Archive for April, 2009

SharePoint SP2 is RTW

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

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SharePoint SP2 is Release to World (RTW) as of today.  Some of the highlights from the SharePoint team blog:
Benefits
Customers can be benefited from the following enhancements with Service Pack 2.

Performance and Availability Improvements

Service Pack 2 includes many fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms, including:

New Timer job [...]

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Error when deleting list columns in SharePoint

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

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Received the following error when trying to delete a list column: 
“Unable to validate data.”

Thanks to Angela Chng for the solution:
Did you customize your application master pages and get this error while trying to delete list columns?
Unable to validate data. at System.Web.Configuration.MachineKeySection.GetDecodedData(Byte[] buf, Byte[] modifier, Int32 start, Int32 length, Int32& dataLength)   at System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter.Deserialize(String [...]

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Setting up Sitefinity to forward old Urls to new Urls

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

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My colleague Adam Duggan pointed me to an incredible useful post on the Sitefinity support forums: http://www.sitefinity.com/support/forums/support-forum-thread/b1043S-bhamhe.aspx.  I mistakenly believed that Sitefinity would support redirecting .ASP files to the new .ASPX counterparts as long as IIS had the .ASP extension associated with the aspnet_isapi.dll runtime.  WRONG!  As indicated in the forum posting by Randy, the [...]

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SharePoint Designer available as a free download

Posted on 03. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

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Microsoft has released SharePoint Designer as a free download (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx)!  My friend and colleague Jeff Becraft discusses this news, and provides sage advice to proceed with caution (Becraft’s Blog: The rumors are true! SharePoint Designer is now a FREE DOWNLOAD!). 
From my vantage point as an architect and developer of SharePoint solutions, it is important [...]

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