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How to Create Custom Web Services in Sharepoint 2007

Mostafa Arafa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:47:45 GMT

Mostafa Arafa writes, "If you want to build your own custom Web services that will be hosted in a sharepoint instance, here is the complete walkthrough that you need to folow:.." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:47:45 GMT

Code Sample Viewing Access Table Definitions

Richard Siddaway — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:46:13 GMT

Richard Siddaway writes, "...how do we investigate the structure of the database. The first thing we need to know is the tables in our database...In this case we are using ADO (the older brother of ADO.NET). We need to create a COM object for the connection and open it using the path to our database. This will fail if..." more

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:46:13 GMT

Determining How Many SharePoint Site Collections You Need

Mauro Cardarelli — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:43:27 GMT

Mauro Cardarelli writes, "When I lead a design session and we talk about site collections I lay out for discussion the items listed below. In the case of an intranet design, I always start with two site collections...walk participants through the technical and tactical decision points, and challenge the default design until we get to a comfortable place...for example..." more

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:43:27 GMT

Clarifying OS Requirements to run SharePoint 2010

Richard Riley — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:42:56 GMT

Richard Riley writes, "We've seen some confusion in the newsgroups and elsewhere on the versions and editions of Windows that SharePoint 2010 will run on. This post is meant to clarify some of the most common questions we have seen...SharePoint is not supported on..." more

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:42:56 GMT

Workaround Creating TFS Work Items Based On SharePoint Build Outcome

Adam Buenz — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:53:28 GMT

Adam Buenz writes, "...one problem that bubbled up was that the previously employed build manager had attempted to put together some code to have a build based on compilation success/failure of his SharePoint projects to generate work items...this problem implies that there wasn't some of the required foundation laid down before the aforementioned code was integrated..." more

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:53:28 GMT

Code Showing Using TestResultsRoot Property Correctly in SharePoint Builds

Adam Buenz — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:24:44 GMT

Adam Buenz writes, "...A common mistake that is made is when copying a SharePoint assembly to the output folder of a Unit Test during a custom Build that property will appear invalid. The solution for this is fairly straightforward, because 9 times out of 10 it comes down to the property being accessed out of the build scope. To correct it..." more

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:24:44 GMT

How to Remove Corrupted Sites Before SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

Joel Oleson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:40:51 GMT

Joel Oleson writes, "...with SharePoint being split across multiple databases, it is quite possible that a site could be in either the content database OR the config database. With service pack 2 there’s a new way to find orphaned sites. In addition to running STSADM..." more

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:40:51 GMT

New OLEDB Driver for Reading Excel 2007 Makes a Big Difference

Curtis Koppang — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:45:44 GMT

Curtis Koppang writes, "I work for a financial company that uses alot of Excel. Many of the the business users here practically live in it. So we are constantly trying to figure out how to leverage Excel in our applications...One of our technical frustrations has been the OLEDB driver for reading Excel on the server was fairly lame...I found this updated Provider for Excel 2007..." more

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:45:44 GMT

Installing Office 2010 x64 with OC and LiveMeeting Add-in

Dennis Lundtoft Thomsen — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:31:09 GMT

Dennis Lundtoft Thomsen writes, "...Before upgrading do remember that there is a problem with file uploading in LiveMeeting – only supported file format is native PowerPoint files. Also remember the workaround to make updating OC running 64 bit OS work correctly..." more

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:31:09 GMT

Watch Out for SharePoint Designer Server Error: "There is no Web Named"

Peter De Tender — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:57:02 GMT

Peter De Tender writes, "...We experienced this issue with one directory, while all the others worked just fine. The strange part was that I was able to open the subdirectories of the failing directory. With this in mind, I made a new directory and began copying separate files to the new folder. After a few files..." more

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:57:02 GMT

Checklist to Build out SharePoint SQL Server

Joe Oleson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:59:43 GMT

Joe Oleson writes, "...These questions apply to both SharePoint 2003, 2007, and 2010. I see this as a set of questions rather than a magical formula that could be added into a spreadsheet. Determining whether these servers are reallocated existing, virtual or physical is another conversation...." more

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:59:43 GMT

Excel Workbook Statistics Add-In - Free Tool

Excel Team Blog — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:43:05 GMT

Excel Team Blog writes, "...it is helpful to report statistics about a set of workbooks contained in a folder. You can use this add-in to create such a report. The report it provides includes the following statistics...also displays a dependency diagram that is generated by the add-in to document all worksheet relationships it discovers and to highlight links to workbooks in other folders...." more

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:43:05 GMT

Don't Get Caught With Long SharePoint Account Names

Shawn Cicoria — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:21:54 GMT

Shawn Cicoria writes, "...This has bitten me a couple of times. This error surfaced yesterday when running a scripted install with psconfig.exe – the error that appears in the log is:...The thing is, when you setup an account in AD, it will truncate the “samAccountName” attribute for the user object based upon the Distinguished Name of the account. So, it usually chops off the end of the string..." more

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:21:54 GMT

Sakila ADF for SharePoint's BDC

Ricardo Loo Foronda — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:56:27 GMT

Ricardo Loo Foronda writes, "...I managed to find some time to connect MySQL’s Sakila DB to SharePoint via BDC. I used an ODBC connection by the way. There are four entities...Here are the contents of the file:..." more

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:56:27 GMT

Fix for SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization Error

Nathan Lasnoski — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:03:08 GMT

Nathan Lasnoski writes, "I came across an error when configuring the SharePoint User Profile Synchronization within SharePoint 2010...I found that this is an issue with installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and is fixed by the following hotfix..." more

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:03:08 GMT

Installation Fix for System Center and SharePoint Capacity Planner on Win7 and Win2008 R2

Maxime Bombardier — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:02:20 GMT

Maxime Bombardier writes, "...I looked internally to find related problems and if we had a fix but couldn’t find anything substantial. The solution turned out to be the simplest one...when looking closer at the MSI..." more

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:02:20 GMT

Upload from File Server to SharePoint with File Classification Infrastructure

Jose Barreto — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:18:56 GMT

Jose Barreto writes, "...how to use the FCI SharePoint Upload PowerShell script in conjunction with the FCI File Management Tasks to automatically upload files from a File Server (running Windows Server 2008 R2) to SharePoint (both SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010 Beta) based on a specific condition..." more

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:18:56 GMT

SharePoint 2010 Development Target Platform Tip

Joris Poelmans — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:12:50 GMT

Joris Poelmans writes, "...SharePoint 2010 only support 64-bit OS so your apps should do the same. So if you don't change it you will see some strange errors – even something as simple as creating a new SPSite object will throw an error stating:" more

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:12:50 GMT

Solution to Excel 2010 x64 Compile Error

Helmers Blog — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:01:46 GMT

Helmers Blog writes, "Just opened a Excel Sheet (Created with Excel 2003) in my 64-bit version of Excel 2010 (beta) and received the following error : Compile Error : The code in this project must...the solution...added the PtrSafe attribute to the..." more

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:01:46 GMT

Tip Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7

Mostafa Elzoghbi — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:54:35 GMT

Mostafa Elzoghbi writes, "...even if you follow the steps, and run the SharePoint Configuration wizard, the wizard might... failed , what you have to do is just to re-run it and it is going to work. the problem..." more

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:54:35 GMT