Cory Peters

Modifying WSP Files Directly / Manually

Cory Peters — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:40:14 +0000

Here’s a common issue: You export a site as a template, save down your WSP file, browse out to your client environment and prepare to upload your WSP but you receive an error that looks something like this: After some hunting you come to find out that your source environment had Project Server installed and ...

Office 365 Root Site Collection Bug

Cory Peters — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:44:52 +0000

Just a quick tip here. You cannot use the Publishing Portal to create root site collections in Office 365. According to Microsoft support this option may be removed in the future as the site collection provisioning process hangs. If you do happen to accidently use the Publishing Portal as your root site collection then you ...

The Windows PowerShell Command Builder

Cory Peters — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:52:17 +0000

Have you learned PowerShell yet? If not, you’re way behind. What if there was a tool that allowed you to view all of the commands that were available for SharePoint Foundation 2010, SharePoint Server 2010 and Office 365 in a way that was intuitive, task oriented and visual? What if this tool was web accessible ...

A Few JavaScript/jQuery Best Practices

Cory Peters — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:00:00 +0000

I recently completed a pretty good size HTML5, JavaScript, SharePoint 2010 application for mobile devices. I got the opportunity to use some fairly young technologies so had to dig or in some cases determine my own best practices. Here’s where I ended up after the dust settled. 1. Use Frameworks Choose your poison but there ...

Timer Jobs Not Working

Cory Peters — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:04:18 +0000

We recently had a VERY strange issue with a client. This specifically was a disaster restore where the previous environment was poorly documented. Due to a total hardware failure new hardware was provisioned… and that’s where the fun begins. We were able to get SharePoint installed and get Reporting Services fully configured in integrated mode ...

Nintex Workflow Tips & Tricks

Cory Peters — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:54:45 +0000

I’ve been working with Nintex products for a few years now with great success. In my experience their workflow and reporting products are very solid but sometimes performing complex solutions can have a learning curve. Here are a couple of tips and best practices I’ve learned over the years. During development disable Safe Looping Browse ...

Managed Account Password Management

Cory Peters — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:03:55 +0000

I like the idea of SharePoint managing my passwords for me. I like the idea of no human knowing what the service account passwords are so that they are forced to log into their own admin account before modifying anything within SharePoint. The problem with this is that I just can’t trust SharePoint to handle ...

Adding a View More Link to Web Parts

Cory Peters — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 04:33:02 +0000

When we’re designing or mocking up a SharePoint Intranet, Extranet or Internet we always talk about content roll up. SharePoint does a great job with content roll up OOTB (within the same Site Collection at least) using the Content Query Web Part. However, any time you show the client the power of the Content Query ...

Who is Rich Haddock?

Cory Peters — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:14:10 +0000

I was recently working on some new blog topics and a possible white paper when I stumbled across this little bit in SharePoint 2010. If you have worked in-depth with SharePoint publishing then you will undoubtedly be familiar with the Reusable Content capabilities within SharePoint. So, when playing around with Reusable Content in SharePoint 2010 I found ...

Adding Links to Site Settings

Cory Peters — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:11:50 +0000

In part 1 I covered Adding Links to Central Administration but now it’s time to take a look at how I added links to the site settings screen for my CodePlex creation SharePoint 2010 Site Styles. Note that the process is almost identical. So the final goal is something that looks like this: Just like ...