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Inconvenient provisioning Web Parts to Wiki Pages in Sandboxed Solutions

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Visual Studio 2001 Properties window showing properties of a SharePoint Project
Sandboxed Solutions are a powerful way to create SharePoint 2010 Solutions in a secure manner. The price of security however is limited access to the SharePoint API which makes it challenging to accomplish certain tasks like provisioning Web Parts to Wiki Pages. Find out how to provision Web Parts to Wiki Pages in Sandboxed Solutions. Read more »

Granting permissions to the User Profile Service Application using PowerShell

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The 'Connection Permissions for User Profile Service Application' modal window displayed in Central Administration
In my previous article I explained how access permissions to the User Profile Service Application are required if you want to programmatically configure Navigation of a Publishing Site in SharePoint 2010. In the article I showed you how you can configure grant required permissions manually. There are however scenarios when you might need to configure those permissions in a structured and repeatable way. Find out how to grant permissions to the User Profile Service Application using PowerShell. Read more »

Programmatically configuring menu items in SharePoint 2010 revisited

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Exception displayed in a PowerShell window
A while ago I wrote about how you can programmatically configure menu items in SharePoint 2010 using PowerShell. Unfortunately it turns out that it doesn’t always the way you would expect it to. Find out how to get the script working in your SharePoint environment. Read more »

Preventing authenticated visitors from browsing system pages

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System paged opened by an authenticated visitor
When building an Internet-facing website on the SharePoint 2010 platform, the last thing you want is to have your visitors browse your system pages. To prevent this from happening, SharePoint 2010 has the ViewFormPagesLockdown Feature. But what if your visitors are authenticated? Read more »

Provisioning Publishing Pages using PowerShell

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The Import Publishing Pages PowerShell script opened in Visual Studio 2010
A while ago I presented you the Mavention Export Page extension that allows you to export preconfigured Publishing Pages so that they can be provisioned using Features. If, however, creating Features is too much overhead to you and you are more of a PowerShell guy, you might wonder how to provision exported Publishing Pages using PowerShell. Read more »

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