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Speaking at SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast 2011 in San Antonio

Speaking at SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast 2011 in San Antonio

My friend, Cornelius J. van Dyk, and I will be presenting at this year’s SharePoint Connections Coast to Coast conference in San Antonio held May 23-25 at the Hyatt Regency Hill County Resort & Spa. We will be teaching the ITPro Pre-Conference “SharePoint Collaboration Bootcamp” plus presenting three sessions, “Heavy Metal PowerPivot”, “Time Is Money. How SharePoint Logging will Save You Both!”, and “Wish I’d Have Known That Sooner! SharePoint Insanity Demystified”. All 3 of these sessions promise to be fresh…

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SPFLogger–A whole new way to look at SharePoint 2010 Logs

SPFLogger–A whole new way to look at SharePoint 2010 Logs

One of the most amazing, and little talked about, features of SharePoint 2010 is its new logging database and the power that comes along with it.  About 4 months ago I noticed a gap in the market and started talking to 2 friends of mine, David Feldman and Cornelius J. van Dyk, making the statement “I think that this would make for a really neat winforms app.”  After some brain storming we decided to take the idea a different direction…

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Now powered by SharePoint Foundation 2010

Now powered by SharePoint Foundation 2010

Since my world is already mostly SharePoint 2010, I figured it was time to move my blog from Blogger, which has been a great starter experience, to something I am more familiar with, SharePoint Foundation 2010.  I am blessed with many friends who had offered me space on their servers rather than needing to stand up another on at my house to worry about, and I finally took one of them up on the offer. In the coming days you…

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SharePoint 2010 & Site Directory revisited: bug fix request rejected by Microsoft

SharePoint 2010 & Site Directory revisited: bug fix request rejected by Microsoft

We received the official, and well thought out, answer back from Microsoft regarding the Site Directory bug that I reported on with my post “SharePoint 2010 and the Site Directory” back in December 2010.   Here is the official answer from Microsoft: Issue Summary Site collection creation fails with access denied error when the master site directory site collection is located on a web application which is using the new claims aware authentication method. Cause for Rejection and Technical Explanation…

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SharePoint 2010’s Visio Graphics Services: EventIDs 8061 & 8046 unmasked

SharePoint 2010’s Visio Graphics Services: EventIDs 8061 & 8046 unmasked

Getting EventIDs 8061 & 8046 in your ULS Logs and Event Logs on your application server?  Having trouble figuring out exactly what they are trying to tell you?  Finding inconsistent results between site collections?  Let’s dive in… Here are the offending errors: TechNet tells us: quoting directly from the article linked here Symptoms:   One or more of the following symptoms might appear: A file or files might not load. This event appears in the event log: Event ID: 8061 Description:…

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The definitive BCS in SharePoint 2010 book now available

The definitive BCS in SharePoint 2010 book now available

My friend and colleague Scot Hillier has just published his new book with his co-author, Brad Stevenson, called “Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010”.  Scot brought me a copy today and from the brief bits that I have had an opportunity to read so far (plus what I was privilege to review prior to the printing), it far exceeds the expectations one might have for simply being THE BOOK (yes I know there is only one out there) on…

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How to: Fix the "Unable to access SharePoint sites from the localhost" problem

How to: Fix the "Unable to access SharePoint sites from the localhost" problem

Ever try to access a page on your SharePoint site from your web front end only to get prompted for a login that never lets you through? The issue happens when dealing with sites that Integrated Authentication and have names that are mapped to the loopback address.  Translation:  if you are using Windows with Claims or Classic Mode web applications  and you are trying to connect from the server, this is you. The LoopbackCheck security feature is enabled by default…

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Update: PowerPivot in Windows with Claims Authentication on SharePoint 2010 case

Update: PowerPivot in Windows with Claims Authentication on SharePoint 2010 case

We had a second great discussion with Lee Graber and Venky Veeraraghavan and our MS Account Team today.  They are actively working on getting a solution to allow PowerPivot to work with Windows Claims Authentication in SharePoint 2010, as I talked about in my previous post.  They are expecting to down select an approach, from 4 down to 1, by the end of the week and give us an update on what the timeline will look like.This has been a…

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All PowerPivot Features supported only in Classic Mode Authentication

All PowerPivot Features supported only in Classic Mode Authentication

Surprised?  I was this week as well.  I have had a case open with Microsoft since October that we have been playing with back and forth trying to figure out why automated refreshing of a PowerPivot workbook wasn’t working.We let the case go off and on for a quite a while because in the opening days we found that if we ran the PowerPivot Service Application Pool in the context of the farm admin account, that manually refreshing the data…

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How to: Get your Managed Account passwords when they are changed automatically by SharePoint 2010

How to: Get your Managed Account passwords when they are changed automatically by SharePoint 2010

Scenario: Using Managed Accounts the way that SharePoint 2010 is designed you allow SharePoint 2010 to manage your password changes automatically for you. Your farm gets into an inconsistent state, or you allow SharePoint 2010 to change your farm admin account and you realize that you cannot start the UPS without knowing the farm account password. What do you do? Resolution: Run the following PowerShell command from the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell as a Farm Administrator: function Bindings() { return…

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