PowerShell – Delete all “deleted” site collections in a web application

When you delete a site collection, it actually stays kicking around for a while, as explained at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chaks/archive/2011/06/30/sharepoint-2010-sp1-...
17 May 2012

itgroove Principal Earns MVP for 4th Year

17 May 2012

Check SharePoint 2010 anonymous permissions

Great PowerShell for checking the state of SharePoint anonymous permissions from Max Ruswell at Microsoft:

SharePoint PowerShell Script ...
16 May 2012

CKS Dev New Release 2.4 – Content Type With Event Receiver and Web Template SPI

This project extends the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint project system with advanced templates and tools. Using these extensions you will be able to find relevant information from your SharePoint environments without leaving Visual Studio. You will have greater productivity while developing ShareP...
7 May 2012

Object in the sharepoint administrative framework, SPsolutionLanguagePack Name=0, depends on other objects which do not exist

I encountered the following error today when trying to use the Sharepoint 2010 Management Shell Add-SPSolution to install a .WSP

“an object in the sharepoint administrative framework, “SPsolutionLanguagePack Name=0″, depends on other objects which do not exist”

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4 May 2012

Nintex Custom Actions permissions – Understanding RunWithElevatedPrivileges

When trying to do a simple System.IO.File.Copy inside the context of a Custom Nintex Action I wrote, I found that I couldn’t get the file to copy to a particular Windows Server File Share. Even though I had assigned the user name that was running the Nintex Workflow Read/Write permissions o...
17 Apr 2012

Open modal dialog and refresh the parent page from custom form SharePoint 2010

What

You need to open a SharePoint 2010 popup (SPModalDialog) and refresh the parent page on close.

So What

End Users get griefed when they add an amazing new bit of content to SharePoint, but after submitting it’s not immediately visi...
11 Apr 2012

Nintex – Specified value is not supported for the urlOfFile parameter

Recently after a Ninxtex migration/version update we encountered the following error when trying to publish any workflow:

SharePoint 2010 101 Code Samples set of examples is an excellent starting point for Developing with SharePoint.

Each code sample is part of the SharePoint 2010 101 code samples project. These...
3 Apr 2012

Shrink wrap your DLLs with Retail Mode

It happens: someone’s trying to debug a problem in a rush, a dev environment gets migrated – sometime’s it happens that your web.config Debug Mode switch gets inadvertently left in “true” mode. This is all kinds of bad- ScottGu highlights:

1) The compilation o...
24 Mar 2012

CKS Development Tools Edition for Visual Studio: New Version Out

Overview

The Community Kit for SharePoint: Development Tools Edition extends the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint project system with advanced templates and tools...
22 Mar 2012

itgroove becomes a Veeam ProPartner

15 Dec 2011

itgroove Adds to SharePoint Team

19 May 2011