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 [...]
Found on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog:
During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed. The activation of the expiration date will not affect the normal function of SharePoint up until the expiration date [...]
Found on the site Nintex Conntect.
We have identified compatibility issues between Nintex Workflow 2007 and SharePoint Service Pack 2. We are currently investigating the causes and expect to have a compatible release available shortly. If at all possible, we recommend refraining from installing SP2 at this point to avoid the problem.
Please be aware that workflow [...]
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Do you also sometimes receive errors like the ones below when installing SharePoint 2007. Well read on.
As you can see below, in IIS ASP.NET 2.0 is not registered but it is installed (see Add/Remove Programs)
Solve this by registering ASP.NET with IIS. Follow these steps:
Quit Internet Information Services Manager.
Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then [...]
For some time now I thought I was the only one with this problem. Well, not exactly me but the client of which I updated the SharePoint farm to Infrastructure Update. In the picture libraries on the sites complete views seemed to have disappeared or not working correctly any more.
It was a problem until I [...]
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Today I encountered some strange behaviour with a SharePoint site. I wanted to add some custom web parts to a site but received a strange error. (see below)
I don’t know at the moment how to solve this but a work around is, you can guess, check out the page first. It worked but what caused [...]
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Sometimes I’m working on SharePoint sites I end up with some masterpages I don’t need anymore and want to delete these pages. Recently I also tried to delete a master page file from the “Master Page and Page Layout Gallery” in SharePoint 2007 and got the following error message: ”This item cannot be deleted because it is still [...]
Researchers have uncovered yet another flaw in Microsoft’s Windows 7 beta that could allow attackers to gain full administrative privileges by bypassing the operating system’s UAC, or user access control.
Read more at source.
At a customer site we receive errors when users are trying to create my sites. The following error appears: “There has been an error creating the personal site. Contact your site administrator for more information.”
Finally I found a hotfix which would certainly solve this issue. This hotfix can be found in kb937207. There are no prerequisites in [...]
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Today I received a call from a customer who wanted to copy a document from a meeting workspace to another meeting workspace. All the time he received the error “meeting workspace does not support this action”.
I found some strange behaviour about meeting workspaces on the internet:
1. “copy to” (pull down menu on document) of a document [...]
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