Scenario: No internet in domain controller Windows Server 2008 VM? How to fix troubles with internet access in a VM that is configured as a domain controller? Explanation: Installed SharePoint Foundation in a Windows Server 2008 Std VM. Before configuring the server as a domain controller, the VM had access... Continue reading

Scenario: Mapping the User Profile property "PictureURL" is not a straight forward process in SharePoint 2010. In our case, we needed to map this property to the attribute extensionAttribute3. It is not a straight forward process like the procedure we generally follow to set any other property mapping because the... Continue reading

Scenario: How to make a SharePoint 2010 site externally available? Explanation: This is a very fundamental scenario that many SharePoint developers may encoounter in the SharePoint world. A SharePoint site can be made externally available by following the steps below: Point the desired host name (i.e. portal.sitename.com for example) to... Continue reading

Recently we have rolled out our first SharePoint 2010 portal for a client recently. Here is a list of few lessons learned from our first SharePoint 2010 implementation. While some of them are quite simple ones, some were disasterous. Attempted to save a blog site as a template. SharePoint has... Continue reading