Thanks for visiting my blog. Over the years, I've come to love the SharePoint community. The people are great, and I depend upon the vast resources available to help me get the job done. Now I want to give back. When you post to the forums at sharepoint.stackexchange.com, I'm committed to helping out whenever I... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010 Form cannot be rendered
The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For more information, contact your server administrator. If you're getting this error, chances are you haven't added the state service. To add the state service, you need to run some PowerShell commands, I created a small... Continue Reading →
Simplifying SharePoint User Management
One of the biggest headaches I've heard from SharePoint users and administrators is the ability to manage users, or rather the lack thereof. It is a large task to fully understand it all, and I hope to clarify some of it now. Quality user management is by far the most lacking area within SharePoint. There... Continue Reading →
Creating a new Service Application Proxy Group in SharePoint 2010
As you create and manage service applications in your farm, you may decide to create additional services for different web applications. In my case, it was rather simple. I wanted a web application that didn't use FAST, just the basic search functionality. This was on my development workstation and I wanted to keep some of... Continue Reading →
SharePoint: Search as You Type
My first CodePlex project! WOO HOO. I saw some references online about being able to search as you type in the search box in SharePoint. I thought cool and continued searching and came across a few people who have done it. I compiled and took the stuff I liked from Jan Tielens' post introducing the... Continue Reading →
SharePoint: Defaulting external links to open in a new window
Within SharePoint, you can have links to other resources outside of SharePoint. These could go to other internal systems, or external websites. Also, if you're using Enterprise Search and index websites which are not within SharePoint the search results will include links to outside of SharePoint. The issue with linking to external sites and resources... Continue Reading →
Sending SharePoint emails through the cloud
It's true! It's possible to send your SharePoint emails through the cloud, or even to your internal email server using authentication or a different port. The trick is to use a local IIS SMTP service to relay the email for you. You can configure the SMTP service to relay email to a specific host and... Continue Reading →
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