Dot Net Mafia

I like blogging about errors and their resolutions.  Sometimes the answer is simple, but I think there is a lot of value in posting the details of an error so that users can find answers in the search engines.  After doing a My Sites upgrade...

I survived another SharePoint Saturday in Houston this weekend and had a great time.  It was fun seeing old friends and making some new ones as well.  As promised, here is a link to my slide deck posted on SlideShare.  Thanks again to Victor...

ULS Viewer works great for finding Correlation IDs but once you start dealing with large farms, I find PowerShell works much better.  A Correlation ID is great but it doesn’t do you any good if you can’t find it in the logs.  I put this script...

I am excited that it’s already time for SharePoint Saturday Houston again this Saturday on 4/28.  We already have more than 500+ people registered and it is sure to be a huge event.  I’m speaking about new SharePoint Development features in...

Recently, I became aware of this troublesome issue in regards to document previews with FAST Search for SharePoint.  It was on a new installation of SharePoint.  I had everything indexing great and my search results looked good.  However...

Recently, a client of mine acquired some KWizCom web parts.  I installed them and they seemed to work fine.  However, during the configuration, we ended up building a new web application or two.  On these web applications, I started to...

A while back, I wrote about opening Sitecore’s media library browser from a button in the Content Editor ribbon. Recently, I decided it would be really useful to do something similar with the Field Editor dialog – only this time, from the Page Editor...

I am excited to say that I’ll be speaking at both TechEd North America and TechEd Europe .  This is my first time to even attend a TechEd so I am looking forward to see what is in store.  Both events are sure to be exciting but I am particularly...

As I have made my transition from an iPhone 4 to a Nokia Lumia 900 running Windows Phone 7, it has got me thinking about the state of the app market.  Keep in mind before you start hating, that I have carried an iOS device for the past four years...

I’ve seen this conversation come up a few times.  Deploying code to SharePoint Online is not like deploying code to your test and production environments back on-premises. I thought I would give my thoughts on it and that will help you make a better...

It’s been a busy month for speaking (among other things).  Last month, I spoke about getting started with SharePoint Online development at SharePoint Saturday New Orleans.  The New Orleans crew (Cherie, Beth, and Tiffany) did a great job putting...

I’m excited to be speaking at a number of events over the next few weeks.  The first event is SharePoint Saturday New Orleans this weekend on 3/24.  There, I’ll be speaking about developing solutions for SharePoint Online (Office 365). ...

When I am booted into Windows 8, I often find myself wanting to run some of my existing virtual machines that I created in Oracle Virtualbox of VMWare Workstation.  These products do run under Windows 8 but there are a few things you need to know...

If you have used Excel Web App (part of Office Web Apps), you are familiar with the fact that there is no “Save” button.  The changes you make are immediately saved back to SharePoint and you even have multiple people editing the spreadsheet at the...

I was working with a client recently who had purchased Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint and I came across an issue that confused me for a minute.  I installed the Metalogix SharePoint Extensions Web Services on a few farms.  However...