Recently I’ve been working to migrate a custom content type deployed with a feature from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 resulting in a lot of errors. Depending on what changes I made to the content type xml file I got different errors. [More]

While developing a sandboxed solution in SharePoint 2010 using the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint developer tools it happened that I wasn’t able to deploy the solution using F5. The error message wasn’t exact on how to solve the problem. [More]

How to install SharePoint in real world isn’t a matter of doing it’s a matter of planning. Of course there can be a lot of difficulties and problems during the deployment process itself but with a bad planning it’s even hard to get to that point. Here are some thoughts which may be helpful. I’m interested in your thoughts and tips… [More]

Content Generator is a professional site provisioning tool that allows the automatic creation of SharePoint content and structure including list items, documents, lists, pages, sites and sub site collections. With an easy to use editor, jobs and templates it enables you to recreate content on different SharePoint farms. Content Generator gives your software engineers the ability to develop in a - real world - environment which is similar to your customers’ information architecture. Development and quality assurance can be done in a more efficient way. [More]

Almost a year ago I have written the SharePoint 2010 installation guide and since that there are a lot of comments and learning's. Before I go into detail: Yes I will release a PDF document including all parts about how to install SharePoint 2010. This depends on another project I’m doing so I don’t know when. [More]

You can group SharePoint 2010 services using the SharePoint 2010 object model and a high level point of view. The following services can be grouped into Windows Services: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Administration, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Database, SharePoint Foundation (Help) Search and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Timer. [More]