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

When you’re deploying your Web Application from TFS to an IIS Web Application you might encounter the error Web deployment task failed. (Site http: does not exist.) If you got this error, it’s probably because in TFS you set the”/p:DeployIISAppPath” to the URL of a website, for example /p:DeployIISAppPath=”http://vlad.domain.com” . The correct way to specify...Read More

Community Blast Provided and Sponsored by Vyapin. This information was provided by vendor for community education on product. No official review was performed by Vlad Catrinescu. Most SharePoint implementations have outgrown the original purpose for which they were designed – what was envisioned as a simple solution has now become a complex environment because of...Read More

The news that was on all the tech sites last Friday was good news for some and bad for others… Steve Ballmer is retiring sometimes in 2014. Here are some of his best moments to light up your Monday: 1. The most known one :  Developers! 2. Steve Ballmer entering the stage 3. Steve Ballmer...Read More

Recently I read a great article by Wendy Neal called 10 Ways to Make a Splash in the SharePoint Community, in which she explains some steps that you can take to become more popular in the community. The Article is really great, and I agree with everything she says, however I would like to elaborate...Read More

Hello Everyone, I just wanted to inform you that I will be migrating my blog to WordPress this Saturday,  May 4th.  There will be some downtime, but hopefully it won’t be too long!

You might be wondering why I haven’t posted much technical stuff lately, truth is I have been busy with work and my other Community site. As many of you know I co-founded the SharePoint-Community.Net with a few other SharePoint people. One of the fellow founders who I have got to know very well is Mark Jones....Read More

There are a couple of interesting events this week that you might enjoy. I know this is posted on a really short note and it might be over by the time you see this post, however if I download links to the presentations   I will update the post afterwards! 18 Dec Save 50% –...Read More

Hello This post is not related to SharePoint, however I did not find it anywhere else so I thought it was good to post it. I just updated my main laptop to Windows Server 2012 and when I installed Office 2010, I got the Outlook error –  ” Windows Desktop Search is not available”. In Server 2008R2...Read More