While building a portion of our demo SharePoint 2010 farm, I encountered an error when publishing an Access 2010 database to a SharePoint 2010 Access Services site. The error which was shown was ‘ did not respond. Either the server does not exist, Microsoft Access Services are not enabled on the server, or the server …

During a recent SharePoint upgrade using the database attach method, I saw the following recorded in the upgrade error log: [powershell] [PerWebUpgradeAction (4.0.10.0)] [INFO] [13/04/2011 15:55:48]: SPSite Url=http://intranet.domain.com [powershell] [PerWebUpgradeAction (4.0.10.0)] [WARNING] [13/04/2011 15:55:48]: …

In SharePoint 2007 there seemed to be no easy way to work out which site template was used to create a site (particularly for the end user). Solutions existed using stsadm, or by uploading a custom page to SharePoint, but unless you were an admin, these routes are likely to be closed off to you. Things are a little …

When creating the PerformancePoint Service Application, there is no way to control the name of the database that is created, not even when using PowerShell to create the Service Application. The database that gets created is in the form _GUID which for some reason a good many DBAs are not too keen on! The database can …

I recently saw the above error on a SharePoint 2007 install of a test system. Reading a few blog posts, it seemed that most people were reporting the error as an issue when there was a problem with communication between the SharePoint server on which the wizard was being run and the domain controller it was connecting …

I’ve been working on a small SharePoint project this week. I have a single machine setup - I’m developing in Visual Studio and deploying to a local installation of SharePoint I set about writing the code, unit testing it and then deploying it into SharePoint. However when I came to re-run the unit tests (after …

As part of a project I have been working on we wanted to assign categories to items in SharePoint 2010 and decided to use Managed Metadata. Wictor Wilén has a good post explaining what Managed Metadata is and how to set it up. Like Wictor, I also prefer to provision site columns and content types using a combination of …

I recently ran into this issue while trying to move a series of sub-sites to site collections on a SharePoint farm. In order to achieve part of the process, I’d scripted the deletion of the sub-site tree using the stsadm –o deleteweb command once I’d exported it as there were quite a number of sub-sites and I wanted to …

If you store large files in SharePoint 2007 and are using webdav to access them (Explorer View uses webdav for example), you may be seeing the following error: Cannot Copy : Cannot read from the source file or disk If so, this relates to a registry key which is set on the local machine to limit the maximum file …

Today’s highlights from the sessions I attended: One of the new features of SharePoint 2010 is Access Services – we at Black Marble have been doing some work using Access Services (see Richard’s blog post for more details, along with the Access 2010 demo on Channel9), which Robert and I presented during the first …