Monday, April 19, 2010

Twitter webpart for SharePoint 2010

I've been working on a couple of social solutions for SharePoint 2010. One of the solutions was a Twitter webpart that will search for tweets based on a keyword, or a user.
The following properties can be customized:

  • Display poster profile image
  • Tweets limit
  • Search by a user and/or words
  • Refresh intervals (60 sec default)

The webpart will refresh on a set interval to load more tweets automatically.
It is also possible to tag the tweets with keywords from SharePoint taxonomy.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM!

Today SharePoint 2010 RTM was released. This is an exciting milestone for Microsoft. Volume License customers will be able to download SharePoint on the 27th of April if they have an active SA. Customers who do not have the SA will be able to download it on 1st of May.

For more information, check the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

Friday, April 9, 2010

Activity Feed being empty with Claims Enabled Web Applications

I was having trouble aggregating my colleagues' activities into my news feed page. After searching for a solution on the internet, found out that i needed to do two things


  • Add colleagues 
  • Enable the "User - Activity Feed Job" because it was disabled for some reason.

Then when i went to the "My newsfeed" page, i found no feeds still. I didn't get the feeds in my "recent activities" either. After some investigations i found out that the "All Authenticated" users for the Claims provider that the Web Application is using must be added to have read permissions on the social data. You can do this by going to the User Profile Management page and then going to the "Manage User Permissions" page.

After doing this, and then re-running the job. The feeds appeared :)