Developer Ramblings

Recently I had to move an internal CA from one server to another. That process in itself was a real pain, but after the move and reinstall of the cert services I had forgotten to install IIS so the cert installer did not give me the virtual directories for the web enrollment. I figured i would have to create the vdirs manually but then i checked the certutil.exe utility first to see if there was anything in the help screen about vdirs. Holy smokes, there is, its a –vroot paramater adding this to the certutil.ee command will automagically create you... [Read More]

Recently I have been in the process of performing a migration of a SharePoint internal site over to a new infrastructure. As most of use, during this process, I used many tools to complete the process, but the one thing I noticed is that there were all these migration utilities out there, each doing a pretty specific task, so every time we would migrated we would have to get the tools installed, etc. This sounded like a great opportunity to start playing around with creating a pluggable type application that could host multiple migration plugins, hopefully written by other sharepoint... [Read More]

After doing a lot of custom SharePoint 2007 development since MOSS was released I believe that any custom code should be written as a feature. This make for deployment/activation/deactivation from the SharePoint administrator standpoint a no brainer. So with everything developed as a feature we are going to get a excellent understanding of the feature.xml and element.xml. Now there is some great documentation on the MSDN site located here but I develop my feature.xml and elements.xml file in Visual Studio 2008 (Actually I use WSPBuilder found here, but it’s all the same) so want to use the built in intellisense.... [Read More]

Having a little extra time this weekend I figured it would be a good idea to get SQL 2008 RTM installed on a development laptop and configure SharePoint to work with it. Shouldn’t be a big issue, but as most things with technology there was a stumbling block. So I fire up the install, it goes through all the standard checks and says I need Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed. Ok, cool, so I go it the SP1 from good ol MS, Install was successful so i think all is good. Rerun the setup… KepPlunk…. Still says I have an... [Read More]

I like this quote because I think sometimes we rest to much on our previous successes. For me, once something is done I look to move on to a new challenge. I believe that is the only way to become successful otherwise you are always protecting what has been previously implemented and as we all know, things can change daily in technology. Remember… KEEP MOVING FORWARD! We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney