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Workflow and SQL Error: Part 3

As you may remember from my earlier post and subsequent follow-up , we have been seeing an issue related to workflows and the Workflow History list in SharePoint 2007. As I've already mentioned, the case is with Microsoft and I also said that I would post updates as new information arrived. Today...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 08-28-2008
Why doesn't my ActionsPane appear when I create a new document form a VSTO enabled template?

When you are using a VSTO enabled Word Template inside a SharePoint custom content type you have to be careful which actual .DOTX file you use within the SharePoint custom content type. DO NOT - use the .DOTX from your VSTO Visual Studio project directory DO USE - the .DOTX from the the project's...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 08-11-2008
Moving the document store in TFS

I have at last got round to moving the location of the WSS sites used by our TFS server from the WSS instance running on our TFS Application Tier (AT) to our main 64bit MOSS 2007 server farm. A job I have been putting off for ages. I decided that there was nothing on the TFS WSS sites of importance,...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 08-07-2008
SharePoint Federated Search

One of the new features introduced with the recent SharePoint Infrastructure Update are the Enterprise Search Features that were shipped with Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express, that were not included in the original release of SharePoint 2007. This includes some Search core platform performance...

Posted to Andy Dawson's Blog (Weblog) by Andy Dawson on 08-01-2008
Unable to access My Tasks in Project Web Access

Sometime ago we noticed an issue with My Tasks in Project Server. Certain users were unable to access My Tasks at all - they simply got a SharePoint error page. A little jiggery-pokery with callstack and custom errors later, we saw that the error referenced a GUID for a task. I then searched the Project...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 08-01-2008
SharePoint Website Schematic

I find myself drawing the same diagram over and over again in meetings to explain how SharePoint sites relate to IIS web sites, how managed paths and alternate access mappings fit and why you need to extend the SharePoint web application if you want more than one authentication provider. After some of...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 08-01-2008
Site Policies and FBA in SharePoint: Update

My apologies to Craig, who posted a comment to my earlier post about our FBA problems and I didn't notice until today. To update you all on the situation, the fault is still with Microsoft and I have not yet received a hotfix. However, for anybody considering FBA in their deployment, I would not...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 07-30-2008
Workflow and SQL Error: Update

I posted last week about a couple of issues we were experiencing with SharePoint. I made some traction on the Workflow History issue at the end of last week and the revelation was pretty far-reaching, so I'm posting again. It turns out that the stuff I said about systemupdate was wrong... up to a...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 07-14-2008
Bug tracking with TFS

I have posted in the past about my efforts to write a user facing bug tracking interface for TFS to integrate with our SharePoint based customer portal. I have had some mixed success , but the end point is that I am just not happy with what I have written. Historically we have used our own home grown...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 07-06-2008
Newcastle SharePoint User Group

I'm heading over to Newcastle for the SharePoint User Group tonight. It's a whiteboard session on MOSS Architecture. Newcastle SharePoint User Group Hope to see you there if you are going. UPDATE.... Big thank you to John Timney (Cap Gemini), Brian English (Cap Gemini) and Phil Hunter (BT) for...

Posted to From the outside in (Weblog) by Iain on 07-03-2008

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