Category: Programming

If you have ever tried to programmatically create a Web Application using Kerberos as authentication provider you noticed that the Authentication Provider resets to NTLM. The cmdlet to create a new Web Application is New-SPWebApplication (or New-SPWebApplicationExtension to extending an exixting one) which comes with the toggle parameter to disable Kerberos authentication (DisableKerberosAuthentication). It happens,

I normally talk about SharePoint topics but this post is also important for non-SharePoint people. First let me explain what is the relationship between impersonation and SharePoint, or better, the relationship between SharePoint and the thread [security] token. SPRequest is the unmanaged low level class in SharePoint that works as HtppHandler for SharePoint requests. In

This problem was fixed in KB961175. The patch will keep the problem from happening again in new lists/libraries you create after applying the patch. However if you have a backup before the patch the restored contents will continue to show the same error. It is also true to existing items. In order to fix this

I had put together an application to perform Load Test in both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. The application as it is now is more “Load” than “Test”. The next step will be to save the results in a database and enable live queries. I am planning to

There are some occasions in the course of work as Support Escalation Engineer in Microsoft that we rely heavily in analyzing SharePoint metadata. Installing software in a production environment is a no-no for most companies (or at least it requires a change control request). I had put together a few features in an Explorer like

I had recently faced a problem which I believe other people will face at least once: how to get the context from a URL in a C# Console Application. I needed to use ProfileLoader which requires a context. You cannot get current context when you run an application outside a Sharepoint page (like in Windows

WSS and MOSS enable outgoing e-mail configuration and most of the time this configuration is straightforward. As of matter of fact you do not have much to configure as shown below: Figure 1 – Outgoing e-mail settings   This same configuration is used for alerts and notifications as it is for invitations. Most of the

In this post we are going to explore User Profiles by extending the Organizational Hierarchy in MOSS. I’ve posted in Codeplex both installer and code for the Organizational Chart Hierarchy web part. This post will only discuss installation and configuration. I will discuss the code in posts to come. What this webpart does: This web

Whomever tried to populate a MOSS (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server) form field using Javascript noticed that it is far from being straightforward. The secret is in the undocumented core.js After a client’s request I was able to come up with a not so-intrusive Javascript solution. You have to open the site in Sharepoint Designer, navigate