At a customer I was building a demo site to convince the management of the power of SharePoint 2010. The plan was to show some fancy stuff with Visio Graphics Services, Infopath Forms, workflows etc. For this we needed, obviously, the Enterprise license. So I opened CA, browsed to the Manage service applications part to [...]
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Unlike what I’m telling about myself on my About page (this is a no-code blog), I shall write more and more development orientated posts :-). I have tried to deploy a solution with CAS policies directly from Visual Studio 2010 to SharePoint with the new SharePoint Developer Tools.
The Deploy failed with the error “error occurred in [...]
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Errors in the System log
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 8/31/2011 11:53:35 AM
Event ID: 7031
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: <servername>
Description:
The SharePoint 2010 Timer service terminated unexpectedly.
It has done this 479 time(s). The following corrective action
will be taken in 30000 milliseconds: Restart the service.
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 8/31/2011 11:53:35 AM
Event ID: 7024
Task Category: None
Level: [...]
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In my previous post I indicated that the VirtualDirectory Path of the SharePoint Central Administration Web Application in a configuration file was incorrect. I have found the source of this error.
Before I started the SP2010 installation I decided to move the inetpub directory to another drive. I searched for this on the internet and found a [...]
First, let me begin with the error that started the idea for this blog post. After running the Configuration Wizard of SharePoint 2010 on a Windows 2008 SP2 server the following error appeared when the Central Admin participate dialog should have appeared:
Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The [...]
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Three of my colleagues who also took the exam already got email messages this weekend congratulating them. I did not receive any…bummer, I thought. But checking the Certiport and MCP sites showed me that I also passed.
Information on my MCP member site:
On my Certiport member site:
In my search for a PowerShell warmup script for a SP2010 farm I found two blogs with scripts. I did not have the opportunity yet to change the scripts to my liking but I did not want to wait blogging this. So here they are:
This script uses stsadm to hit the pages. All credits to [...]
An hour ago I have finished the beta exam 77-886 MOS SharePoint 2010. It was not that hard. I got all 87 questions. There were a lot of simulation questions and a few multiple choice.
Mainly the questions were about managing lists and libraries, web parts, my site, search and also parts of central administration.
Here you can find [...]
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I first read about the beta exam at this Born to Learn blogpost.
The Microsoft Learning site concerning this exam can be found here.
All Certiport Test Centers for the SharePoint beta exam are in this PDF document. More details can be asked at the Certiport beta coordinator (betacoordinator (at) certiport.com).
Please come back later. I shall update [...]
========= UPDATE =========
Centric NL mailed me back that taking the test in their Diemen based test center is possible. But with JSR (www.jsr.nl) I made an appointment that I will take the test in their test center in Zoetermeer. Probably next monday, May 23.
Certiport also indicated that Compu’train is able to host the exam in [...]
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