A while ago a customer had problems with his User Profile Service. Since the problems may exist on other SharePoint farms as well, I want to share the solutions I found. “Could not load user profile.” This exception occurs, if you click on a MySite link. To get rid of the problem, I had to associate the User Profile Service Application to the Webapplication, where the MySite-Host is running. The User Profile Import does not run

Every time I want to check for the latest updates for SharePoint, I search for a page where to find them. This post will help me – and you – to find this information quicker 🙂 The page has links to the latest Cumulative Updates for SharePoint Foundation and Server: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847.aspx The title of this post says Upgrade as well. If you are not looking for update information but upgrade infos, you’ll find them on the page as well.

Microsoft has published a new version of the Windows Live Tools. –> http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials What programs are included? Messenger Photo Gallery Movie Maker Mail –> Writer <– Family Safety Windows Live Mesh Messenger Companion Bing Bar Outlook Connector Pack Microsoft Silverlight If you do not know, you can use the Live Writer for blogging (with your SharePoint blog).

An important update has been released from Microsoft. It addresses an issue with ASP.NET. You should install the update ASAP. This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in ASP.NET. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could read data, such as the view state, which was encrypted by the server. This vulnerability can also be used for data tampering, which, if successfully exploited, could be used to decrypt and tamper with the data encrypted by the server.

The link: SharePoint 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit MS has released a new version of the SharePoint 2010 SDK. It contains new code samples, updated IntelliSense XML files, and updated documentation based on customer feedback. What’s New in the SDK for SharePoint Foundation 2010 What’s New in the SDK for SharePoint Server 2010 A full list of code samples can be found on MSDN Code Gallery. In the future, MS will release new versions every quarter.

Did i mention the SharePoint Search is great? Indexing your fileservers, websites and public folder (see here how to index Exchange 2010 public folders: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806927.aspx) is easy to configure. You should look at the logs, though. Warning can give you a good hint where to look to solve indexing problems. I looked at the document, which could not be indexed. My Visio 2010 opened the document without complaining. The File Tab shows some information from the document.

Every SharePoint group has a setting to prevent users, who are not members of the group, to see who actually is a member. This setting works great when you use a browser to access the group. The setting can be configured on the property page of every SharePoint group. As you can see, you’ll get a message telling you that you may not see the members of that particular group.

Like many other blogs running SharePoint, my blog uses the EBE to add more functionality to the default SharePoint blog. And since I am one of the developers of the EBE 3.0, I’m glad that we announce the release of the next release. Version 3 brings along many new features and improvements of already implemented features. New Features *Ability to theme wiki pages *Ability to export post to PDF

SharePoint 2013: If you want to install the prerequisites for SharePoint 2013, see here: Installing SharePoint 2013 Prerequisites Without an Internet Connection SharePoint 2010: Don’t leave if you read “Powershell” and think “Oh my. Why does it take Powershell to do this?”. Powershell is easy to use and a great tool for this task. This post is about installing all required components that are needed for a SharePoint 2010 installation (Hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Server 2010)).

Did you know that the latest SSRS have a build-in support for SharePoint lists as DataSource? So if you need arguments to update to SQL 2008 R2, this is one 🙂