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XP Home to XP Professional when IE8 is involved

The one major thing that I did not like with my Dell Mini was the fact it had installed XP Home. My main grip with this was the fact my main user account had to be an admin user, and I could not login as a user called administrator unless in safe mode. So I decided to do an in place upgrade to XP Professional...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 10-02-2008
Signing Powershell scripts with a Thawte code signing certificate

I hit a problem today when trying to sign a powershell script as detailed on Scott Hanselman's blog with a Thawte code signing certificate . The basic issue was that the certificate could be seen in the Personal section of the Certificates MMC snap-in. Also it was listed if I issued the Powershell...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 09-10-2008
Upgrading Team Foundation Server 2008 with SP1

Today I got round to upgrading our TFS 2008 (dual server setup) with Team Server 2008 SP1 . I tried it first on my demo VPC I use for presentations (reminder I am at VBug Coventry at the end of the talking about TFS , a free event open to all). Anyway, this update went fine and did not take too long...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 09-06-2008
Controlling a Ajax Control ModalPopupExtender from Code behind

I have had a nightmare getting this going. Adding the ModalPopupExtender to a form is easy, you drop it on and tell it the two required controls parameters PopupControlID="MyModalPanel" TargetControlID="ButtonToLoadIt" And it just works fine, but is triggered by a client side click...

Posted to But it works on my PC! (Weblog) by Richard on 09-02-2008
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
Netware 6.5 on Hyper-V

As part of a customer project I needed to create a Netware environment for testing. It's been a little while since I did any netware management and I quite enjoyed it. I did, however, encounter a couple of gotchas which I thought I'd write up for the greater good. Netware OS Installing the Netware...

Posted to When software attacks! (Weblog) by Rik on 08-14-2008
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
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
Configuring ActiveSync on Windows Mobile for Exchange Push

I'm not certain how many of you will find this useful, but I had a question about configuring the Touch Diamond to talk to Exchange which I regrettably failed to notice. It's an interesting point of debate, now I come to think of it. When I got my Diamond the first thing I did was confgigure...

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

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