Archive for the “Configuration and Administration” Category

SharePoint Certificate errors

January 9 2012 2 comments

This article introduces some tools and practices that I’ve seen useful for tackling SharePoint 2010 errors arising from SSL Certificates. The main reason for writing this article is the “The root of the certificate chain is not a trusted root authority” – error.

Let’s first take a look at a useful tool for solving certificate errors. Windows has built in…

Read more »

Publishing cross farm Managed Metadata in cross forest environment with one way trust

April 28 2011 No comments yet

Recently we ended up in a situation where there was a need to publish services from one farm to another. Basically there’s nothing special, but we needed to do that between SharePoint farms located in different forests. Only a one way trust was established.

The main idea is that Farm 2 will produce Managed Metadata Service (MMS) to be consumed in Farm 1….

Read more »

How to Configure Crawl for Anonymous SharePoint 2010 Site

February 25 2011 One comment

Are You getting errors like described in Mikes blog? Well atleast I did, and here is one way to fix it.

First of all, you need to have a web application with only anonymous access enabled. You can have it extended to another zone, with windows authentication , to make it available for editing. Here is…

Read more »

SharePoint 2010 Dynamic Compilation of .aspx and .ascx Files with .NET 3.5

September 23 2010 No comments yet

What’s the problem?

One of our colleagues, Petri, had a problem with using extension methods in his Visual Web Parts user control (.ascx file). He had developed some extension methods and tried to use them in user control:

<%= DateTime.Now.SomeExtensionMethod() %>

And all he got was this error:

Compiler Error

Read more »

Changing The Name of The People Search Scope – Impossible?

September 21 2010 One comment

Recently I investigated the following: A SharePoint 2010 site collection created with Finnish language pack and the default search scopes (“All Sites” and “People”) defined in the Search Service Application. The site collection has a search center created with Enterprise Search Center template. As the site is in Finnish, the customer would like the search scopes to be in Finnish…

Read more »

SharePoint Security and Permission System Overview

September 1 2010 18 comments

SharePoint Permission and Security Mechanisms

From time to time, our customers ask us about how SharePoint security and permission features work, and how should they be utilized. In this post we try to walk through the basic permission and security features of SharePoint. This post is not intended to be a complete description of every security and permission related feature in SharePoint,…

Read more »
Page 1 of 41234