April 2009 Entries

SharePoint Site Definition Provisioning Order

When you use site definitions to create sites it's often pretty unclear what the order is in which the sites are provisioned. Knowing the order can be important if you want to make several changes to your site that are dependent on each other. In that case you need to know how to make sure that the changes are executed in the right order. Site Definition Provisioning Order Url for the site is created Global onet.xml is provisioned Site collection (SPSite) scoped features defined in onet.xml are activated in the order in which they are listed in the onet.xml Site collection scoped stapled features are...

My Microsoft Certified Master experience

  Since a lot of people are interested in the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) experience I'm going to try and write a blog about it. Note that this will just be a post on how I experienced the program. I can't elaborate on the actual content of the training, although I will blog on specific topics later on.   It was great, very intense, so usefull, terrific, brutal, fantastic, fascinating, informative, overwhelming… Ok, so it's very difficult to describe. I will give it a try.   The group of students consisted of 16 SharePoint experts. All people that have a lot of experience in doing...