Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

I believe firmly that if you are going to *play* in SharePoint, you should play in a sandbox, and ideally, with production *like* data.  To accomplish this for clients, I generally provide a ‘sandbox’ site, in addition to their production WSS site.   So, for example, if a client had a portal at https://portal.mycompany.com, I’d …

Well this came in handy the other day…   Use this path, to connect to your local SharePoint Windows Internal Database (WID) using SQL Server Management Studio Express (2005), such as in cases where you need to move the databases (say from the default of C: to E:) \.pipeMSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEEsqlquery Found this tonight (Feb 2009) and …

SharePoint vs. the File Server SharePoint offers… 1. Web based access to your files from anywhere (work, home, the airport and from anything (PC, MAC, mobile devices) – in a Web browser or familiar Explorer view   2. SharePoint offers a Two Stage” recycle bin – if you delete a file in SharePoint, you can …

  Ran into this tonight, using CKS:EBE (Community Kit for SharePoint, Enhanced Blog Edition).  Basically, I get the ugly error below in certain themes and the page rendering gets all screwed up (and the blog post is ruined forever and results in a ‘404 Not Found’ page instead of the SharePoint page).   Failed to …

  While attempting to perform a SharePoint Sub-site restore, using SharePoint Designer 2007, from a nested MOSS installation (https://portal.company.com/projects/supersaucesite) to a dedicated WSS site (root collection), I ran into the following error.   Error occurred while importing the web http://xxxxxx.  Could not find Feature DataConnectionLibrary     The problem is, the source site had MOSS …

  That first user, after the work processes gets recycled, gets to have that long ASP.NET compile pause. Joel Oleson has written a script to alleviate that pause (though isn’t that when you get your first cup of coffee?).   http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2006/08/13/697044.aspx

SharePoint slow to load in the AM? That first user, after the work processes gets recycled, gets to have that long ASP.NET compile pause. Joel Oleson has written a script to alleviate that pause (though isn’t that when you get your first cup of coffee?). http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2006/08/13/697044.aspx

That title sure read lame (or geeky)… So, need to use PSConfig to attach to a different Configuration Database for SharePoint? Using WID (Windows Internet Database) and not full SQL? Don’t forget you need to specify the Instance with your configdb -connect -server setup – as in servernameMICROSOFT##SSEE That syntax needs to be correct, or …

Ran into a very frustrating issue tonight, where my Web Part Connections were breaking, with very little logging/diagnostic info returned. In fact, depending on the scenario, the most informative information SharePoint (well, ASP.NET really) gave me was stuff like this… An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line x, position y. (X and Y will be …

Ok, got tired of getting An unexpected error has occurred” messages. Maybe friendly to some, but useless to those of us trying to get some SharePoint development done. The solution is to change a single entry in web.config, by modifying the line… SafeMode MaxControls=”200″ CallStack=”false”… to… SafeMode MaxControls=”200″ CallStack=”true”… You will also need to set …