MarC on June 25th, 2009

On twitter and the site of Stefan Gossner I found the links to the hotfix for Service Pack 2 “bug”.

32-bit version: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/F/5/2F51AB71-1325-49D2-9CB9-18DEC4780E99/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x86-glb.exe
64-bit version: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/B/B/5BBD34A9-C528-42B0-8A5F-9A8997B25C32/office2007-kb971620-fullfile-x64-glb.exe

Read more at the source.

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MarC on June 25th, 2009

Joel Oleson wrote a very extensive and good article about the upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to 2010. Not only the article is interesting because the upgrade is discussed but also for the lists of all the features in SharePoint for example.
Read more at the source.

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MarC on June 23rd, 2009

In this post I talked about user roles in browser-based forms. I’ve found a very extensive post on Clayton’s blog (here) about another way of using user roles in forms. Check it out, it is very good.
Also on the subject of webservice he has some interesting posts.

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MarC on June 23rd, 2009

Planned 2 more exams today to complete my MCITP Enterprise Administrator certificate. 13th of July 070-620 Vista Configuring (unfortunately no Windows 7) and 27th of July 070-647 PRO Windows Server 2008.
I’ll keep you informed.

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MarC on June 23rd, 2009

Recently I was troubleshooting a SharePoint farm of a customer. The crawl of the content sources did not work and always ended with a “access denied” error in the crawl log. In the eventlog event ID 2436 appeared: “Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add [...]

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MarC on June 19th, 2009

Something I am looking for for quite some time is setting permissions in Infopath forms (browser based). For example, I am building a kind of timesheet form in which several fields might not be accessible by the users but only someone from the financial services department.
I tried several things until I found this blogpost at [...]

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Very interesting article at Ian’s blog about some issues with SSRS 2008 and SharePoint.
When installing, think about:

Integrated mode only works for SharePoint Web Applications on the Default Zone
Integrated mode will not work on a Web Application that has Anonymous access enabled

Read more about SSRS 2008 installation at the source.

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MarC on June 15th, 2009

At a customer SharePoint farm there was a “strange” situation. When clicking the My Site link on the top right of the portal home page there appeared a 404 error page. It seemed that the root site of the My Site collection had disappeared. The only thing I heard was that a administrator had tried [...]

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MarC on June 10th, 2009

At the moment I’m researching cookie expiration in combination with FBA at a clients SharePoint farm. Cookie expiration is set to one (1) day at that is not acceptable. In my search on the internet for information about this, I stumbled upon a MSDN article about FBA and though it is not relevant for the [...]

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In a Infopath form I was building I wanted to get the Manager name of the person who opens the form but also the Email address of that manager, for later use in a Nintex Workflow. In the comments of Itak Shakury’s post I found the necessary info.
First I retrieve the User information I need [...]

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