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Small Basic – Because it’s never to early to start programming!
I don't remember exactly how old I was when I first started programming, but it was somewhere in early primary school. My dad had just bought us a used Commodore 64 and I started playing around with...
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Error when uploading large files to SharePoint running on Windows Server 2008
A client was having problems uploading a 29 MB file to their SharePoint server. Internet Explorer would simply show the "This page can not be displayed" error page, so I figured the maximum upload size...
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Error when editing People Search Core Results Web Part XSL
Today I was tasked with removing the "Add to My Colleagues" link from the people search results. I figured this would be easy, just edit the XSL of the People Search Core Results Web Part. I simply...
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Creating an ActiveX control in .Net using C#
A while back I had a client request that I write an ActiveX control for use on their corporate intranet. I had never done this before, and most of the examples I could find online were either really...
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SharePoint does not always play nice with comments
Some days ago I was tasked with removing the "Add to my colleagues" button from the My Profile page in SharePoint. This is a one-off page located at the root of the My Site site collection named...
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Content types can be unghosted too!
Update: There is a simple solution to this problem after all. See How to ghost an unghosted content type for more details. Just about all SharePoint projects require that you create some custom content...
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400 Bad Request (Header Field Too Long) when using Kerberos authentication
A client was having a problem with his SharePoint installation a while back that really confused me at first. Some users were unable to access their SharePoint 2007 intranet after Kerberos...
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How to ghost an unghosted content type
A while back I wrote a post about content types becoming unghosted when you edit them in the UI and there not being any way of reversing this without directly modifying the content database. That would...
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How to backup SharePoint using PowerShell
Lately I've been reading up on - and experimenting with - PowerShell to automate alot of the tings I do in SharePoint. The original motivation was a deployment gone bad (ie. too many manual steps + too...
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How To Backup And Restore IIS 7 Metabase With PowerShell
As I mentioned in my last blog post I've been playing around with PowerShell for SharePoint automation for a while now. One of the problems with SharePoint is it's complicated architecture that makes a...
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