Archive for March, 2008

Logged in as System Account

Posted on 31. Mar, 2008 by bryan.

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Had an issue today where a developer was testing a web part that required a user profile, and an exception was being thrown that the user profile did not exist.  We verified in the SSP that the user profile indeed existed, and also used the "stsadm -o sync" command to force a profile synchronization.  However, [...]

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Great new Visual Studio color theme

Posted on 28. Mar, 2008 by bryan.

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The other day Tomas Restrepo released a new Visual Studio Color Theme called Distant Shores.  It is a low-contrast theme with a dark background, and I must admit I am a BIG FAN!  Have a look at the following screen shot.  BTW – The font I am using is Damien Guard’s Envy CodeR font that [...]

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Cannot start service SPAdmin on computer ‘.’

Posted on 25. Mar, 2008 by bryan.

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Came in the office today to an issue with a MOSS box that was recently stood up in our lab environment.  The server was configured to do automatic updates, and installed SharePoint updates overnight.  Turns out the upgrade portion of the update failed, and perusing the diagnostic logs revealed the following error:
Cannot start service SPAdmin [...]

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Did I miss a memo? Where is everyone going?

Posted on 13. Mar, 2008 by bryan.

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A movement of sorts is afoot in the blogosphere.  Apparently everyone who has a popular blog has seen fit to alter their employment status in the past 6 months:
Joel Oleson:  http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2008/03/12/moving-on.aspx
Jeff Atwood: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001074.html
Scott Hanselman: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BlueBadge.aspx
Craig Shoemaker: http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/craigshoemaker/archive/2007/11/14/366194.aspx
Simply an observation.  Bizarre.

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Mounting Virtual PC VHD images on host OS

Posted on 04. Mar, 2008 by bryan.

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Found a great new trick today for mounting Virtual PC VHD files as drives within the host operating system.  In the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 installer is a utility called "VHDMount".  If you install Virtual Server you can elect to only install this utility (if you do a custom install).  This will create a [...]

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Internet Explorer (IE) crashing accessing SharePoint lists

Posted on 04. Mar, 2008 by admin.

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If you have clients with a mix of Office 2003 and Office 2007 components (for instance Word 2003, Excel 2003, but SharePoint Designer 2007), they may experience intermittent Internet Explorer crashes.  The following hotfix from Microsoft corrects this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888

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Import Spreadsheet – "Cannot connect to the server at this time."

Posted on 04. Mar, 2008 by admin.

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Ran into an issue today with trying to import an Excel 2003 spreadsheet into a SharePoint list.  SharePoint would load Excel, then you select the cells in Excel that you want to import, you click Import and Excel responds with "Cannot connect to the server at this time."  After a long while searching for a [...]

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