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Exploring New Zealand’s South Island: Our Campervan Adventure Part 5
It was early in the morning on Saturday 21st December 2024 when we arrived at the offices of Shark Experience Ltd for our cage diving with sharks experience. The sky was overcast, it was dull and it was raining and the mood of the weather reflected, if I am honest, my own somewhat downbeat feeling.… more …
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Speaking at SharePoint European Best Practices Conference
Just got an email from the organisers of the SharePoint Eurpoean Best practices Conference in London between 11th and 13th April 2011, saying they’ve picked one of my sessions. Don’t know which one yet … Hopefully see you there! Cheers Dave Mc more …
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Debugging a VS2010 Website in IIS 7.0
Working on my standalone box, I wanted to do some debuggign specifically in IIS 7.0. It was quite easy to set up when you know how. After a bit of digging here’s what I did. Created a VS2010 ASP.NET Web Application In WebSite Properties, select ‘Use Custom Server’ and enter in your base Url.… more …
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SharePoint Custom Site Definition “A list, survey, discussion board, or document library with the specified title already exists in this Web site. Please choose another title”
This drove me mad! I created a couple of custom Site Definitions and had a matching webtemp*****.xml file. Or so I thought! But I had made a typo and a Site Definition which I had created using the Publishing Provisioning Assembly was being referenced by another Site Definition. A Site Definition which uses… more …
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SharePoint 2007 Audiences Not Showing All Users
Had an issue today with SharePoint 2007 Audiences. We had 3 Users in AD Group A, and had configured an Audience to include Users from Group A. No matter what we tried, Incremental Profile Imports, Full Profile Imports, we couldn’t get the Audience to compile with the correct users. I noticed in the… more …
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Passed Sharepoint 2010 Beta Exams
I had the opportunity to take all of the SharePoint 2010 Exams as Beta Exams in May and having just got back from holiday I found 4 nice emails telling me I’d passed them all. So in a fit of vanity I’ve decided to add the various logos on the right hand side… more …
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Relax and Remember …
It’s a bad time to be an English Football fan, but I was trawling through YouTube tonight and found this gem of a video of Paul Scholes goals! My favourite is the Beckham/Scholes Corner/Volley combo against Bradford (3 min 10 secs into the video) – absolute pinpoint timing/accuracy from both players at the top… more …
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“Access is Denied ” Error during SharePoint 2010 in-place Upgrade.
This was a disappointment, initially. I built a fully functioning 2 server SharePoint 2007 including full Kerberos configuration, User Profiles, Search and Excel Services all working. I ran an in-place upgrade, but it failed miserably around 25% with a curious "Access is Denied" error. The full log entry from the upgrade log file… more …
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SQL Server and SharePoint Version or Build Numbers
I keep having to look around for these, so I’m putting them up here as the definitive lists I use for version numbers. To see the SQL list you have to register at SQL Central (FREE). A good SQL Server version guide : http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server+2008/63491/ A good MOSS 2007 Build Number List is at http://share-point.blogspot.com/2009/09/mosswssv3-sharepoint-2007-build-numbers.html A… more …
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SharePoint 2010 “Unable to process Create message” Error When Creating User Profile Synchronization Connection
I was following Spencer Harbars great article A Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization for a second time and kept running into the "Unable to process Create message" when trying to do Step 13 on Configure Connections and do a Sync (Import). As Spence says in the article you… more …
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