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Access Denied due to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
06 May 09 05:24 PM | shawnfel | 1 Comments   

I was doing an install recently and a client happened to have installed the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 on the servers i was working.  The first environment i installed was a two server environment (1 SharePoint, 1 SQL) and everything was working fine.  Read More...

Restore error: "There are no more files" + COM error 0x80070012
14 January 09 02:19 PM | shawnfel | 6 Comments   

I was recently doing an stsadm –o restore to restore a backup and was able to successfully move my production site collection backup to test.  When i went to the site it mostly worked with the exception of one subsite.  One subsite was returning Read More...

Error encountered during install of December 2008 Cumulative updates
18 December 08 10:12 AM | shawnfel | 3 Comments   

UPDATE: This has been resolved by the product team with an updated build.  Problem: I installed the December updates as mentioned here SharePoint Team Blog Post and thought everything would just be as smooth as silk but that expectation was a little Read More...

Access Denied during Backup
20 November 08 02:37 PM | shawnfel | 1 Comments   

Was recently working with a client working on backup and came across this error Shared Search Index Completed 11/19/2008 2:04 PM Object Shared Search Index failed in event OnPrepareBackup. For more information, see the error log located in the backup Read More...

Access Denied with Windows Server 2008 and MOSS when Crawling
18 September 08 11:07 AM | shawnfel | 14 Comments   

So i created a new vm using Windows Server 2008, SharePoint Server 2007 + SP1 + Infrastructure updates. I'm also using a least priveleged account setup with least priveleged accounts running the individual MOSS Services and app pools. When I started a Read More...

Filed under: SharePoint, Search

Another Internet Facing MOSS Site Goes Live: XcelEnergy.com
16 September 08 02:11 PM | shawnfel | 1 Comments   

Another live MOSS site is out there. http://www.XcelEnergy.com . Read More...

Filed under: SharePoint

Interesting Kerberos Error Related to SQL Server from MOSS
27 June 08 10:27 AM | shawnfel | 0 Comments   

So we setup Kerberos on SharePoint using one of the many guides out there.  Everything worked great but SQL Server was returning KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKOWN which is typical.  So we registered an SPN for SQL Server using "Setspn -A MSSQLSvc/sqlboxhostname:1433 Read More...

Filed under: SharePoint

Programmatically retrieve a list of the file extensions from the SSP Search Service
23 June 08 02:23 PM | shawnfel | 1 Comments   

I recently had to expose the file extensions that we allow search to index outside of SharePoint. Unfortunately SharePoint does not expose this out of the box. So i had to write a web service to be deployed in MOSS that would expose the file extension Read More...

Filed under: SharePoint, .NET, Search

Automating Report Deployment in Reporting Services in SharePoint Integration Mode Revisited
17 June 08 11:55 AM | shawnfel | 6 Comments   

I had made a previous post with a small code sample on how to upload report deployment. Now I'm improving that post with a new sample that will automate the report deployment based on an xml file. I will utilize a file called ReportsDefinition.xml to Read More...

Legal Discovery, Symantec Enterprise Vault, and Microsoft SharePoint Server Integration
14 May 08 08:02 AM | shawnfel | 6 Comments   

Hoping this might be a good topic for some people because i guarantee there are very few people who have been through integrating these products.  I have been working on integrating the two products at a client for the past 5 months so hopefully Read More...

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...

Filed under: SharePoint

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...

Filed under: SharePoint

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...

Filed under: SharePoint, SQL Server Reporting Services

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...

Filed under: SQL Server Reporting Services