Upgraded to Outlook 2010 a while back and was interested in the Social Connector but for some reason whenever I opened the People Pane I always got a message displayed “No Items to show in this view” rather than the email threads etc that everyone else saw. Well, yesterday I took a 10 minute...
Read more →Having created a view in SharePoint 2010 I now wanted to modify the way the groupings were displayed. Opening the view in SharePoint 2010 I could see a ribbon option labeled Customize XSLT which enabled me to edit the way that the view was displayed by editing the XSL and in SharePoint Designer 2010...
Read more →Whilst trying to debug a Feature Receiver in Visual Studio 2010 I kept receiving the standard application error suggesting that if I wanted to view the details of the error that I set the customErrors to Off. That’s odd I thought I had already done that and a visit to the web.config in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →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...
Read more →When I went to activate a new install of Windows Server 2008 R2 I received an error 0x8007232B. I install Win2k8 on a fairly regular basis and knew I had come across this error before but some of the Google results started talking about Vista and MAK keys and volume license agreements and I...
Read more →Windows Vista VPN Error When I try to connect to VPN on my Vista PC I click on “Connect To” and the VPN connection has a cross next to it and an error that reads “This connection requires an active Internet Connection”. For ages I have just been using a workaround that involves...
Read more →** WARNING ** I noticed today (7th July 2009) that the jZip installer seems to have changed and it is easy to get extra items such as the Yahoo toolbar installed and your web browser default page changed when you might not want it be. I still consider the application to be good but...
Read more →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...
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