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IE7 / IE8 Security Changes – Shared Authentication (Solution Included)

[Solution below] I have just discovered that , unlike IE7, in IE8 (and IE7 with the latest updates, I believe – thanks to Peter England for the comment) when you open a new browser it shares its authentication information with other opened instances. ...

Published 05-14-2009 11:22 PM by georgebonney

Error 401 connecting to local IIS website after 3 credential prompts

Microsoft have just released a bunch of security fixes for IE in an update – 963027 – which stops you being able to connect to local websites on your server. You will be prompted to enter a username and password but will receive the standard 401...

Published 04-16-2009 3:36 AM by georgebonney

SharePoint - Access Denied When Enabling The Publishing Infrastructure Site Collection Feature

Cause: The application pool account does not have rights to create / update timer jobs which is required when enabling the Publishing Infrastructure feature. Resolution: There are two options: 1) Temporarily add the application pool account to...

Published 03-24-2009 7:58 PM by georgebonney

Resolved - SharePoint Profile Sync Problems

I have just resolved a very annoying profile sync problem, although the solution is not 100% clear: Issue: Data in users’ profiles was not syncing into a Site Collection from the profile database. Other Site Collections in the same Content...

Published 03-17-2009 2:34 AM by georgebonney

SharePoint Layouts Page - Exception Message: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: g

Having just wasted over an hour, I felt it worth sharing my resolution to this gem of an error. Typically, the error is quite generic, but in my case, the problem was caused by including SharePoint controls that relied upon particular querystring entries...

Published 07-22-2008 5:19 PM by georgebonney

SharePoint - Field StaticName length

I have just discovered that it is critical that you keep the length of StaticName values for Fields to 32 or under… anything after this is cropped and the resultant value becomes the InternalName. This means that if you try and call methods like...

Published 06-25-2008 3:05 PM by georgebonney

If you ever forget your connection string syntax, look no further ....

http://www.connectionstrings.com This site seems to have to have all of them... top site!

Published 04-29-2008 12:48 PM by georgebonney

SPUtility.SendEmail - headers

The SendEmail function is obviously very useful but there is no documentation that describes what the parameters are for the message headers. Here they are, all very obvious: "to" "cc" "bcc" "subject" "from"...

Published 04-02-2008 6:49 PM by georgebonney

Extra upload page Part 1 - The Basics

[UPDATE] I have embedded code in the page and hidden it as it's an eyesore :-) just view the source and search for "EXTRAUPLOADPAGECODE" Ok - by request, here's a very quick (limited time, sorry) rundown on adding...

Published 03-10-2008 8:16 PM by georgebonney

SharePoint Workflow Events

I want to run some code when a user completes an OTB workflow - e.g. approval - and the only way I have found to do this is to use an event receiver on the task list and work back from there. I think there may be a more elegant solution for this but with...

Published 02-25-2008 4:47 PM by georgebonney

Fantastic Jazzy Bluesy Music - The Los Dawsons

If you're into a bit of smooth swingy jazzy bluesy music then check out The Los Dawsons ... http://thelosdawsons.blogspot.com/ There's 11 tracks available for you to enjoy through SplashCast ... all recorded as one-takes round-the-mic. CD available...

Published 02-25-2008 4:30 PM by georgebonney

Developer UK Launch – Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008

I shall be attending this launch event at the ICC in Birmingham, England - anyone else? http://www.microsoft.com/uk/heroeshappenhere/default.mspx http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032366502

Published 02-18-2008 5:38 PM by georgebonney

Adding Code To Every Page In SharePoint

If you want to add code to every page in SharePoint (well, almost, see below for details), you should create a Feature Control element with an ID of "AdditionalPageHead". The delegate control that this is declared for is in the default...

Published 02-16-2008 7:54 PM by georgebonney

WMI Provider Host on Windows Server 2008

I have recently built a Windows Server 2008 machine as a potential replacement for my Windows Server 2003 development machine, but one problem I have noticed is the CPU usage that "WmiPrvSE.exe" - "WMI Provider Host" causes. ...

Published 02-11-2008 6:09 PM by georgebonney

Installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008

This is a little more difficult than you might expect as the standard Office SharePoint Server 2007 installation is blocked by W2K8, with a pre-requisite for installing OSS 2007 being OSS 2007 SP1. To obtain this seemingly non-existent software...

Published 02-07-2008 9:31 PM by georgebonney

Failed to instantiate file "File.ext" from module "Modules": The specified list does not exist.

I have just assisted in resolving this problem which got me some time ago. If you are developing a feature with a module and receive this error, it is because your module path is a folder and you are setting the "Type" attribute to "GhostableInLibrary"...

Published 02-05-2008 9:42 PM by georgebonney

The URL '/_folder/subfolder' is invalid. It may refer to a nonexistent file or folder, or refer to a valid file or folder that is not in the current Web.

This error will occur when activating a feature containing a module if you prefix the "Url" attribute value of the "Module" element with a slash: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Elements xmlns="...

Published 02-05-2008 9:37 PM by georgebonney

Custom Field - Multi User Lookup

It appears that (once again) there is a shortfall in the WSS 3.0 SDK documentation. If you want to use a multi user lookup field then you have to (1) choose the field type "UserMulti" and (2) set the attribute "Mult" to "true"...

Published 02-02-2008 6:32 PM by georgebonney

Fields Not Appearing in List When Using Content Type

Issue: Fields not appearing when creating new items in a custom list containing a custom content type. Cause: The base type of the list was "0" - generic list. I had copy and pasted my new content type definition from a custom document...

Published 02-02-2008 6:10 PM by georgebonney

"Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object" when calling "BreakRoleInheritance" for an SPListItem

This error will occur if you have new list item in code that you haven't yet called the update method for. The BreakRoleInheritance method directly amends an item without the need for you to call update to set the changes. This means that the...

Published 01-29-2008 5:31 PM by georgebonney

Test Application Development - Do It!

Ok - short and sweet. I needed to do a search in AD - simple enough - but I wasn't sure where I'd have a code example for it and I haven't done it enough to write it off the top of my head. I checked in my "TestApplication"...

Published 01-28-2008 7:46 PM by georgebonney

IIS Reset Alternative - Application Pool Recycling

[UPDATED] ************************************************ For a fantastic system tray IIS Manager that provides, among other things, application pool recycling and IIS Reset with web application warm ups go here: www.harbar.net/.../APM.aspx If you require...

Published 01-22-2008 12:04 PM by georgebonney

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