Recently I was asked to modify a custom solution downloaded from CodePlex to allow it to updated web.config file programmatically. The deployment steps provided from CodePlex involve manual modification to web.config files on all WFE servers across the...

Are you experiencing the following combination of errors from event logs and ULS los? I found it occur most often after SharePoint migration from 2007 to 2010. However the same issue can also be reproduced in SP2010 using the out-of-box survey list and...

I recently had an issue with custom machine key in the web.config file on the WFE servers. We use non-autogenerated machine key to de/encrypt custom solutions deployed in SharePoint farm. However this key was changed every midnight and the next morning...

There is a nice article about what this links does and how to change your default my site. Set or change your default My Site http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/set-or-change-your-default-my-site-HA010168639.aspx   However what...

--- SUMMARY --- SharePoint 2010 SP1 + 2011 August CU multi-server farm's Central Admin site's Health Analyzer shows "Mising Server Side Dependencies" on Web Part ID [baf5274e-a800-8dc3-96d0-0003d9405663]. Solution is to replicate Central Admin site's...

Tech-Ed 2011 sessions available for viewing online … http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/ For those who are too poor, too cheap, too busy, too scared to attend :) Tech-Ed Australia 2011 is currently going on right now, session videos...

Windows 8 press conference | Showcase in Taiwan http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/silverlightApps/videoplayer3/standalone.aspx?contentID=win8_preview1&src=/presspass/presskits/windows7/channel.xml or donwload the video directly from: ...

This post doesn't really have anything to do with SharePoint, but a little game on my iPhone. Tiny Tower Official Site: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiny-tower/id422667065?mt=8 The game is called " Tiny Tower...

Here are the error messages I had with this particular problem. 1. People search (a search page with People Search Box web part and People Search Core Result web part) returns the following error: Internal server error exception: System.Threading...

Does the following error message looks familiar to you? (When you go to Site Actions –> Site Settings –> [Site Administration] –> Term store management) “ The managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not...

  I recently ran into a problem of setting up my guest OS (Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise) to obtain IP address from the domain DHCP server. Sadly, in VMPlayer’s network settings, there are only 3 options available: - Bridged: Connected directly...

There are many blogs and MSDN articles talking about the same topic but I decided to write my own one as I did not get a satisfying explanation of why adding the codes here and there when the articles told me to. I believe what I am trying to achieve...

This article demonstrate the basic idea of using Web Services to serialize objects and write them into XML file and deserialize data stored in XML file into objects. The example used is a typical Books and Book collection xml structure as below. ...

The issue that I want to talk about here may not have a direct solution to it, but definitely have some satisfying explanations. Recently I wanted to add some custom pages in SharePoint central admin site which allows me to configure some custom farm...

A very good article about new MacBook Pro's stupid audio/video playback problem. http://www.corenettech.com/blog/?p=30 Problem =========== Intermittent lag when viewing video clips. It would happen every couple of minutes and would last for approx...

The problem happened when a user purposely failed 3 login attemps to site that's hosted on IIS 7.0 and all you got on the screen was a blank IE page with "Done" in the status. So what is going on here? Did the user really failed the authentication or...

Recently I had come across a problem where my client was using Blackberry to visit MOSS mobile site using NTLM authentication. I suppose a little back ground information need to be explained first. The MOSS site was hosted on a Windows 2008 x64 Server...

SharePoint office server and WSS 3.0 December cumulative update is now available for download. Check detailed installation instruction from SharePoint Team Blog first: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/12/17/announcing-december-cumulative...