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SharePoint 2010: Activating My Sites

stijn.menu@euri.com — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:44:00 GMT

Although setting up the My Sites web sites is described in this TechNet article, there are a couple of things you will need to take care of to get the complete My Sites functionality working, especially if you don't want to use the default settings.

First of, where do you find the place to enter the settings?

On the start page of the Central Administration you will find a link to "Manage service applications" under the "Application Management" header. In the list of service applications, choose "User Profile Service Application".

This will bring you to a page where there is a paragraph "My Site Settings". Most of the things you have to do, will be located in this paragraph, though not everything.

A good first step is to check out the default settings. So choose "Setup My Sites" and see what is alreay in there. The three most important things here are:

My Site Host
Personal Site Location
Site Naming Format

For us to run through the complete workflow, let's say these settings are not to your liking and you want to change them. What steps do we need to take to change the entire setup.

By Ronny Gabriels, SharePoint Team Leader, Euricom

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MOSS 2007: Create Subsite permission blocks feature activation

stijn.menu@euri.com — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:49:00 GMT

Last week we had a strange thing happen to one of our customers. While trying to activate one of our custom features containing some webparts, the person got an "Access Denied" error message. This is certainly not surprising until we found that this person was a Site Collection admin and therefore an admin for the site he was trying to activate the feature in.

After some intensive search to found out what the problem was, we found that it was in fact a user permission that was turned of for the web application that was the problem. With this permission turned of the Site Collection admin (or any other person with enough permissions on the site to activate features) wasn't able to activate any features containing webparts. Even standard MOSS features like SharePoint Search features were affected. Features not containing webparts where no problem however.

The fact that a user permission for the web application prohibits this is on its own not that surprising, but the permission is called "Create Subsites" and that has, in our eyes at least, nothing to do with activating features.

By Ronny Gabriels, SharePoint Team Leader, Euricom

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Silverlight 4 beta 1 - Ready for LOB Action

stijn.menu@euri.com — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:02:00 GMT

Christmas came early this year for all Microsoft techies out there. Not only the releases of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but also the imminent releases of .Net 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010 product families. Not content with giving us all of this to play with Microsoft at PDC 2009 announced a whole raft of new betas including the new like Sharepoint 2010 and my personal favourites Silverlight 4 and WCF RIA Services.

By Nick Verschueren, .Net Solutions Architect

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SharePoint 2010 beta has arrived!!

stijn.menu@euri.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:13:00 GMT

For those out there with an MSDN or TechNet subscription and an interest in SharePoint, make your way to one of the two sites and find the bèta release for SharePoint 2010 waiting for you there.

Finally!!

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SharePoint 2010 as an additional ASP.NET framework

stijn.menu@euri.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:58:00 GMT

With the 2010 release of SharePoint, Microsoft is bringing the development of custom features for their collaboration platform closer to the mainstream .net development world. This brings with it new opportunities and more importantly, a new way of looking at web-based development in a whole.

By Ronny Gabriels, SharePoint Team Leader, Euricom

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Scrum people versus process

stijn.menu@euri.com — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:55:00 GMT

In a thought provoking article, David Harvey presents an alternative Scrum picture to replace the iconic version we’re so used to. Very much worth to read.

By Peter Notenbaert, .Net Solution Architect

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How To: Add a line guide to Visual Studio

stijn.menu@euri.com — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:38:00 GMT

A lot of times you see developers writing code that, in order to read it, you have to scroll half an hour to the right because one line of code contains like a thousand characters. To (try to) avoid this, you can add a registry setting that displays a line in a specific color and at a specific position to indicate a marker for the desired maximum line length in the Visual Studio Text Editor.

By Kurt Torfs, .Net Solutions Architect

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SharePoint for IT management: The therapy, not the medicine - Part 9 - The Implementation

stijn.menu@euri.com — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:14:00 GMT

Previous Chapter: Part 8 - The Management

So what do you do when you have decided that SharePoint is for you? How do you get started? In this chapter I’ll try to provide an answer to those questions. But I have to issue a warning here. This is one view, an opinion that, although fueled by experience, might still not be the ideal way for you and your company or department. We won’t go into too much detail so the “solution” stays as generic as possible and therefore as widely applicable as possible.

Typically, since it is a server product, SharePoint is treated like other Microsoft server products. You install it, configure it and start working with it. Wrong! I can guarantee you that if you do this, after six months, you will have a very big SharePoint environment, but nobody will be able to work with it or find anything on it. No, what you should do it treat it as an application development and that starts with … analysis.

By Ronny Gabriels, Functional Analyst and ex-.net Solution Architect

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SharePoint for IT management: The therapy, not the medicine - Part 8 - The Management

stijn.menu@euri.com — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:38:00 GMT

Previous Chapter: Part 7 - The Documents

I think from all the chapters before this one, it’s pretty clear that SharePoint can really help you and your department. The thing is that if you are not already working with a system like this, there will always be people reluctant to use it. Because change is change and some people just don’t know how to deal with that. Especially when you have a very diverse group of people in your department ranging two maybe even three generations, there will be those who see it as a new toy and does who see it as an obstacle. That’s where you as a manager can make the difference. A lot of the work convincing people of the benefits and strengths will feel, and actually be, an internal marketing campaign. Something you might even want to spend some money on, since the benefits will increase exponentially with the number of people using it. Collaboration and communication only works if almost everybody uses it and uses it correctly. You can compare it to the telephone network. What good would it be if you could only reach 50% of your friends through it? The success, just as it will be with SharePoint, lies in the fact that everybody can be reached through it.

By Ronny Gabriels, Functional Analyst and ex-.net Solution Architect

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Changing the URL of Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 Beta 1 to a FQDN

stijn.menu@euri.com — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:05:00 GMT

Yesterday I’ve installed a new TFS 2010 Beta 1. Everything was working well from the first time, but we could only access the server with his local name. Our developers work both at the office and at home, so we wanted to enable a (public) fully qualified domain name. The TfsAdminTool seems to be gone so I couldn’t configure the connections like I did with TFS 2008. I couldn’t find either a simple solution but the following procedure did the job. (Without reinstall TFS)

By Wim Van Hoye, Technology Manager

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