (where you'll find a reference to the SPHttpApplication) and the web.confi [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 3rd '07 |
The Workflow Foundation for Sharepoint series will continue...
Serge Luca
I've received tons of e-mail about the next "episodes" of my "Workflow for Sharepoint " series.
I've been very busy on other works with U2U and Microsoft these last days (just have to teach a Oba Train the Trainer for U2U & Microsoft in China next week if I can get a visa ), I'm also working with Microsoft learning on creating some of the next Workflow Foundation beta certifications exams questions, and I'll be back on track for the serie.
There are some very interesting of oba patt [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 2nd '07 |
Workflow Foundation is "very" single threaded, but...
Serge Luca
Workflow Foundation is single threaded (one thread at a time will run your workflow instance, but the workflowRuntime is multithreaded : several workflows can run simultaneously), even when we use the ParallelActivity which coordonates execution of activities in multiple branches in a round-robin fashion; this doesn't mean the same thread will always run the workflow instance: indeed, if we use the DelayActivity (or if the workflow wait for another kind of message), the running thread [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 26th '07 |
Teaching the Oba Train the Trainer in Paris with the Redmond Team
Serge Luca
the last 2 weeks have been very busy : I've prepared the OBA Train the Trainer session that I had to teach last week in Paris for Microsoft.
This course has been created by Patrick Tisseghem for Microsoft.
OBA means Office Business Application (see: www.obacentral.com and Office Business Application Portal) and that is really what I like : building real applications from existing building blocks like Office client, .Net, Sharepoint, Open XML and several nice patterns.
Very exiting was [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 23rd '07 |
Blog list: More Bloggers
Serge Luca
More BloggersDino EspositoMicrosoft MSDN bloggersSharepoint bloggersAlistair Cockburnuse cases, agile, crystalMartin FowlerProcess, agile, patterns,...Team SystemJames Con (MS)WWFKen Schwaber Scrum web siteScrumRay Ozzie (MS)collaboration, Groove,...Dennis Pilarinos (MS)WWF PMDon Box (MS)WCF,ComMS sharepoint team(MS)Scott Guthrie(MS)Asp.netChris Sells(MS)Belgian & Lux MSDN .Net bloggers.NetDavid Boschman(MS)MSDN BeluxTom Mertens [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 16th '07 |
Blog list: Workflow F bloggers
Serge Luca
Workflow F bloggersMoustafa KhalilMS WF teamDharma ShuklaMS WF teamTom LakeMS WF teamDon McCradyMS WF teamNate TalbertMS WF teamSteve DanielsonMS WF teamJon FlandersMS WF rules teamMS WF teamPaul AndrewMS WF team (and a kiwi;)Kavita KamaniMS WF teamGhenadieMS WF team [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 16th '07 |
My live (hotmail) mail account moved to 5 GB !!!!
Serge Luca
here is what I saw this evening in my Windows live mail(hotmail) account:
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Posted: Thu, Aug 30th '07 |
Around the globe
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Posted: Wed, Jun 13th '07 |
my album
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