Of Ones and Zeros

User Profile Import Stuck

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by bryan.

A client had an issue today with user profile imports being “stuck”.  In one instance (the production instance) the profile import was stuck actually performing the import, in the non-production instance it was stuck on “Enumerating”.  Found a great article by Henrik Andersson to fix the issue.  Here is what he posted as the fix:
Open [...]

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Migrating Subsites to New Site Collections

Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by bryan.

I am currently working on a project to split up a single site collection to multiple site collections.  There are multiple reasons for doing so, and there are useful blog posts dedicated to the topic of whether to use multiple site collections or subsites.  In this instance, the primary driver for using multiple site collections [...]

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“Object reference not set to an instance of an object” executing STSADM commands

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by bryan.

If you are attempting to execute STSADM commands, and are receiving the ominous “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” error, make sure that the user account that are using to execute STSADM has permissions to the SQL database.  I ran into an issue today where the domain account had permissions to [...]

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Promising SharePoint projects on CodePlex

Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by bryan.

I spent some time on CodePlex today researching the latest open-source SharePoint projects.  I probably haven’t peeked through CodePlex in the past 6 months, and I was very encouraged by the quantity of projects out there.  Following are the ones of particular interest to me:
SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard
http://spdeploymentwizard.codeplex.com/
The SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard is a tool [...]

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Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

Posted on 26. May, 2009 by bryan.

Microsoft’s SharePoint team has announced that there is a bug in Service Pack 2 for MOSS that will trigger SharePoint to believe it is a trial instance of the product.  A workaround is supplied by Microsoft:
We are working to release a hotfix to automatically fix this issue. A manual work-around is currently available and involves [...]

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SharePoint SP2 is RTW

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

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.

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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SharePoint Designer available as a free download

Posted on 03. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

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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Office Picture Manager won’t open after clicking "Upload Multiple" in Picture Library

Posted on 19. Mar, 2009 by bryan.

There’s a title for you!  In any event, a client ha an issue where after clicking "Upload Multiple" in a SharePoint Picture Library, the Microsoft Office Picture Manager would not load.  After digging through the page source, it was determined that SharePoint uses the "OISCTRL.OISClientLauncher" class from the "OISCTRL.dll" to power the Upload Multiple functionality [...]

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Late to the ball-game: Change to licensing for MOSS Internet + Intra/Extranet

Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by bryan.

I was preparing a response to an RFP today for SharePoint that required Forms Services to be used for both anonymous Internet sites AND authenticated-user Intranet scenarios.  When I first reviewed this requirement I thought, "Oh snap!  MOSS licensing doesn’t permit mixing Internet and Intranet, this will need to be two farms!".  I was dead [...]

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