SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization Service unable to change account name
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, How To, SharePoint, Software
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 I [...]
Tags: sharepoint 2007
The form has been closed / The specified form cannot be found – SharePoint 2007
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under Fixes to problems, SharePoint, Software Development
Having created my InfoPath 2007 Form, created my workflow in Visual Studio 2008 and clicked Deploy I found that my workflow went to In Progress but the Instantiation Form never displayed in SharePoint and all I got was a message “The form has been closed” on the screen. Looking in the log files I could [...]
Tags: infopath 2007, sharepoint 2007, visual studio 2008, workflow
European SharePoint Best Practices Conference
Posted by Dave Mellors | Filed under SharePoint
Joel described SharePoint as hot plastic where you need to plan your mold because once set making changes to SharePoint isn’t going to be easy and I think it is fair to use this for describing SharePoint Infrastructure (aaargh! the frustration!!!) but I don’t think it is a good description for SharePoint itself which I would consider to be far more flexible.
