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    Group By Totals, Page Navigation and Sort Only by Specified Criteria – bug?

    by  • February 25, 2011 • Fixes to problems, How To, SharePoint • 1 Comment

    When someone comes and tells me that SharePoint is behaving weird I’m not normally surprised. The way SharePoint works and it’s interface are not exactly intuitive but I can normally work out an explanation for the “weird” behaviour but not this time. The Problem I have a document library with 16 documents in it....

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    SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization Service unable to change account name

    by  • October 10, 2010 • Fixes to problems, How To, SharePoint, Software • 2 Comments

    Even though I thought I followed  the instructions in the fantastic Spencer Harbar Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization I went to start the User Profile Synchronization Service but the account name was dimmed/greyed out and I could not change it from the NETWORK SERVICE account! After lots of messing around...

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    Windows Server 2008 disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration

    by  • March 17, 2010 • How To • 1 Comment

    Having managed to resolve my Win2k8 0×8007232B activation error I wanted to download some software from CodePlex to my new SharePoint development server but the download link would not work as it kept getting blocked by IE8. In other versions of Windows you could remove the Enhanced Security through add/remove programs in the control panel but not on...

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