Right, after an extremely frustrating day trying to get my head around XSL – something I never want to repeat again – I am near to having completing a re-hashed template of the Room and Equipment Reservations template originally provided by Microsoft for SharePoint 2007. Following the post by Samantha – http://blogs.technet.com/b/tothesharepoint/archive/2010/08/18/sharepoint-2010-products-upgrade-and-the-fabulous-40-application-templates.aspx – which explains that
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SharePoint Search – Access Denied
Having a bit of a SharePoint day. Had recently noticed that no People were being returned in search results, even if you type in their name exactly. Went through the check list of possible causes: Default Content Access account permissions to the User Profile Service (Read Profiles for Search Crawler) Full Read permissions on the
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SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization
Just found two guides, which between them have saved our SharePoint farm from the scrapheap. The first – and most important for this: http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx A great resource – detailed, and very nearly worked. However, because we were not starting with a fresh install, as it suggests, I am guessing there were some remnants left over
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Exchange 2007 SP3: Exchange Server Setup encountered and Error.
Not the most useful error message that you will ever see. Combine this with a lack of information in the Exchange Setup Log and in the Event Viewer you have a small mystery. However, the answer is probably really simple: Check you have met the pre-requisites for the setup to run. Member of Enterprise Administrators
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Specified Port is Unknown error when adding Network Printers
Just finished investigating and resolving an error whereby the message ‘Specified Port is Unknown’ appears when adding a network printer. This was first noticed when running a login script that add’s printers didn’t actually add any printers. To fix this problem, you need to delete references to the printer drivers in the registry. I had
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Installing SharePoint 2010 on a DC
A disclaimer fist: I am in no way advocating the installation of SharePoint 2010 on a DC in a production environment. This information should only be used to set up SharePoint in a lab environment. Microsoft do not support the installation of SQL Server on a DC, which is why the Standalone option is not
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My Profile in My Site – Error 404 File Not Found (SharePoint 2007)
Just doing some pre-upgrade checks on SharePoint 2007. Want to make sure that everything is working as it is before upgrading. As part of this I went to edit my profile on my personal site. Whenever I did though, I got an error message stating 404 File Not Found. Symptoms are described exactly in this
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Exchange 2010: No In-Place Upgrade
Really disappointed to have just found out that an in-place upgrade is not available when migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2010. Totally understand why this is the case though. Database schema changes and the lack of storage groups in 2010 being the root cause. Not great news for the smaller places which probably haven’t got
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Windows 2008 R2 RDS: Print Spooler Stops
We have two servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services. On both servers the Print Spooler service kept randomly stopping. In the Application event log, we noticed this error keep appearing: Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Exception code: 0xc0000374 After trying to
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Login Script Not Running Windows 2008 Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)
Call today: User has not got any network drives when logging on to the thin clients. The setup for this is as follows: 2 x Windows Server 2008 R2 servers running RDS, DNS round robin, load balanced. 56 x ThinStation 2.2.2 clients A VBS login script is applied using Group Policy. All student users have
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