When Software Attacks!

Content Types programmatically added to SharePoint libraries not appearing on New menu

This one caused some consternation, I can tell you. As usual, the solution could be found on the great wide web, but it took some digging, so as usual I am repeating it here. As part of a SharePoint migration we did recently, we replaced a SharePoint 2007 feature that the client was using (which added content types to libraries from a central list) with a mix of content type replication and PowerShell to add the content types to the libraries.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Monday, April 4, 2011

Errors with TMG + Exchange Edge Connector + FPE resulting in rejected emails

Frustrating errors with little or no explanation… Once again I find myself wiring a blog post in order to save people the time we spent figuring out what was going on and getting help with our fault. We have Microsoft Threat Management Gateway installed at our perimeter. The Exchange 2010 Edge Connector is also installed as our mail gateway, and finally Forefront Protection for Exchange (FPE) deals with mail scanning. There are some gotchas that can trip you up when installing that lot, which I suppose I should put in another post, but the overall result is that you can manage the email filters (spam, malware etc) from within TMG’s console.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Server Core, Hyper-V and VLANs: An Odyssey

A sensible plan This is a torrid tale of frustration and annoyance, tempered by the fun of digging through system commands and registry entries to try and get things working. We’ve been restructuring our network at Black Marble. The old single subnet was creaking and we were short of addresses so we decided to subnet with network subnets for physical, virtual internal and virtual development servers, desktops, wifi etc. We don’t have a huge amount of network equipment, and we needed to put virtual servers hosted on hyper-v on separate networks so we decided to use VLANs.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Monday, December 6, 2010

Powershell to find missing features in SharePoint 2010

When migrating from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, no matter how hard you try there’s always the chance the the content database upgrade process will throw out errors about features being referenced that are not present in the farm. We have used Stefan Goßner’s WssAnalyzeFeatures and WSSRemoveFeatureFromSite (see his original article) to track down the references and exterminate them. It’s not the fastest thing on two legs though, and I have a fondness for having my SharePoint 2010 tooling in PowerShell because of the flexibility it gives me.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Friday, November 19, 2010

Enabling the TaxonomyFieldAdded feature to fix ManagedMetadata Column errors

We’re working on a solution at the moment that uses a custom site definition. For various reasons we stated with the Blank Site definition and worked from there. Our customisations include content types using custom columns that link to managed metadata term sets. We create all those through features – great! The tricky bit came when after deployment our managed metadata columns were greyed out. Examining the column we say an error telling us that the feature supporting the functionality was not activated.

Posted by Rik Hepworth on Thursday, November 11, 2010