Content deployment (PRIME) still frustratingly buggy

Right now im investigating content deployment options at a client and even after all the infrastructure updates content deployment seems to be buggy still. Its not the fact that its just buggy, its also highly unpredictable.
Sometimes content-types just dissapear in the destination site, or the import/export gives randomly access denied on files while importing. [...]

STSADM or any assembly loading terribly slow, behind firewall or VPC/VMWARE?

A small tip which i found here: http://www.dynasign.nl/blog/?p=9 
In short:
Apparently, when STSADM executes, it tries to load strong named assemblies which need to be verified against an authentication provider externally.  When your environment has bad network access or no network access, it waites for a timeout before continuing. Which makes provisioning your sites, or any STSADM [...]

Storing files externally in MOSS to bridge ECM requirements

For those who have been with me from the beginning know that I’ve spoken quite a lot about ECM CAS (Content Addressed Storage) & HSM systems and the lack of storing files externally (ON HSM systems for instance, or file systems) in MOSS. This was one of the major drawbacks in comparison with the top [...]

Are you choosing the most efficient way for your SharePoint solutions? A look at CRM 4.0 and SharePoint.

Introduction
Now that SharePoint development becomes easier now the tools and MSDN documentation are up to date and available for everyone it seems that everyone is hammering away in SharePoint custom development. There are tons and tons of blogs explaining how to build your own functionality, custom workflows, forms, field controls and event-handlers. Which makes me [...]

Common reasons why corporate Intranet implementations fail

As an contractor, I usually get hired when something goes wrong, or need to be done immediately. Most of the times this is when projects are failing or about to fail.
I have seen a lot of development oriented companies having trouble implementing SharePoint.  Mainly, this is because these companies are used to developing software targeted [...]

Meet me at Office DevCon 2008 in Sydney!

Hi! I will be at the office DevCon 2008 in Sydney, if you are interested in meeting me and would like to discuss a bit on SharePoint project management methodologies, or SharePoint development practices I would be pleased!
I would love to share experiences and knowledge on some real-life SharePoint implementations project [...]

SharePoint Internals Happiness!

Recently when I was trying to isolate out how the SharePoint internal authentication system (ACL / ACE) worked, I ran into the following documents describing the internals of SharePoint content databases quite detailed.
The documentation is major since august already, but I thought just to give it some more attention in cause you might have missed [...]

BETA SPD Workflow Export Utility on CodePlex!

Its on CodePlex!
In follow up of my two post regarding SharePoint designer workflows http://agiledirect.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/packaging-and-re-using-sharepoint-designer-workflows-part-1/ and http://agiledirect.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/packaging-and-re-using-sharepoint-designer-workflows-part-2/ I’ve now released the BETA utility to export the workflows and package them in a feature. However, its far from production ready, so I still need to do a lot testing and bug-fixing.
Note on this release
In this release you [...]

I’m back from Hawaii

Back from Hawaii, need to get a couple of things in order and then I will post part deux (2) on SPD workflows!

Happy 2008 all!

Yes I know! 7 days late but still I wish you all a good, healthy and successful 2008! Right now I am building an TFS2008 Continuous Integration / SharePoint solution, when this is done I’ll start blogging regularly again!
Regards,
Emile Bosch