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Entries for February, 2009

Problem with importing User profiles (0x800706D9)

For one of our clients we have got an internet facing SharePoint site. For this website SharePoint user profiles need to be available. When we configured the user profile import we came across a very strange error: There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×800706D9) After some searching we [...]

Using SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPriviledges()

The last time I have been receiving questions about using SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPriviledges in a SharePoint webpart. This made me think and I thought by myself lets write a short post with some examples about this subject. When you want to build a webpart that will be used by anonymous or read only users you often have [...]

ASP:Menu in IE8

Since a few days I have installed Internet Explorer 8 on my computer and I was curious how it would display certain sites. Till a few hours ago everything looked nice. When navigating to an internet site we had just developed for one of our clients I noticed a strange thing. On the default page [...]

Scheduling SharePoint Backup : Part 2

A while ago I posted a SharePoint Backup script so that it is possible to schedule a SharePoint Backup. I had to make some adjustments to the script because it contains small errors. The adjustments I had to make were: When you perform multiple differential backups in a week you will receive multiple e-mails for [...]

Content Editor WebPart ControlAdapter

One of our clients had a internet facing website. With this website we had a number of problems because it was deployed to our Internet facing farm with Content Deployment. The problem we had was that the Content Editor Web Part (for the rest of this article I will name it CEWP) does not allow [...]