André Vala

SharePoint 2007 Deployment: Feature Stapling

Andre Vala
posted on 2009-04-25
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Summary This post is about developing features that associate other features to an existing site definition. This is one of the most powerful types of feature since it allows you to add new

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SharePoint 2007 Deployment: Content Type Binding Features

Andre Vala
posted on 2009-03-31
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Summary This post is about developing features to bind content types to lists that were provisioned through an onet.xml file. Check the first post SharePoint 2007 Deployment: Overview for an

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SharePoint 2007 Deployment: Event Registration Features

Andre Vala
posted on 2009-02-21
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Summary This post is about developing features to register event receivers. Check the first post SharePoint 2007 Deployment: Overview for an introduction and the series index. Package Structure As I

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DevDays 2009

Andre Vala
posted on 2009-02-20
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Terminou ontem o DevDays 2009, o evento anual da Microsoft Portugal destinado a juntar profissionais e curiosos em torno das tecnologias da casa. Este ano foi organizado no campus do Tagus Park do

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SharePoint Tips #25: Beware of User Profile Import

Andre Vala
posted on 2009-01-31
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Among SharePoint 2007’s User Profile features, one of the most useful is the Profile Import. This feature allows you to import existing user accounts from Active Directory, an LDAP server or the

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SharePoint 2007 Deployment: Module Features

Andre Vala
posted on 2009-01-10
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Summary This post is about developing features to deploy files in a SharePoint site (module features). Check the first post SharePoint 2007 Deployment: Overview for an introduction and the series

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SharePoint Tip #24: Changing a Web Site’s Navigation Settings

Andre Vala
posted on 2008-12-06
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Changing a web site’s navigation settings is pretty easy using the SharePoint user interface. You just click the Site Actions button, select the Site Settings option, and click on Navigation.

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SharePoint Tip #23: Creating a Personal Site

Andre Vala
posted on 2008-10-18
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The User Profile is the central concept behind the personalization features of SharePoint (MOSS only). In addition to the User Profile, each user can have a My Site. A My Site is composed of: A

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SharePoint Tip #22: Create a User Profile

Andre Vala
posted on 2008-10-16
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The best way to create SharePoint User Profiles is to import them from somewhere (Active Directory for instance). This is specially true if you want to create a lot of them at once. However, if you

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SharePoint Tip #21: Importing User Profiles

Andre Vala
posted on 2008-10-15
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One of the best things of SharePoint's User Profiles, is that the profile data can be imported from several data sources (Active Directory or other LDAP directories, Databases and web services).