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…
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…
Working with the PowerShell command for Set-SPManagedAccount this morning I found that the TechNet bulletin for this command has an inaccuracy with regard to password changes. When trying to reset a password from PowerShell I followed the syntax and used: Set-SPManagedAccount –Identity domainaccount –AutoGeneratePassword true I got the following error: Set-SPManagedAccount : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument ‘true’. At line:1 char:21 + Set-SPManagedAccount <<<< -Identity domainaccount -AutoGeneratePassword true + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Set-SPManagedAccount], ParameterBindingException…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
In an effort to make life simpler I have compiled a short list of useful link to build numbers and patching sites for SharePoint 2010 and SQL 2008 R2. The Microsoft SharePoint Updates PagesSharePoint 2010 – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff800847.aspx SharePoint 2007- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx This is your official sites for downloading the SharePoint updates from Microsoft. Highly useful rather than waiting on the blogger community to send you a link, or get the TechNet bulletin, your carrier pigeon to arrive, or any of the…
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…
Firstly, can I make this blog post’s title any longer? Yes, I didn’t include that I am doing this for SharePoint 2010, so thanks for the smart-alecked thoughts subconscious! Scenario: Using VMware vSphere 4.0 server to host Windows 2008 R2 64bit Servers which host SharePoint 2010 Server and looking to use Microsoft’s NLB. Set up NLB in mulitcast mode as recommended by everyone in the blogosphere and some different Microsoft articles and viola! It works… until 5 minutes after implementation…