While working on a customer project I had to create a lot of site columns, based on the columns created by a business analyst through the user interface. As I was creating the site columns through a feature I was trying to find the Site Column Definition Schema on MSDN. And I found it. It can be found here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms459922.aspx. Too bad it 's not a complete overview. That might have something to do with the disclaimer at the top of the page though:   [This topic is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases. Blank topics are included as...

  This post is basically a reaction to http://www.mosslover.com/archive/2009/06/17/my-experience-as-a-woman-in-the-community.aspx. I completely agree with the statements made in this post, but the comment got so long that I decided to write a post about it myself.   Ok, so I guess the SharePoint community is a very lively thing where people feel the need to separate themselves into sub groups and very actively promote these groups. I don't really want to get involved in discussions like that. I just like my job a lot and I love interacting in the community and organizing community stuff. I don't care about any label, I just want...

  Lately I have been getting a lot of questions about where user data is stored and how it is synchronized within SharePoint 2007. This inspired me to write this blog post about User Profiles and the User Information List or UserInfo table. I will also do a future post on what happens when a user profile is deleted from MOSS 2007.   User Profiles The user profile store in MOSS 2007 contains information about users. User profiles can be created by importing users from a...

    As you've probably noticed by now I'm working with Nintex at the moment.   Yesterday I was trying to create a workflow that had to send a notification to a user. I added my smtp server and a from address to the Nintex outgoing email settings. Be aware that you have to set the Nintex outgoing email settings separately from the outgoing email settings for the rest of your farm. This is because  Nintex uses System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send where as SharePoint itself uses SPUtility.SendEmail  (thanks Gerard!). So Nintex doesn't take over the farm settings for outgoing email and theoratically you could use a...

  On our development environment at one of our customers we had a very weird problem with Nintex.   For one of my colleagues Nintex worked perfectly If I logged on to the server with my own account I could create or manage a workflow, but if I added a new Workflow Action the context menu of that action wouldn't work. I couldn't configure  or move the action. If I tried changing a Workflow Action that was added to a workflow by my colleague the context menu worked fine. If I logged onto the SharePoint environment using my colleagues account the context menu on new actions...

  On June 26th the next SDN Event will be held in Houten in the Netherlands. Now all SDN Events are great, but for the IW track this one will be extra special. We've got two MVPs speaking, Bob Fox and Spencer Harbar and on top of that our own Robin Meure will be presenting as well. The SDN Event is free for members of SDN and only 95 euros for non-members. Lunch is taken care of by SDN.   Right after the regular SDN Event you can have a drink and some fun with the Bob and Spence and the Dutch SharePoint...