SharePoint Dragons

We came across an interesting, what shall we call it, hack we guess. Suppose you have a scenario where you execute an HTTP POST and try to change something in the SharePoint content database. If you don’t have a valid FormDigest control, you’re in trouble. Apparently, there’s a hack available. If you set the HTTP context to null, the code will be treated as running from outside the Sharepoint context (e.g. from a timer job or a console application) which makes SharePoint refrain from doing a FormDigest check (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.webcontrols.formdigest.aspx).

var ctx = HttpContext.Current;

try { HttpContext.Current = null; siteCollection.Add(…); }

finally { HttpContext.Current = ctx; }

The hack is described here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010programming/thread/4f710dda-e5a4-4a56-8570-267aceff8d11

Uncategorized security, sharepoint

Adding items to SharePoint 2010 thru REST

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on March 1, 2012

We’ve found that it’s a common request that people want to add items thru REST. And may we add that REST in SharePoint turns out to be a lot more popular than we expected. Here’s a cool blog post that shows how to add items to SharePoint 2010 via REST: http://blog.tedpattison.net/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=12

Uncategorized REST, sharepoint

SharePoint Foundation Help Search

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on March 1, 2012

Ever noticed a crazy little thing called the SharePoint Foundation Help Search feature? If you activate it, the Help button next to the search input box will navigate your custom help content instead of MS online help. Here’s how you set it up: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-foundation-help/add-custom-help-to-a-site-collection-HA101833141.aspx

Uncategorized Search, sharepoint

Migrate IManage to SharePoint 2010

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on March 1, 2012

In case someone was looking. Now there is an option to migrate iManage WorkSite to SharePoint via OrbitMigrate from Galaxy9:

http://www.galaxy9.com.au/attachments/article/45/ILTA%20OrbitMigrate%20Flyer.pdf

Uncategorized sharepoint

SharePoint 2010: resources for claims authentication

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 28, 2012

Just started a Wiki page about resources for claims authentication:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7837.sharepoint-2010-resources-about-claims-authentication.aspx

You sure are welcome to take a look at it because it sure needs some filling!

Uncategorized sharepoint, wiki

SharePoint 2010 testing

2 Comments Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 28, 2012

Useful info about testing for SharePoint 2010:

Also keep track of the following WIKI page: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7828.sharepoint-2010-testing.aspx

Uncategorized sharepoint, testing, wiki

SSRS infrastructure in SharePoint 2010 integrated mode

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 28, 2012

We get asked regularly what the SSRS infrastructure looks like in SharePoint integrated mode. Well, like this:

– On the clients: rich clients optionally leverage the ReportViewer Windows Forms control, ASP.NET pages use the ASP.NET ReportViewer Web control.

– On each SharePoint WFE, you need to install the Reporting Services add-in. Every WFE also contains a report viewer web part, reporting pages to manage SSRS, and a proxy that communicates with the report server.

– On the middle-tier: SSRS can run as a true middle-tier application that doesn’t have to (but can) be hosted on a WFE. The middle tier contains the report server itself.

– Data tier: the report catalog, report data, report server config files and registry, entries in the SharePoint config database, reports stored in the SharePoint content database.

In other words, in production you do need to be able to access reports in a reports library,

None of the above options. If you’d take a look at the SharePoint 2010 Administration’s Companion by MS Press, it contains a truly awesome chapter about SSRS and PPS (just bragging, ’cause I wrote it myself :-), and it clarifies the point:

– On the clients: rich clients optionally leverage the ReportViewer Windows Forms control, ASP.NET pages use the ASP.NET ReportViewer Web control.

– On the middle-tier: SSRS can run as a true middle-tier application that doesn’t have to (but can) be hosted on a WFE. The middle tier contains the report server itself.

– Data tier: the report catalog, report data, report server config files and registry, entries in the SharePoint config database, reports stored in the SharePoint content database.

Details can be found in the SharePoint 2010 Administration’s Companion by MS Press, it contains a chapter about this topic which is truly amazing (just bragging, cuz we wrote it ourselves).