Author Archives: gavinbarron

PowerShell: Pause for specific key strokes

Posted on August 9, 2012 by gavinbarron

Today I needed to add a wait into a Powershell script, given that is a point where the user running the script needs to go do some manual steps on another server I thought it might be a good idea … Continue reading →

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I’m an MVP for SharePoint Server!

Posted on July 17, 2012 by gavinbarron

Wahooo! A couple of weeks ago I got one of the coolest emails I’ve received in my professional career, it read: Dear Gavin Barron,Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2012 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given … Continue reading →

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Whitespace: Silent Killer!

Posted on June 11, 2012 by gavinbarron

Today I went hunting in an XML file for an erroneous double space I knew was there.  I was horrified to see all those extra spaces there!!! Now this Visual Studio 2010 instance is just running the default setup with … Continue reading →

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Document Set Limitations and Considerations in SharePoint 2010

Posted on April 2, 2012 by gavinbarron

First of all, go and read the excellent article Document Set Limitations and Considerations in SharePoint 2010 written by Michal Pisarek. Ok, you’re back and have read all those? Great! I’ve got a few more for you. Shared Fields are … Continue reading →

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VS 2010: Missing Source Control Icons

Posted on April 2, 2012 by gavinbarron

So I’m working on a project with a number of other developers at present. However every so often when another developer adds files to source control when they are added to my local solution they appear unbound to source control … Continue reading →

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Create a Document Set in Code

Posted on March 15, 2012 by gavinbarron

I have a solution where we need to create custom Documents Set via code, luckily there are some good samples out there. However I ran into a strange piece of behaviour. My Document Sets were appearing as folders without Welcome … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Search: Custom Managed Property Woes

Posted on March 3, 2012 by gavinbarron

So I was working on some custom search interfaces that my team had built and was getting the infamous “Property doesn’t exist or is used in a manner inconsistent with schema settings”. Now usually this means that you’re trying to … Continue reading →

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Data import and ‘old’ dates

Posted on March 3, 2012 by gavinbarron

Running a data importing tool my team had developed I ran into this little gem: “Unhandled Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPInvalidPropertyException: Date Times before 1/1/1970 are not supported”. What the hell? I’ve entered dates prior to 1970 via the UI before. A quick … Continue reading →

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It’s been a while…..

Posted on March 3, 2012 by gavinbarron

Yeah, I’ve been neglecting my blog. My last post was waaaaay back in October, while I was attending the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the conference. However I didn’t follow through on a couple of … Continue reading →

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SPC366 Making SharePoint Websites Sing on your Smartphone

Posted on October 5, 2011 by gavinbarron

Well that was fun! I had a real blast co-presesnting that session with Chris. As promised I have a bunch of resources for you to download and peruse. Disabling Mobile Re-direction via PowerShell Hmmm, apparently WordPress won’t let me host … Continue reading →

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