The SharePoint User Profile service application provides a means to offload the traffic on a domain controller when querying information in an Active Directory schema.
Category: SharePoint Development
Content relating to the development of custom solutions for SharePoint.
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SharePoint Development – Hints and Tips
(more…)A collection of hints and tips to make life working on development projects with SharePoint integrations a little easier.
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Retrieving Users in a SharePoint Group
(more…)When working programmatically with SharePoint you are likely to need to check membership of SharePoint Groups at some point. This article provides a simple route to retrieving user groups information via SharePoint’s web services.
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Word Automation Services in SharePoint 2010
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Until Office 2007, Microsoft hadn’t offered any reliable Office suite automation capabilities with the exception of client-side mail merge. This often meant companies/developers had to hand-craft Word documents at byte level, or invest in costly commercial products that did so for them. With Office 2007, Microsoft’s introduced Open XML document formats and an OpenXML SDK for developers, but it still had some short comings when working with templates or converting between file formats.