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SharePoint 2010 Error Changing Variation Label Display Name

Sameer Dhoot — Mon, 02 May 2011 22:20:48 +0000

I have setup a multilingual WCM site with 6 languages. I created the web application and then setup variations to test the language pack installation. It was a test site with English as my source language. I used the Display Name for each variation which was in written in English rather then using the native [...]

PowerShell Script to check SQL server connectivity, version, custering status, user permissions

Sameer Dhoot — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:01:58 +0000

SharePoint service account requires dbcreator and securityadmin roles to setup a farm. Often time it is neglected by the clients while provisioning the accounts as in most cases there are two different teams involved in this the Active Directory team and the DBA's whose manages the SQL Server platform. The missing right are discovered late [...]

SharePoint 2010 Language Pack Installing Support for East Asian Languages

Sameer Dhoot — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:51:00 +0000

We are trying to setup a multilingual public facing site using SharePoint's WCM features. We wanted several languages which also included Korean, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified). Back when I deployed SP2007 on Windows Server 2003 for a multilingual solution, I had to install some operating system specific file to get support for East Asian Languages [...]

Configuring SharePoint 2010 Document Libraries with Exchange Server 2010 to receive mails from internal/external world

Sameer Dhoot — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:36:04 +0000

This article will help you to configure SharePoint 2010/2007 server to receive Incoming emails. Following are high level step in order to configure this

Configure SMTP Server on SharePoint Server which will receive emails
Configure SharePoint to pick up the email from the SMTP server
Configure Document Library to receive email
Configure Exchange Server, create External Email ID
Configure Exchange Server, create "Transport Rule"
Configure Exchange Server, create "Send Connector"

Installation Issue SharePoint Server 2010 Release Candidate on Domain Controller

Sameer Dhoot — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:16:53 +0000

I just got the RC bits for SharePoint Server 2010 (14.0.4730.1010). Well the good news is that the prerequisites installer now takes care of the WCF Hot Fix required. Apart from this there is no change in Prerequisites. To fully utilize the SharePoint functionality and to overcome the restriction on using Local Account we decided [...]

SharePoint 2010 Resources on Architecture, Planning, Search, SDK

Sameer Dhoot — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:09:00 +0000

Here are some resources which will help you to learn more about the upcoming SharePoint Server 2010 Here are some technical diagrams and Visio diagrams on architecture for SharePoint Server 2010 Title Visio PDF Description Services in SharePoint 2010 Products Visio PDF Describes and illustrates the services architecture, including and common ways to deploy services [...]

SharePoint 2010 now supports Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline

Sameer Dhoot — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:34:00 +0000

I have been waiting to see this transition of SharePoint 2007 currently working in classic mode ASP.NET pipeline even when running under Win 2008/IIS 7.0. Win 2008 and IIS 7.0 has improved a lot and has been very modular. IIS 7.0 has ability to operate the application pool under Integrated mode ASP.NET pipeline which essentially [...]

Boot From VHD – Replacing Vista or Windows 2008 Bootloader with Windows 7 Bootloader

Sameer Dhoot — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:12:15 +0000

Windows 7 introduce a cool feature enabling us to boot OS on bare metal from a VHD file. This is done by using the new bootloader which comes with Windows 7. So many people out there (specially techie) who might have vista or windows 2008 as their OS might want to try out Windows 7 [...]

SharePoint Calculated Columns Formulas

Sameer Dhoot — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:28:13 +0000

SharePoint/WSS has field type which is calculated column. This is very handy for end users who do not have to run to their IT for new calculated data they require. Well but they are not well documented and not everyone knows tricks to put formulas to work. I have numerous situations where I need to [...]

SharePoint Cumulative Update for Feb 2009

Sameer Dhoot — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:17:00 +0000

Microsoft has released cumulative update for WSS 3.0 on 24 Feb which has the following HotFix 961750 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961750/ ) Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): February 24, 2009 963023 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/963023/ ) Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): January 27, 2009 961175 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961175/ ) Description of the Windows [...]

Windows Shortcuts

Amit Sharma — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:12:52 +0000

We all know a few or every available Shortcuts in Windows. Mainly they are “Windows Key” + other keys But we need more (humans are always greedy:D) lol Not just greedy, some people are lazy too, like me and don’t even want to do more than a few clicks. Without clicks, one can not use [...]

SharePoint Planning and Architecture Resources : Visio Diagrams

Sameer Dhoot — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:56:00 +0000

Arno Nel has published links to a really cool set of Visio drawings that relate to Microsoft SharePoint on his blog: Arno Nel 2.0 - The Information Worker. The diagrams illustrate models, scenarios, and flowcharts for planning, designing and deploying SharePoint installations. These high-quality Visio drawings were created by Microsoft for the TechNet site, and [...]

