Archive for 'SharePoint'

"The security validation for this page is invalid"

Posted on 18. Nov, 2008 by bryan.

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I’m currently working on a SharePoint project that makes extensive use of programmatically setting ListItem ACL’s.  There is a List Event Handler which sets ACLs on the ItemAdded event, but then there is an administrative interface that enables administrators to reassign list items to another user which effectively means replacing the ACLs for the ListItem [...]

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Where is my storage space going?

Posted on 17. Nov, 2008 by bryan.

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Over the past few weeks I have had several instances of where I need to know how where space is being allocated within a site collection.  For instance, one client has seen tremendous growth of the site collection database, but is not sure how/where/why the space is being used.  Another client has also seen rapid [...]

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The SharePoint Development Tax

Posted on 04. Nov, 2008 by bryan.

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Typically when you are talking about SharePoint the conversation revolves around all of the great "out of the box" functionality you receive with the product.  In no way do I intend to argue against that, SharePoint is a fantastic product that does many things very well.
SharePoint as a development platform… well, that’s a whole different [...]

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Value does not fall within the expected range

Posted on 09. Oct, 2008 by bryan.

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I’ve been battling this error several times over the past few weeks in varying contexts.  Today’s occurrence was in accessing "Page Settings" of a MOSS Page.  Thanks to YongYS for the following fix:
http://www.bronios.com/index.php/2008/01/18/moss-page-setting-error-value-does-not-fall-within-the-expected-range/
A few weeks ago I was running into this issue after backing up a content database and moving it to another farm.   Thanks [...]

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IIS and Windows 2003 Mismatched Service Packs

Posted on 11. Sep, 2008 by admin.

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I have this nagging feeling that I have been down this road before, so I need to blog it so maybe, just maybe, I won’t waste another hour troubleshooting something I’ve done before.
Scenario:
You browse to Central Admin, or any Site Collection really, and you are prompted incessantly for  your user credentials.  After about 5-8 times, [...]

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Custom Workflows with Collect Data

Posted on 25. Jun, 2008 by bryan.

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In the past week I have implemented several custom workflows for a client using SharePoint Designer.  The workflows were pretty simple:  A Forms Services form would be completed, in the form would be a the Manager’s name and e-mail address.  The workflow would use the "Collect Data" action to perform an approval workflow, assigning an [...]

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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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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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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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