Random Thoughts on SharePoint, BI, and .NET

Access Denied due to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

shawnfel — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:24:35 GMT

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

shawnfel — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:19:41 GMT

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

shawnfel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:12:31 GMT

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

shawnfel — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:37:08 GMT

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

shawnfel — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:07:00 GMT

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)

Another Internet Facing MOSS Site Goes Live: XcelEnergy.com

shawnfel — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:11:00 GMT

Another live MOSS site is out there. http://www.XcelEnergy.com ....(read more)

Interesting Kerberos Error Related to SQL Server from MOSS

shawnfel — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:27:17 GMT

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)

Programmatically retrieve a list of the file extensions from the SSP Search Service

shawnfel — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:23:15 GMT

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)

Automating Report Deployment in Reporting Services in SharePoint Integration Mode Revisited

shawnfel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:55:32 GMT

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

shawnfel — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:02:00 GMT

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

shawnfel — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:24:00 GMT

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)

SharePoint, DOCTYPE, and Master Pages

shawnfel — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:28:00 GMT

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)

Reporting Services Support for Forms Authentication in SharePoint Integration Mode

shawnfel — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:27:00 GMT

Better late than never - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939942...(read more)

Quick Guide on how to install Reporting Services on its own server/cluster in SharePoint Integration Mode without using Kerberos

shawnfel — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:27:00 GMT

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)

Transparent Images in Reporting Services

shawnfel — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:25:00 GMT

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)