Planet MOSS

Project Server 2010: Bug When Creating PWA Project Sites after CU patches are Installed

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:09:00 +0000

We applied the latest Cumulative Updates to our SharePoint installation after doing some testing, and immediately ran into an error trying to create Project Server 2010 project sites. Project Site...

SharePoint Bug: 2010 Menus Not Working in IE9

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:48:00 +0000

I setup a new laptop on the weekend and this morning found a crazy bug – my SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010 menus and ribbon would not work at all, basically rendering my laptop useless...

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant: Awesome Insight Into the Web Platform Wars

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:52:00 +0000

FASCINATING blog post from a Google engineer who used to work for Amazon.com. While the gist is a rant about Google+, the bits I dig are around Amazon’s transformation into a Service Oriented...

SharePoint Conference 2011: Using Claims for Authorization in SharePoint 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:04:00 +0000

Rough notes of the presentation by Antonio Maio at Titus Inc. Antonio walked everyone through a complicated Claims setup and made it look pretty easy. Agenda What are Claims? How they are...

SharePoint Conference 2011: How eBay Successfully Upgraded their Intranet to SharePoint 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:28:00 +0000

These are my rough notes of the presentation by Ramin Mobasseri and Chris Givens of eBay. The Hub is pretty impressive for the way it organizes information for its users and the lengths it goes to in...

SharePoint Conference 2011: Integrating Social Media with SharePoint Websites

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:58:00 +0000

These are my rough notes from an SPC presentation by Brian Rodriguez and Ryan Sockalosky. Awesome session – my favourite type – really matter of fact and presenting and solving issues clearly. ...

SharePoint Conference 2011: Developing SharePoint Applications with HTML5 and JQuery

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:06:00 +0000

These are my (very) rough notes of a session by Ted Pattison at the SharePoint 2011 Conference in Anaheim. It was a great session – Ted went into great detail in a short amount of time – and it was...

SharePoint Data Governance: Achieve Consistent & Automated Security Webinar Invite

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:22:00 +0000

Next Friday September 30 I will be co-presenting a live webinar on SharePoint Data Governance with Microsoft and our partners Titus. I will be speaking to some real world examples of handling...

Microsoft: Submit your story on SharePoint and Get Showcased!

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:56:00 +0000

Microsoft has posted the following contest – a great way of sharing SharePoint success stories with the world. Read on for details: There are so many fantastic success stories on SharePoint 2010...

SharePoint 2007 Search Quirk–Hit Highlighting on Integers

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:28:00 +0000

While working on a SharePoint 2007 custom search project we found an interesting little quirk in the search engine. We were using the XML iFilter rather than the regular html iFilter due to a...

SEO Tool for SharePoint 2010 WCM Sites

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:30:00 +0000

There is a great tool from Mavention called Meta Fields that allows SharePoint 2010 administrators to add metadata properties to the source code of their pages. This makes it easier for a search...

Managed Metadata Term Set Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:31:00 +0000

One of the great new features of SharePoint 2010 is the new Managed Metadata service, which allows you to centrally manage your metadata. You can setup hierarchical terms in a variety of languages,...

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:10:00 +0000

There is a great SharePoint maturity model created by Sadie Van Buren we use to help educate our clients and anticipate their growing use of our products and solutions. It's easy to use - just...

SharePoint 2010: People Search Results Not Showing on SSL secured portal

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:45:00 +0000

We started using SSL on our company portal at StoneShare and the people search results stopped showing up. After checking the log files, we realized this was caused by a top level error where the...

SharePoint 2010 Error: Document ID Not Set

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:05:00 +0000

Had an issue on a client machine where although Document IDs were enabled on the site collection, no IDs were being applied to the uploaded files. SharePoint assigns these IDs as part of a timer...

SharePoint 2010: Search Service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:02:00 +0000

Had a strange Search error in a new SharePoint 2010 farm: The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component...

SharePoint Workspace 2010 “exceeds the lookup column threshold”

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:45:00 +0000

While trying to sync to a SharePoint site using SharePoint Workspace 2010, you may bump into the following strange error: "The query cannot be completed because the number of lookup columns it...

How To: In Place Record Views in SharePoint 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:00:00 +0000

One of the great new features in SharePoint 2010 is the In Place Record declaration. This allows a user to apply Records management to any file in a document library. To enable this feature, you...

MOSS 2007 Service Pack 2 Backup May Lock and Remove Site Actions Options

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:40:00 +0000

We had a very strange error suddenly appear on a client’s site last week – we got the following email: Anyone know what's happening with site actions menu on the top level site of [the website]?...

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:00:00 +0000

SharePoint 2010 Bug: Cannot Rename Title On Validated List My colleague David has noticed what seems to be a bug in SharePoint 2010 on lists that have validation applied to them. If you try to...

Familiar Faces at the SharePoint Summit 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:55:00 +0000

Just got back from attending the SharePoint Summit 2010 in Montreal with my business partner Keith Carter. One of the nice things about the summit (apart from being in Montreal, which is always fun...

SharePoint 2010 Beta Migration Gotcha – SSP Errors

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:11:00 +0000

One of the big changes to SharePoint 2010 is the replacement of the Shared Service Provider concept with a series of application services. Essentially instead of a central managed “pool” or bundle...

SharePoint 2010 Migration – Stress Free!

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:24:00 +0000

SharePoint 2010 Migration Seminar

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:37:00 +0000

In my new role as Chief Technical Officer at StoneShare Inc., a Canadian SharePoint solutions firm, I am currently working on SharePoint 2010 migration options, and will be presenting a seminar on...

SharePoint 2010 Likely To Offer App Store

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:54:00 +0000

This just in from ReadWriteWeb: Microsoft will offer an application marketplace within Sharepoint 2010 that will integrate with third-party applications from its partner network. No date has...