Community Blast Provided and Sponsored by ScienceSoft. This information was provided by vendor for community education on product. No official review was performed by Vlad Catrinescu. There is no better way to find out if your SharePoint portal is healthy than to analyze its users’ buy-in. If the users are satisfied, it means the portal successfully...Read More

Community Blast Provided and Sponsored by VirtoSoftware. This information was provided by vendor for community education on product. No official review was performed by Vlad Catrinescu. VirtoSoftware is extending existing SharePoint workflow possibilities by creating a powerful 230+ custom SharePoint workflow activities set that can be leveraged by the company’s power users. Virto SharePoint Workflow Activities...Read More

I wanted to let you know about a great free event that Microsoft and the MVPs are putting on, May 14th & 15th called the Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference.   Join Microsoft MVPs from the Americas’ region as they share their knowledge and real-world expertise during a free event, the MVP Virtual Conference. The MVP Virtual...Read More

Last week, Microsoft did a pretty big announcement that will probably impact all organizations around the globe. Starting July 1st, the on-premise User CAL pricing will increase 15%. With this move, Microsoft further delivers its message of “Mobile First, Cloud First”, by encouraging companies of going with the cloud licensing options (Office 365 Enterprise, Enterprise...Read More

Hello Canadian SharePointers, KWizCom, a Canadian company that has been very active in the SharePoint Community in the past few years by sponsoring bloggers and various SharePoint Saturday events just shared one of the coolest promotions I have seen in a while in the Tech Space. During the whole month of February, KWizCom would like...Read More

With the year almost over, I always take some time and look back what where the most popular posts of the year in order to see what SharePoint users all over the world are interested in reading. Without further talking, here are the top 10 Blog Posts on my blog on 2014. 1 – SharePoint...Read More

After founding the amazing SherePoint-Community.net online community I had the pleasure to meet a ton of great people online, people to which I talk almost every day on the SPCOM Chat!  However, I did not have the pleasure to meet most of the 5000 members in person yet and it’s one of my 2014 resolutions...Read More

When Trying to Queue a new Build Definition, You might get this error: TFS215106: Access denied. Domain\User needs Delete build definition permissions for the build definition MybuildDefintion in team project MyTeamProject to perform this action. You might get this even if you are a Project Administrator or have all the other rights in TFS because...Read More

I recently had a problem where suddenly TFS stopped sending emails and alerts. Furthermore, there was a permission bug with all new projects: The permissions were working perfectly in the SharePoint Site, however no one had the permissions in TFS Web Access. The problem was that the Visual Studio Team Foundation Background Job Agent service...Read More

When deploying a .Net Application to IIS using TFS Build Server and MSBuild, you might get the following error: C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets (2850): The “IsCleanMSDeployPackageNeeded” task failed unexpectedly. System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.    at Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.Common.Utility.CheckMSDeploymentVersion()    at Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.Common.Utility.get_IsMSDeployInstalled() This can simply be because you have not installed Web Deploy 2.0 on...Read More