I needed a quick and dirty way to go through the SPWebService.AdministrationService to get a collection SPWebService.WebApplications and then test whether the SPWebApplication is the Central Administration application. To do this you need to use the SPWebApplication.IsAdministrationWebApplication boolean property. To keep things succinct you can just chain a LINQ query to return the representative SPSite [...]

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In the first part of this series, I illustrated the initial building of the primary WebPart class and the workhorse method that taps into Active Directory using LINQ to Active Directory to retrieve the current user's department. Now, we have to use the returned department string to query down into a helper redirection SharePoint list [...]

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The real power of LINQ lies in the ambiguity to query collections of all Types, as long as they implement the IQueryable interface. Since Active Directory is essentially a collection of users, one should be able to use a LINQ-esque fashion to manipulate objects out of that particular store as well.
This is where LINQ to [...]

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The SPServer object is pretty useful when you are interrogating topological elements in your farm for different types of information. One of the thing that I test a lot when writing security / admin utilites for companies is the roles and stuff that are running on the box, the most is whether it is a [...]

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The ULS logs are pretty great, especially when you have pre-existing, non-development dependent errors occurring that make absolutely freakin no sense. It’s pretty easy to get the path using the SPDiagnosticsService object.
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C#:

public string ULSPath()

{

try

{

return SPDiagnosticsService.Local.LogLocation;

}

catch (SqlException sqlEx)

{

SPDiagCommonHelper.TraceException(sqlEx);

}

catch (SPException spEx)

{

SPDiagCommonHelper.TraceException(spEx);

}

return string.Empty;

}

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