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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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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Great article by Bamboo Solutions about installing WSS 3.0 SP 2 and MOSS 2007 SP 2 on Windows 7 RC.
Read more at the source
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The situation is that I created a demo portal with a lot of sites each with a document library. Some sites are location sites, others are department sites etc. The document library on the location sites each have a site column (metadata) with a prefilled value corresponding with the name of the site and the [...]
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After the installation of this solution, described in my previous post, I got an error in the eventlog:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category: Web Controls
Event ID: 7043
User: N/A
Description:
Load control template file /_controltemplates/ConnectedLookupFieldEditor.ascx failed: Could not load the assembly ‘ConnectedLookupField, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a646907c4a695009′. Make sure that it is compiled before accessing the page.
Resolve this by doing:
Open a windows [...]
Continue reading about SharePoint Connected Lookup with multiple childs (part 2)
I was looking for a solution to this, in my opinion, very difficult action. I’m no developer so that explains. It turned out to be very simple by doing this:
Go to the document’s view url, for example: http://example.com/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx.
If it is a web part page, edit the page and add a Content Editor web part. Otherwise [...]
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Today I did some consultancy work at a customer site. They had renamed the title site column at the root level in the item content type. They were complaining that it appeared everywhere on all sites and in all lists. I changed the name with a tool called SharePoint Manager 2007. See screenshots below.
Open SPM2007, [...]
Today a customer asked me if it is possible to modify the SharePoint calendar in such a way that different colors represent different kind of events. Out of the box it does not but after some searching on the internet I found a solution made by Mark Wilson named Colour Calendar.
Because there is very little [...]
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In this post I wrote a step by step manual to upgrade the SharePoint license from Standard to Enterprise. Be aware of this requirement:
If you have installed Service Pack 2 be sure that you also have installed the Trial bugfix or the SP2 installation that includes this bugfix. Otherwise you will not be able to [...]
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