Running CQWP on Team Site without publishing infrastructure feature enabled (MOSS 2007)

Sameer Dhoot — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:22:00 +0000

Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is by far the most useful web part when it comes to render the contents and allowing developers full control over its style and layout. It is bundled as part of MOSS 2007 and it is enabled with Publishing Infrastructure. So if you are using Team Site template then the [...]

Drivers HP DV6000 Vista 64-Bit (DV6775US) 4GB RAM

Sameer Dhoot — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:41:46 +0000

I had to upgrade my personal laptop which is HP DV6000 ( Part # DV6775US ) to Vista 64-Bit Ultimate edition. I took the laptop with Vista Home premium 32-Bit and have used it for a while. I have decided to upgrade my laptop to 4GB of ram and discovered that 32-Bit won't use all [...]

Determine the site template used to create SharePoint sites

Sameer Dhoot — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:38:23 +0000

I was facing an issue where two site which were look alike but behaved differently, the navigation and bread crumbs were laid differently. We have a standard process to using pre defined templates and as per the request for site creation both the site were suppose to have Team Site template and I guess they [...]

Excel 2007 creating Hyperlinks programmatically

Sameer Dhoot — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:40:28 +0000

Today, I had to create a excel repot on SharePoint Libraries (Document and Forms Library) used and URL for each of them. As discussed in the earlier post I had already extracted the information from SharePoint using direct SQL access Enumerating all Document Libraries and Form Libraries in a Site Collection Using SQL The excel [...]

Installing a language pack for SharePoint (MOSS SP1 and WSS 3.0 SP1)

Sameer Dhoot — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:42:00 +0000

Installing SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) or WSS 3.0 in multi-lingual environment is not point and click process. It take you a while to download and install them all. Also it depends on how many language are you supporting. To enable SharePoint for multi-lingual contents you need to install the following component and most importantly you have [...]

Remove InfoPath form template from local cache

Sameer Dhoot — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:31:00 +0000

The first time a form template is launched, InfoPath places it into its form template cache. On each subsequently launch, InfoPath will first check to see whether the template is already in the cache. This is very beneficial for forms that are only available online. If you are working with an online form, and you [...]

Permanently Disable file “Unblock” security feature in Vista

Sameer Dhoot — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:00:52 +0000

Yesterday I have posted about to “Unblock” the files which are downloaded from other computers or Internet using the console utility from Sysinternals called Streams.exe. Read about it here Utility to recursively “Unblock” files downloaded from InternetPermanent Link to The reason for this is because, in Vista, the file's zone information is being preserved within [...]

A New Look with Professional Looking WordPress Theme

Sameer Dhoot — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:17:11 +0000

I have been trying various themes for long time. Could not settle down with any one. No theme is full proof as the requirement and taste differs for each individuals The blogging system I used on this blog is WordPress powered version 2.6 which is one the best around considering it small footprint and extensibility [...]

Utility to recursively “Unblock” files downloaded from Internet

Sameer Dhoot — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:19:00 +0000

I recently downloaded almost all utilities from SysInternals they offer a single package called Suite and you can download it from here Download Sysinternals Suite Now when you run these programs you get this nagging popup every time you run files which are downloaded from internet. At bottom you see a message: "This file came [...]

Enumerating all Document Libraries and Form Libraries in a Site Collection Using SQL

Sameer Dhoot — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:12:49 +0000

Recently I had a situation where I needed to produce a list of all Document Libraries and Forms Libraries within a site collection along with associated template attached to them. The site collection was quite huge with the database size of over 75 Gigs and thousands of libraries and the environment was SharePoint Portal Server [...]

Dell D830 Setting up Vista 64-Bit

Sameer Dhoot — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:45:43 +0000

I just got a beefy Dell D830 at my work which was loaded with 4GB of RAM as 32-Bit OS (Vista/XP) does not support 4GB of RAM I decided to go with 64-Bit version of Vista Enterprise. I went ahead to the Dell site and looked up drivers for D830 on Vista 64-Bit platform here [...]

Troubleshooting/Debugging SharePoint

Sameer Dhoot — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:57:08 +0000

Most of cases you would have had hard time to figure out error with SharePoint. SharePoint is know to be bad when it comes to providing verbose error and debugging environment. There are few tricks which can save you a lot of time when you are in trouble. - modify web.config for verbose errors (server) [...]

TFS Tools and Utilities – Part II : Email Subscription

Sameer Dhoot — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:17:22 +0000

TFS has a feature for sending email on various events to the subscribers. Users can subscribe for an limited events from the Team Explorer (The default events are quite frequently needed and should satisfy need for most of them). Following is how you can use email alert in TFS Open Team Explorer (Crtl+\, Ctrl+M) Right-click [...]