Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Ran into this the other day, when upgrading (in Place) a SharePoint 2010 environment. The following was logged in Central admin and the screenshots below were the fix (you could also modify your web.config directly).   Title Web.config file has incorrect settings for the requestFiltering element. Severity 1 – Error Category Configuration Explanation The requestFiltering …

Don’t mind me. I’m just storing some Feature and other GUID’s that I had to reverse engineer during SharePoint 2007 to 2010 Upgrades. Perhaps, when someone is googling, they will stumble across these and be glad that I did (so they can use the appropriate uninstaller and/or find the missing pieces they need:   ID …

There are some new defaults in a SharePoint 2010 environment and I stumbled upon one today in my upgraded environment. When trying to simply click on an Excel spreadsheet in a document library, I get the following: This workbook cannot be opened because it is not stored in an Excel Services Application trusted location. To …

Arrived on the scene today. The SharePoint 2010 SDK (Software Development Kit). http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26f

The problem In SharePoint 2010, SharePoint web applications (thus this is a per ‘url’ setting, for content, My Sites, etc.) ‘browser file handling’ is set to ‘strict’ be default.   The Result When you try to open a PDF (or other file types), you will have the option to open to read/edit but then be …

Getting this?     Server error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=177673   It may be because your environment is being upgraded right now from SharePoint 2007 (or WSS 3.0) to SharePoint 2010. I figured I’d take a second to post this. I know my environment is being upgraded (’cause I’m the one doing it) but I was surprised to …

    I have been preparing our itgroove Corporate MOSS 2007 environment for an upgrade to SharePoint 2010. Tonight was the night to complete the last little bits before the big (in place, I like to live dangerously) upgrade. I’ve done a few database attach upgrades already and those were too straightforward, so nothing like …

A friend asked for screenshots the other day. So, here they are as I had ’em on hand. Figure 1 – SP2010 Home Page with Wiki Home Page On   Figure 2 – Site Actions Figure 3 – Ribbon bar – love it!

While there are a number of techniques out there to present users with an alternate location to end up after submitting content to a SharePoint list, this one is quick and easy and effective and worthy of spending 10 minutes documenting on a Friday night (brew in hand).   The Business Problem   Upon entering …

The Error I was attempting to complete the SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites checker at a customer today but I was having difficulty as the necessary Internet access for the checker wasn’t performing well (the customer has a Proxy server that was getting in the way and causing unexpected Internet connection issues). In the end, I had …