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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 …

Using the Community Kit for SharePoint : Enhanced Blog Edition, I missed an important detail in the User Guide, that recommends that you do not in fact select ‘SharePoint’ as your blogging provider, but rather the ‘Metaweblog API’ provider.  Being that I initially set it up at 3am, I’m cutting myself some slack for not …

  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 …

Ok, got something to say? (your blog) Got somewhere to say it? (CKS:EBE – SharePoint Blogging Engine) Got something to say it with? (Word 2007 or Windows Live Writer) Now, spread the word, be sure to add ping servers, if you want to get the word out fast. Kurt Shintaku has a nice post here, …

  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 …