SharePoint 2010 Install Links

Here are some links that have been useful during the SharePoint 2010 installs that I’ve done so far: Multiple servers for a three-tier farm (SharePoint Server 2010) Configure profile synchronization (SharePoint Server 2010) Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization SharePoint 2010 – Provisioning User Profile Synchronization – SharePoint Brew – Site [...]

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SharePoint 2010 – Content Types and Site Columns in .wsp’s

Remember having to create features that deploy custom content types in MOSS 2007? How painful it was? How you just really didn’t want to do it? In SharePoint 2010, it is super easy. Just see here.

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SharePoint CSS: Moving webparts

This issue has been bugging me for months. On several sites that I’ve branded, I’ve add a DOCTYPE to the masterpage that indicates to the browser to render the pages in standards mode. An unfortunate side effect of this occurs when you try to move webparts on a page: the little bar that pops up [...]

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Virtual PC: Tab/Escape not working

Today, all of the sudden the tab and escape keys stopped working in Virtual PC.  Had never happened before.  I reinstalled VM Additions, restarted the VM, nothing worked.  I then found the solution in a form post: “If you are running into this issue on Vista and Windows 7 you can get the TAB key [...]

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Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 Boot to VHD

Found this great tutorial on creating bootable, sysprep’d VHD’s on the fly here. I plan on trying this out later this week and posting my findings.

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Big javascript post

All of this javascript goodness became useful while I was using jquery to call Sharepoint web services, specifically after I wrapped all of the functionality into a class. 1.  Context – this issue arose while using jquery’s .ajax() method as so: $.ajax({ url: “../_vti_bin/lists.asmx”, type: “POST”, dataType: “xml”, data: soapEnv, complete: this.processResult, contentType: “text/xml; charset=\”utf-8\”" [...]

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Ensure Infopath Forms open in browser

Here’s a good way to ensure all of your Infopath Forms open in a browser, no matter where they’re linked from: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/koning53/archive/2009/06/10/ensuring-infopath-forms-to-open-in-forms-services.aspx

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