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Date: 08/30/2015
How To: Update Site Collection Quotas For Existing Site Collections
Setting the default quota template for site collections in a web application is easy enough. But...
Date: 02/25/2011
Adding users and claims to a site from PowerShell
Update: Astute readers will note that the following examples make use of the scratch custom claims...
Date: 12/02/2010
The Scratch Custom Claims Provider
Frequently, I find it useful to have a common starting point – what Raymond Chen describes as a...
Date: 12/01/2010
How often will FillClaimsForEntity in my Custom Claims Provider be called?
This was the question I posed to a colleague this morning. His answer surprised me – “Every time you...
Date: 11/30/2010
Configuring Failover Databases - and Removing That Configuration
SharePoint 2010 supports database mirroring for just about every database you can think of (there...
Date: 11/26/2010
Trusted Identity Providers & User Profile Synchronization
Recently, a few people have been trying to figure out how to get user profile synchronization...
Date: 07/19/2010
Multiple Authentication Providers in SharePoint 2010, Part II
The folks over at Orbit One Internet Solutions took my blog posting regarding automatic selection of...
Date: 06/23/2010
User Profiles & Service Application Associations
I ran into a completely understandable, but rather funny error condition today and thought I'd write...
Date: 06/17/2010
Why Is Central Administration Broken?
Answer: It's not. You just followed our guidance, and we probably should've told you a few...
Date: 06/11/2010
Stupid SharePoint PowerShell Tricks, Part I
Q: I want to enable anonymous access for a Web Application through PowerShell! A: Well, time was the...
Date: 06/02/2010
I Want You To Guess Accurately
When estimating performance and capacity, there are no guarantees except for the guarantees that you...
Date: 05/13/2010
I Didn't Even Know That That's What That Was
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1105 NPR had a great story on Morning Edition...
Date: 05/13/2010
O' Properties, Where Art Thou?
In software development, laziness is a virtue. The lineage of software is sometimes surprising. The...
Date: 05/12/2010
Multiple Authentication Methods in SharePoint 2010
In SharePoint 2007, you were limited to a single authentication mechanism per AAM zone. With...
Date: 05/10/2010
How to annoy your audience
Things to not do during a presentation: If you are using a web conferencing/presentation tool that...
Date: 05/10/2010
Resources!
Using AAM URL redirection as part of the upgrade...
Date: 05/04/2010
TechNet Web Casts
On May 4th, from 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Pacific Time in the United States, I'll be the guest on Tech...
Date: 04/23/2010
SharePoint 2010 & Service Provisioning
When you configure a particular service to run on a particular server, if the server you chose isn't...
Date: 02/26/2010
Excluding Disabled User Accounts from Profile Synchronization in SharePoint 2010
Filtering profile imports is a much more powerful experience in SharePoint 2010, due in large part...
Date: 02/20/2010
My Sites, Magic, and Randomness
Despite constant assertions by my mother to the contrary, computers don't behave randomly, nor are...
Date: 02/02/2010
SharePoint 2007 Content Deployment & IIS 7.0
By default, IIS 7.0 limits the maximum size of any request. Those of you who have implemented...
Date: 12/12/2009
Small But Wonderful
ASP.NET 4.0 includes a new member on the HttpResponse class - RedirectPermanent. Baked in support...
Date: 11/01/2009
Funtastic: disk2vhd
Have you ever gotten your system to a state that you absolutely love - all your apps and utilities...
Date: 10/29/2009
SharePoint 2010 and Kernel Mode Authentication
When IIS 7.0 shipped with Windows Server 2008, one of the many new features included this new doodad...
Date: 10/29/2009
Trivia: Shared Service Providers
Every SSP that is created in a farm is represented to the world by a virtual directory configured...
Date: 10/16/2009
The Beta Zone
I like things that break. I like new things. In the world of software, new things, also known as...
Date: 07/21/2009
Why User Testing Is So Important
I recently placed an order with a company for something my wife and I had been discussing quite a...
Date: 05/09/2009
My Favorite Interview Question
I've given plenty of interviews in my day. Almost all of them have been for highly technical...
Date: 05/09/2009
You Never Know What You Don't
I was once asked by a colleage at a previous employer what skills would be required to implement and...
Date: 05/07/2009
Self-Policing of Content
One of the most common questions I hear from Human Resources folks surounds content management of My...
Date: 01/27/2009
I hang my head, and I feel shame.
Wow. My last post was when? Scott Hanselman posts 18 times per day, while in Africa, and I haven't...
Date: 12/19/2008
Dispelling SharePoint Myths
I've heard numerous myths about SharePoint. Some were scary. Others, funny. Regardless, for your...
Date: 08/01/2008
ICallbackEventHandler
ASP.NET AJAX is a piece of fundamentally enabling technology for developers; everything from partial...
Date: 06/06/2008