Have you ever noticed how in SharePoint 2010 Owners see the ribbon and can click Site Actions, and Readers see the ribbon too but there is no Site Actions to click. In some cases there is nothing else going on up there for Readers. It is wasted real estate! Owner: Reader: The Reader can use all the extra...

I had been tearing my hair out with his problem, and I cannot take any credit whatsoever for the solution. I fully thank Prasanjit Mandal for his excellent blog post here http://prasanjitmandal.blogspot.com/2010/06/sharepoint-timer-job-stuck-at-deploying.html on how to solve the following problem. (Please...

Recently I installed the June 2010 CU for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 on one of our farms and noticed that after the installation, the Adobe PDF iFilter stopped working; more specifically, it wouldn’t crawl the content within the PDF documents.  Quick look in the crawl log shows the following: Upon further...

As I delve deeper into styling a SharePoint 2010 site, I am discovering a few quirks here and there. Normally as each new challenge arises and I find a fix for it I just move on, rarely documenting what I did to fix the problem. This made it a bit of a challenge for me when on the next project, the same...

Every now and then a client will have some very specific requirements when it comes to the print view of their website. For those clients we will create a custom print only stylesheet that is referenced when the page is printed. I will not go into detail here about what you should include in your print...

I have been working on a SharePoint 2010 MySite implementation and wanted to do something that I thought would be fairly simple which was adding a Content Editor Web Part to the page. When I went to add the web part I noticed it did not show up in the gallery. I figured it must be because of the template...

One of the first things you will probably ask yourself when you start embarking on SharePoint 2010 development is where do you set up your development environment. As I started investigating this, I realized there are a number of various options each with their own implications. Below is listing of each...

In my last post I mentioned I had the privilege of attending the SharePoint 2010 conference. In this post I'd like to review the things I think were quite notable based on the sessions I attended: Sandboxed Solutions: I have run into a lot of clients who want to use SharePoint as their application...

So this is my first blog post...ever! Yeah, I'm pretty excited that I have finally taken the plunge and decided to write about something, so here goes... I have been working at imason for over 6 years now and in that time my main technology focus has been around SharePoint. I was lucky enough to...

Problem: You've been asked to create a graphic design that can be applied to a SharePoint 2007 site - but you've never seen one before. Or, you've seen one but don't have access to the CSS to see how things are set up. Here are some basic guidelines for creating a graphic design that...