November 2007 - Posts

Writing to the SharePoint Trace Log in your code
18 November 07 11:24 PM | shawnfel | 1 Comments   

Updated: You should not register the trace provider on every request. Use a singleton to check for registration. Found a great example on how to write to the SharePoint trace log on msdn. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979522.aspx . This is Read More...

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SharePoint, DOCTYPE, and Master Pages
18 November 07 11:28 PM | shawnfel | 3 Comments   

SharePoint by default does not support taking IE out of quirks mode. This is discussed in a great blog entry by Heather Solomon . Not enforcing a dtd through the DOCTYPE element in the default.master (for example DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML Read More...

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Quick Guide on how to install Reporting Services on its own server/cluster in SharePoint Integration Mode without using Kerberos
18 November 07 11:27 PM | shawnfel | 4 Comments   

Install SQL Server 2005 - Reporting Services Only Install SQL Server Service Pack 2 Install Sharepoint (as WFE)- SKU (Enterprise Edition, Standard,etc..) has to match the other SKUs in the farm Run the Sharepoint Server Configuration (do not add central Read More...

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Reporting Services Support for Forms Authentication in SharePoint Integration Mode
18 November 07 11:27 PM | shawnfel | 0 Comments   

Better late than never - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939942 Read More...

Transparent Images in Reporting Services
18 November 07 11:25 PM | shawnfel | 0 Comments   

If you've been trying to put a transparent image into reporting services and have not been able to make the background transparent i share your pain. Luckily i found a solution. 1. Place a rectangle where you would place the image 2. Place the image inside Read More...

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Automating Analysis Services Deployments from the Command Line
18 November 07 11:24 PM | shawnfel | 0 Comments   

The following blog has a great step by step on how to install Analysis Services Cubes from the Command Line Read More...

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Automating Report Deployment with Reporting Services in SharePoint Integration Mode
18 November 07 11:23 PM | shawnfel | 10 Comments   

Automating Report Deployment in Reporting Services can be challenging. SharePoint offers many modes of deployment of files. Unfortunately the out of the box deployment for SharePoint does not allow for automatic hook up of data sources. So you can deploy Read More...

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How to connect Filter Web Parts
18 November 07 11:22 PM | shawnfel | 1 Comments   

There an excellent post on this blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/edhild/archive/2007/04/17/how-to-connect-web-parts-during-site-provisioning.aspx ) about how to connect Web Parts in sharepoint. With a little change you can connect filters using the same technique. Read More...

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Search Issues: No-index Attribute
18 November 07 11:21 PM | shawnfel | 0 Comments   

I ran into a pretty unique situation with crawl rules and search. Here's what happened... I configured crawl rules to ensure that the crawler does not crawl the internet. I started by adding an inclusion of *://*.somecompany.com/* to include all urls Read More...

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Configuring SSO
18 November 07 11:16 PM | shawnfel | 0 Comments   

Had some install issues turning on SSO, here's what i found... The install instructions on Technet are mostly correct with the caveat that inorder to create the database you have to login as the SSO account to the first server where the service is turned Read More...

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SharePoint Install Issues
18 November 07 11:11 PM | shawnfel | 2 Comments   

Here's what i encountered in the latest install, hope this benefits the community Error Encountered: Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( .NET Runtime ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information Read More...

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