InfoWorker Solutions

MOSS WCM: Publishing Images and Thumbnails

2009-11-14T17:44:00.010+01:00

A rather nice SharePoint feature for standard image libraries (type 109) is that when uploading a picture, it will automatically create a thumbnail and a compressed, web friendly version of the picture in the _t and _w hidden folders. Unfortunately the MOSS WCM PublishingImages list is not an image library, but rather a document library. This is so because the published start and end date/time

Secure External SharePoint Sites for Anonymous Access

2009-10-14T09:49:00.003+02:00

As there is some blogging about exploiting unsecured SharePoint _layouts and _vti_bin pages out there, posts that don't tell you how to actually secure those pages and prevent the exploit, I thought why not just post the recommended lockdown method: Locking down Office SharePoint Server sites It is not enough just to enable the SharePoint WCM publishing lockdown mode feature, as this only limits

SharePoint Farm using Kerberos on IIS7

2009-10-01T08:09:00.052+02:00

Kerberos is recommended as the authentication mode in SharePoint due to security, performance and not least delegation (impersonation, double-hop) reasons. I won't go into details on the benefits here, but rather point to some good resources you will need when configuring Kerberos for SharePoint. Configuration of Kerberos is not part of the SharePoint installer, except for popup boxes warning you

SharePoint Site Structuring: Wide vs Deep (Part II)

2009-09-18T13:31:00.025+02:00

In my last post, I presented a SharePoint site classification & structuring scheme for realizing the information architecture (IA) structural design of your information space to facilitate content organization. SharePoint has five main content containers that can be combined to best structure the content according to your IA: Root site-collections: container for portal, home sites Explicit

Classification and Structuring of SharePoint Sites (Part I)

2009-09-06T11:27:00.043+02:00

As part of my work as a SharePoint architect, I almost always run into poorly designed and structured SharePoint solutions. Mostly because consultants hardly ever seems to read and really understand the Technet SharePoint Site Structure Planning and the SharePoint Logical Design and Architecture guidelines or do any information architecture (IA) analysis. What is needed is a simple 'four category

Puzzlepart - Exciting Times Ahead

2009-08-31T18:05:00.007+02:00

Today was my last day as an MSFT FTE, tomorrow I'm co-founder and partner at Puzzlepart - as the second person in the company after my old colleague Mads Nissen.At Puzzlepart we will continue our joint SharePoint adventure. Together we have delivered quite a few SharePoint and MSCRM solutions, such as this case study shown by Steve Ballmer himself at the 2005 business summit. As you can see from

DDD Lessons Learnt: Fat Domain Model, Concrete Aggregate Entity

2009-08-17T08:12:00.011+02:00

It's been five years since Eric Evans' classic book Domain-driven design: tackling complexity in the heart of software was published. Last week two interesting articles came out; What I've learned about DDD since the book by Eric himself and Domain Models: Employing the Domain Model Pattern by Udi Dahan. They both talk of lessons learnt about some of the concepts of domain-driven design (DDD).Udi

List Content Type Fields & Forms: CAML vs Code

2009-07-02T08:30:00.031+02:00

In a feature based site definition I recently made, I had a site content type hierarchy with a base content type and two child content types defined in a feature. The child types inherits their site columns and display/edit/new form from their parent.Another dependent feature contained a list definition and a provisioned list instance that would reference the two child site content types and thus

Review: Building the SharePoint User Experience

2009-07-01T10:00:00.028+02:00

Lately I've been reading Building the SharePoint User Experience by fellow Norwegian Bjørn Furuknap, and it is an easy read even if it covers "under the hood" aspects of SharePoint UX such as list definitions, site definitions, content types, custom fields, features, stapling, onet.xml, and the beast itself: CAML. Don't be fooled by the term UX, this book is not about doing SharePoint design

SharePoint jQuery: Managing Scripts

2009-06-16T13:48:00.018+02:00

In the two previous posts, I've shown some jQuery scripts for manipulating the SharePoint user interface by adding the scripts directly as source text in a Content Editor Web Part (CEWP). This is, however, not a good way of adding the scripts to pages considering maintenance and sharing of the provided functionality across multiple pages. Just think of making a correction to the generic scrolling

SharePoint Site Relative CEWP Included Script

2009-06-16T13:24:00.005+02:00

This post is about injecting site relative JavaScript include files in SharePoint using CEWP. It is not about injecting JavaScript files using the server-side ASP.NET script manager or any other server-side mechanism.We all know that the src attribute of the