January 2012
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Restoring Site Collections in WSS 3.0
One of my clients recently needed help with restoring a WSS 3.0 site collection to a separate content database in order to migrate it (via detach-attach method) to a new SP Foundation environment. This obviously could be achieved by splitting the content database if the site collection already exists in one. However, if you are trying to work with a site collection that has been previously backed...
November 2010
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Term Store Manager cannot find MMS
Deployed SharePoint 2010 using least privileged method? If you created a Managed Metadata Service Application and try to access the Term Store Management Tool you might run into the following error.
Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or Managed Metadata Web Service may not have been started. Please Contact Your Administrator.
You will...
May 2010
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Binding Properties in Workflow Templates with...
If you are using STSDEV to create your workflow templates, I bet you’ve run into errors (Most common being “Could not resolve field type”) when executing workflows that reference the workflowProperties object. Turns out that STSDEV does not bind the workflowProperties object to the SPWorkflowActivitationProperties object during activation.
In order to resolve this problem,...
April 2010
2 posts
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Office Server 2010 RTM Downloads
SharePoint 2010 RTM English bits went live last week (official launch on May 12). Though it will only be available for general use somewhere in June, you can try out SharePoint Foundation (previously WSS) and SharePoint Server using the links below.
SharePoint Server 2010 (Requires MSDN subsription).
SharePoint Foundation 2010 (x64 | Free)
SharePoint Designer 2010 (Free) - x64 | x32
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Application Server Errors
I recently went through the event log on one of my dev servers running 2008 R2 and realized that the Application Server has been quite active in logging errors about not being able to start the following services.
NetTcpPortSharing
NetTcpActivator
NetPipeActivator
NetTMsmqActivator
The errors were along the lines of what’s shown below.
Error: Installation of [Application Server] TCP...
March 2010
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VSeWSS Post-Installation Configuration
If you have tried to develop custom definitions/features for SharePoint in Visual Studio (using VSeWSS) and have run into one of the following errors, it’s most likely you have not completed the post-installation checklist.
The content type text/html; charset=utf-8 of the response message does not match the content type of the binding (text/xml; charset=utf-8).
This error is mainly due...
February 2010
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VS2010 RC and .NET 4.0
I upgraded Visual Studio 2010 from Beta to RC along with the .Net Framework 4.0 and oh my, I’m very impressed by the performance improvements. If you haven’t got it yet, here are the download links.
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Visual Studio 2010 Premium
Visual Studio 2010 Professional
Visual Studio 2010 SDK
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
.NET Framework 4
Happy...
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Tick your Tweets
Ever since I discovered jQuery (that’s a couple of years ago) my life has been a joy ride when it comes to developing web apps. So I figured it’s only fair that I start writing about it. I would like to start with one of my favorite plug-ins written by Mike Alsup called Cycle. Among it’s numerous functionalities, I’d like to simply point out it’s ability to tick your...
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A Few InfoPath Tips
Apart from working, watching college hoops and NFL games, I have no idea how time flies by so fast. Last week I was assigned to redo this “immoderate” InfoPath form that had no structure along with the lack of commendable functionality. This was my first InfoPath task, so though I’d share some nifty things I learned during the process.
1. ALWAYS create a well organized data...
January 2010
3 posts
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SQL Management Studio R2 CTP
Had a hard time trying to find a download link to Management Studio (not express), so thought I’d just post them to help anyone else and myself in the future.
SSMS 32-bit: http://blogs.msdn.com/ssds/archive/2009/11/11/9921041.aspx
SSMS 64-bit: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=168735&clcid=0x409
SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP:...
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DB Error while Deploying Cube
Have been trying to deploy this OLAP cube to Analysis Services using the Business Intelligence Development Studio. However, I ran into the following error multiple times.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘SSAS_SVC_ACCOUNT’.; 28000.
Turns out that if you are using the Analysis Services service account to access the Data Warehouse (and deploy the cube), you...
