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• FBA and SQL Server: A Love Story

  My colleague has been working on a web part in an FBA environment. Among other things, the web part pulls some data from SQL server. The grand plan for this project dictates that a DBA configures data level security in SQL (as opposed to embedding a user... Posted Jun 24 2008, 08:30 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: None

• Adding to the Lore: SSRS Tells Me "rsAccessDenied", But ... I Really DO Have Access

  A few weeks back, I was working with my developer colleague on a project involving SQL Server Reporting Services plug-in for MOSS. He was developing a web part that provides a fancy front-end to the report proper (the main feature being a clever lookup... Posted Jun 23 2008, 09:22 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: None

• SharePoint Security: The Evils of RunWithElevatedPrivilege (and our hero, SPUserToken)

  Since I've been ranting on this for a few days, I thought I'd wrap it up. When SPSecurity was first found, we thought it was the best thing in the API since since SPPeanutButter. We used it... we abused it... we loved it. Over the course of the... Posted Jun 05 2008, 03:38 PM by Daniel Larson's Developer Blog Filed under: None

• Minor Public Announcement: Windows Live Security Settings and Contacting Space Owners

  I receive a handful of messages from individuals via the built-in "send a message" function Microsoft provides with live spaces (which also hosts my blog) every month. About one third of the time, those users have secured their live spaces account... Posted Feb 28 2008, 08:35 AM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: None

• Are "Unknown Error" Messages Really Better Than a Stack Trace?

  I was reading Madhur's blog post on how to enable stack trace displays and now I'm wondering: why don't we always show a stack trace? Who came up with that rule and why do we follow it? End users will know something is wrong in either case... Posted Feb 11 2008, 08:11 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: None

• Evil Microsoft URL

  I do a Google search: I click on the link highlighted above ("Download details: Windows SharePoint..."). I get this: Note the URL. Looks pretty suspicious to me. I don't know if I should laugh, chuckle or call a priest. </end> Technorati... Posted Feb 08 2008, 06:59 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: None

• Event ID 1023: "Windows cannot load extensible counter DLL MSSCNTRS"

  I have noticed that lately, my desktop/server fan never turns off. I know it used to turn off. I took a moment to check it out noticed that the a VMware process was running a consistent 20% utilization on one of the CPU's. I checked the event log... Posted Jan 25 2008, 07:37 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: None

• Forum Discussion: Enforcing Best Practices Compliance in Non-Trivial MOSS Environment

  A fellow, "Mark", has started up a potentially interesting newsgroup discussion focusing on "establishing excellent SharePoint Governance from the start" for a 35,000 user environment. The discussion is here: http://groups.google.com... Posted Jan 25 2008, 06:37 AM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: None

• Custom Action URL Won't Display for New Feature

  I'm still in the habit of crafting my feature XML files by hand since it's all quite new to me. I don't want to rely on a front-end tool that does stuff I don't understand (he said as he wrote a blog entry using a tool he does not understand... Posted Jan 24 2008, 06:30 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: None

• SharePoint Security Fundamentals Primer / Avoid Common Pitfalls

  Overview: SharePoint security is easy to configure and manage. However, it has proven to be difficult for some first-time administrators to really wrap their hands around it. Not only that, I have seen some administrators come to a perfect understanding... Posted Nov 26 2007, 07:52 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space: Blog Filed under: None

• Quick & easy url Encoding desktop utility

  I've been needing to url-encode some strings this week and slapped together a a little utility that I thought I'd put up on SkyDrive for the community. Get the binary here: http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/SharePoint/WinUrlEncode... Posted Nov 08 2007, 07:21 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space: Blog Filed under: None

• SharePoint Designer -- Custom activity to execute user-defined C# functions

  I've uploaded a visual studio project here: http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/SharePoint/codeplex.zip This project provides a custom activity in SharePoint Designer. Use this custom activity to invoke (dispatch) any C# function... Posted Oct 28 2007, 10:46 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space: Blog Filed under: None

• Tell me about your blog!

  If you maintain a blog that is at least minimally connected to SharePoint, please let me know in comments. I would love to add you to my blog list . If you maintain a blog that is not connected to SharePoint but want me to add it anyway, let me know.... Posted Oct 14 2007, 06:37 AM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space: Blog Filed under: None

• Give good news frequently; give bad news early

  I've been a consultant for a lot of years now and as any experienced consultant knows, good communication is one of the key pillars to the successful delivery of a project. It's so obvious, it's really almost boring to talk about. This isn't... Posted Oct 11 2007, 08:25 AM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space: Blog Filed under: None

• MOSS/WSS Search results (and dataviews): view the raw XML data

  This may be obvious to many, but while studying for my MOSS programming exam, I learned that it's pretty easy to get the actual XML from a search query via the user interface. One quick method is as follows: Access advanced search. Perform a search... Posted Sep 22 2007, 04:51 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space: Blog Filed under: None

• No CQWP for WSS? Try this...

  I see that Eric Kraus was faced with a requirement normally met with a content query web part. The problem? He was in a pure WSS environment with no access to the CQWP. Rather than curling up in the fetal position (an urge I have to fight every day, it... Posted Sep 22 2007, 01:52 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space: Blog Filed under: None

• WSS, doc libs & lists, Calculated columns involving [Me]

  Someone on the Internets was asking about how to create a calculated column on a list that would show a value formatted as "[User] - [Status] - [Location]" as in "Paul Galvin - Drinking [free] Beer - The Beach". Paul would go in and... Posted Sep 20 2007, 07:41 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space: Blog Filed under: None

• MOSS: Effective introduction to an Organization

  Overview : This entry describes some background information on a large (3,000 users) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) rollout and what we did to get the project rolling in such a way that the client is happy and firmly down a path that ends with... Posted Sep 09 2007, 10:38 AM by Paul's space: Blog Filed under: None

• Learning Agile // Scrum

  I asked for some advice today on good resources for getting started with learning Agile and Scrum. Here is a summary of the response. I trust the sources but I don't know that this is comprehensive (I'm sure it is not). I may have transcribed... Posted Sep 06 2007, 04:22 PM by Paul's space: Blog Filed under: None