Eric Webb

Disable SharePoint Email Notifications

Eric Webb — Thu, 12 May 2011 00:09:10 +0000

Here’s a nice Powershell script to disable all notification emails in SharePoint 2010:

http://vallery.net/2011/01/13/disable-email-notifications-in-sharepoint-2010/

As an added bonus, you can also disable all notifications from Newsgator as well.

SharePoint 2010 – Page Layouts getting deployed as “customized”

Eric Webb — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:23:35 +0000

This is getting filed under the truly bizarre category.

I’m working on deploying a masterpage and a page layout as part of a solution package for my current client. I finished designing both files and have added them to my solution. I verified that neither had any of the “extra” markup that SharePoint Designer adds when you create files. I deployed the solution to my environment and everything worked as expected.

I then needed to make a change to the page layout. So, I made the change in the solution and re-deployed the .wsp only to find that my page layout didn’t get updated. I opened up SPD to find that my page layout was marked as “customized”! I checked all of the usual gotchas with regards to this issue (search Google) and even tried to “Revert to Site Definition”. Nothing worked.

I then noticed that Visual Studio had made all of my “” tags lowercase (). Surely that couldn’t be the issue, right? Wrong. I changed them back to “” and everything worked as expected.

I guess I should have known better since I’ve had this issue in the past with SharePoint 2007 (http://ericcwebb.com/2011/01/18/sharepoint-page-layouts-extra-markup-added/). However, I at least got an error message with that issue.

SharePoint 2010 Multi Tenancy

Eric Webb — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:45:13 +0000

Here’s a good series of articles about a really cool new feature of SharePoint 2010:

http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010mt1.aspx

Great C# Command Line Argument Parser

Eric Webb — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:40:46 +0000

Something that should be built into .Net to begin with:

http://jake.ginnivan.net/c-sharp-argument-parser

Awesome SharePoint Webpart Exception handling

Eric Webb — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:38:49 +0000

This is epic. Check out this exception handling base class for SharePoint webparts: http://andreascode.blogspot.com/2007/12/general-exception-handling-in-web-parts.html.

No more wrapping try/catch blocks in every single webpart in your project. I love it!

SharePoint PeoplePicker in a one-way trust scenario

Eric Webb — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:44:26 +0000

I was having major issues getting the people picker to work in a one way trust scenario. Here is what helped me get it working:

1. Ensure that the AD trust is working correctly. This can be done in Active Directory Domains and Trust on the Domain Controller.

2. The Farm Account should be a member of the local machine’s administrator group.

3. On the “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\14.0\Secure” registry key ensure the following permissions are in place and are being inherited in the sub-keys

* WSS_WPG Read permission
* WSS_Admin_WPG Full Control
* WSS_RESTRICTED_WPG_V4 Full Control

4. Get and copy the peoplepicker-searchadforests property value via stsadm command:
stsadm -o getproperty -url -pn peoplepicker-searchadforests

5. Clear the peoplepicker-searchadforests property value via stsadm command:
stsadm -o setproperty -url -pn peoplepicker-searchadforests -pv “”

6. Rerun the password encrypt command with different password:
stsadm -o setapppassword -password
NewPassword can be anything you want.

7. Set the peoplepicker-searchadforests property value via stsadm command:
stsadm -o setproperty -url -pn peoplepicker-searchadforests -pv

Credit for this list goes to http://www.agrypnia.com/blog/2010/12/22/sharepoint-2010-there-was-an-error-in-the-callback.html

SharePoint Page Layouts – extra markup added

Eric Webb — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:44:22 +0000

Ran into an issue where a page layout that was being deployed as a feature was throwing an error when trying to create a new page: “Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls.” I looked at the layout in the solution file and it there was nothing but Content controls. However, when I went to the server I saw a bunch of extra markup added to the end of the file. Apparently, your content tags must have the word “Content” capitalized or SharePoint assumes it just a plain .aspx page. Thanks goes to the link below for providing the solution.

http://geekswithblogs.net/Mathoms/archive/2009/02/20/moss-solutions-and-features-in-deployments–part-3.aspx