In the past this error could be solved by giving the mentioned accounts the “Local Launch” and “Local Activation” permissions to the IIS WAMREG admin service through Component Services.
On Windows Server 2008 R2 this is quite different. The property dialog is all disabled due to permission restrictions. It doesn’t matter if you are logged in [...]

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MarC on October 30th, 2009

Today I wanted to logon to the SharedServicesProvider (SSP) of one of our SharePoint servers (Windows Server 2008 R2 with SharePoint 2007 CU June 2009) but was unable to do so. In the eventlog there was an event ID 4625 “An account failed to logon”. The text of the event ID is below.
An account failed [...]

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MarC on October 30th, 2009

The server-packages of October 2009 Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are ready for download. October 2009 Cumulative Updates introduce more rules on Pre-Upgrade Checker, which can help customers to prepare the upgrade of their SharePoint farm to SharePoint 2010.
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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 October 2009 cumulative update [...]

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Because of the strict security on Windows Server 2008 it is no longer possible to just copy and paste the dll files to the GAC like we did with version 2.5. You have to do this with a tool called GACutil.exe. This tool can be found (when you have installed Visual Studio 8 ) in [...]

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MarC on October 27th, 2009

At the moment I’m trying to deploy the ConnectedLookup 2.0 solution from CodePlex (download it here) at a customer SharePoint farm. Recently I deployed this solution succesfully at several other farms but now I’m running into some problems. Maybe you can help.
I first tried to deploy with the setup.exe file and secondly with the addsolution and [...]

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MarC on October 26th, 2009

The list is a mix and match of what He considers the big announcements, he has tried to group these by what he considers investment areas that pay off and help justify both playing with the public beta and justify upgrading when you have the chance.
See his blogpost.

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MarC on October 20th, 2009

Nintex announced october 19th that Nintex Workflow 2010 will be shipping shortly after the launch of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Nintex is demonstrating a pre-release version of the software at this week’s Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas. 
Innovations the 2010 release of Nintex Workflow will offer include:

Full support for new workflow capabilities in the [...]

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MarC on October 19th, 2009

As Microsoft prepares to release Visual Studio 2010 for Windows 7, Office 2010 and a new line Windows servers about to come on tap, Microsoft is taking another stab. This time, the company is spicing the packaging mix by throwing in hours of access to its Azure cloud plus upgrades to a new, top-of-the-line Visual [...]

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MarC on October 12th, 2009

Below you will find part of the newsletter Nintex send to their partners.
Nintex Workflow 2007 v1.10 is now available for all language packs
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Nintex Workflow 2007, the award winning workflow designer for Microsoft SharePoint, now features new innovations and improvements in all language versions.
Nintex Workflow 2007 is now available in eleven languages including English, Czech, Dutch, [...]

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