If you have been installing SharePoint you have probably also seen and fixed the DCOM 10016 error. This error occurs in the event log when the SharePoint service accounts doesn’t have the necessary permissions (Local Activation to the IIS WAMREG admin service).
On a Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 machine you would just fire [...]
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First of all I want to thank Jaap Vossers (twitter: @jvossers) for putting a great jQuery script and solution on CodePlex for this. More info on CodePlex
My client wanted a more advanced kind of column filter for a SharePoint list. They have a assets library with a lot of items in it and they did [...]
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When I was looking on the internet for some info about User Profile import in SharePoint 2007 I found the blogpost of Duarte Nobrega about LDAP User Filters. Some examples of the filters are:
Default user filter:
(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User))
Exclude accounts with no email address:
(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))(mail=*))
Exclude disabled accounts:
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))
Read more at the source.
I was looking for some info about SharePoint item limits but stumbled upon a post about changing the size limit of site template. I always thought why it is only 10 MB. In the past there were several situations where I could do with more.
In this post on Mike Gannotti’s blog there is a post [...]
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At a client SharePoint 2007 farm, installed on Windows Server 2008 servers, I had to install SQL Server Reporting Services Add in for Sharepoint. I already know that one has to install with elevated privileges at 2008 but this installation required some specific steps to complete.
At first I tried this installation:
Open a command prompt with [...]
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This CodePlex project creates a custom SharePoint lookup field that offers new functionalities to default SharePoint lookup field by allowing filters to be applied to retrieved data. Applied filters can be either dynamic CAML queries or pre-defined list views residing in source lists
Below is a few of the features offered by Filtered Lookup field over [...]
Opening a Infopath 2007 browser based form through a link in i.e. a links webpart is done by first opening the form manually, copying the complete URL, extracting the “&Source…” part from the URL and using the URL as a hyperlink. See example below:
I have a form which opens with this complete URL:
http://intranet/eforms/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=http://intranet/FormServerTemplates/DeclCashSal.xsn&SaveLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1
After I extract [...]
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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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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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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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