Into 2010.. A New Decade
Happy New Year Folks!! The long absence came from a combination of work overload, health download and the holiday pre/post-load period. let’s not get into details. it’s better that way.
Ushering 2010 also gave me the opportunity to deploy SharePoint 2010 and play around with some of the feature in the some-what buggy beta release. However, it looks and feels much better than MOSS...
November 2009
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Working with 2010 Betas
With the recent release of Microsoft 2010 Betas it’s been quite the talk about making the leap to the 64-bit world. For SharePoint folks it’s also a question of compatibility. As of now, SharePoint 2010 Beta requires 64-bit SQL Server and either Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7. If you are running R2, then you are out of luck as Microsoft has not yet released a hotfix. Also, not to...
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Service Accounts in MOSS 2007
SharePoint Newbie Issue #2
Deployed SharePoint Server 2007 on two different boxes running on farm environments and ran into permission issues. One was involving domain controllers and the other was thanks to “the always buggy” IE. However, one important thing I’ve learned is planning your deployment well ahead. One of the prime issues in the planning should be service accounts.
...
WebDav Extensions in Server 2008
SharePoint Newbie Issue #1
While running a few virtual machines with Windows Server 2008 I realized that I have been running into a few problems, especially with SharePoint and Office integration. If you are trying to create documents in any Office suite application or any other document for that matter which needs to be save in a SharePoint library and run into the following error,
Path does...
October 2009
9 posts
Tweet in Lists
Twitter now allows creating Lists that allow tweeters to build their own timelines consisting selected groups of followers. Pretty sweet, specially when you want to have a twitcussion among a certain few. It’s currently on BETA testing, so If you don’t see it yet be patient. It will tweet your way through.
Looks like I’m getting more and more into tweaking than speaking. Oh,...
Goodbye Geocities! →
A long and memorable personal home page era comes to an end.. Thanks for the memories, Geocities. You will be missed!
Troubles of a Virgin Sharepoint Deployment
Being new to this whole Sharepoint world and not being a big fan of M$ products, it has been some what of a challenging task to get Sharepoint deployed and running. A basic setup for a development environment had no issues what so ever. However, getting it done for a MOSS farm with SQL Server 2008 on a 2008 RC Server running on VMWare is more like trying to get a bunch of monkeys to work...
Is Cloud Computing Ready?
So Twitter has been down for a while now. Facebook was throwing empty pages yesterday. Make’s one think how ready Cloud Computing really is. I know it’s been all over that Cloud applications are to encounter more frequent but less disruptive service outages, but what does this really mean? Saving a buck out of recovery or maintainence costs?
I’m by no means an expert in the...
Creative Comments →
I love to read comments on sites like @digg @youtube etc. People are very creative when it comes to expressing their thoughts.. like this one.. LOL!
Tried Google Wave Yet?
The majority of Google Wave previewers are having a hard time understanding the underlying concept of the application or platform. Here’s a great review by Lifehacker that takes you through it step-by-step. As they say, if you can distinguish between the uppercase “Wave” and the lowercase “wave”, you are good to go!
September 2009
4 posts
“Open Abstracts is now LIVE!! Will be working on the template and linking up to...”
Disable EDGE on iPhone 3G
This is a short write up on how to disable EDGE on your iPhone 3G OS 3.0. It will allow you to prevent your iPhone from using Cellular Network Data (and may be avoid excessive data charges if you don’t have a data plan or you are with a differen carrier such as T-Mobile, Verizon etc).
On Jailbroken iPhone 3G’s
This method will only work on jailbroken iPhones (look below if you have...
I tumbled myself!
So I have been giving some thought as to why I have turned out to be a passive blogger. Five years ago, blogging was my job, sort of. But now, even if I force myself, it’s like something too trivial to spend time on. Time; now that’s a blur!
For someone in a serious relationship with a laptop, what do I spend most of my time on? Ha… Social Networks!! It’s unbelievable how...
“And then I thought I had everything figured out, until I stumbled upon tumblr.”