Today a client indicated to me that in the c:\users directory on the SharePoint server a lot of directories where created, every day again. Eventually I came to setting permissions to the User Profile Service Application in the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration. Let me explain what has happened and what the solution is:
First I saw [...]
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This is a post without a solution (yet). I’m always having some kind of trouble with installing this SharePoint 2007 service.
I use these settings:
The description with this service states that: To use the Directory Management Service you need to provide the SharePoint Central Administration application pool account with write access to the container you specify [...]
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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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In this post I talked about user roles in browser-based forms. I’ve found a very extensive post on Clayton’s blog (here) about another way of using user roles in forms. Check it out, it is very good.
Also on the subject of webservice he has some interesting posts.
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Something I am looking for for quite some time is setting permissions in Infopath forms (browser based). For example, I am building a kind of timesheet form in which several fields might not be accessible by the users but only someone from the financial services department.
I tried several things until I found this blogpost at [...]



