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Jerry Orman

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My SharePoint Sites displays a link that you no longer have access to
Under My LInks, My SharePoint Sites, you see a link to a site, but when you click on the link, you are directed to the Access Denied page. It's possible, you may be running into this scenario: Sub site is setup to inherit permissions from the parent Users Read More...
Overview of My SharePoint Sites and how the data is populated
SharePoint gives you the ability to get a list of sites that your login account is explicitly a member of. This grouping of links is built on the server-side by the Profile Synchronization timer job that runs for each Web Application. The data is stored Read More...
SharePoint My Site link stops redirecting users to their Personal Site
Hopefully this can save someone some time. The symptoms are: Clicking the My Site link in a SharePoint site results in an IIS 404 File Not Found error page being returned. However, you are able to browse directly to the users My Site by browsing http://mysite/personal/user Read More...
Check if a Word doc is password protected prior to uploading it to a web site
I apologize for the delay between blogs. Switched jobs within Microsoft last December and moved from Texas to Southern California as part of that transfer. Needless to say, I've been insanely busy :-) Anyway...this was an interesting question I received Read More...
Loading C++ Assemblies in ASP.Net
When you reference a Native C++ assembly from ASP.Net you may run into the following error: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E) [FileNotFoundException: The specified module could Read More...
Referencing .js files for the AJAX Control Toolkit
I was recently working with someone that was leveraging the AJAX Extension and the Control Toolkit and they were running into an issue where a customer's environment was causing issues making requests to ScriptResource.axd. Since they couldn't change Read More...
JavaScript errors occur...only when the script is in a .js file
This was tricky to track down and hopefully the troubleshooting information will help you should you run into this type of error and can't track it down. Symptom When browsing a web application you receive the following JavaScript errors. JavaScript errors: Read More...
Fix: Random FileNotFoundException in ASP.Net 2.0 application
Issue - Random FileNotFoundException when browsing ASP.Net 2.0 application. An event similar to the following will be logged in the event viewer. The file name in the exception is typically different every time: Exception message: Could not load file Read More...
Getting real-time updates from remote process using the AJAX Extension
This sample was a result of an idea from Kent Post at Akamai. He was wanting to be able to launch a process on a remote server and get real-time updates in the browser. In this case, we focused on running WinPE scripts to build ISO's on the server. The Read More...
Viewstate error in mobile ASP.NET app
This is my third mobile post this week! This one was tricky to track down so hopefully this will save someone some time. The symptom you see is that users get the following exception. If you're using ASP.NET 2.0, we would log this to the Event Viewer Read More...
Determining what capabilities ASP.NET is using to render pages
When you make a request to an ASP.NET based site, the browser's capabilities are determined by the <browserCaps> section in the 1.x Framework and the .browser files in the 2.0 framework. Knowing which capabilites that ASP.NET is using to render Read More...
Mobile ASP.NET Emulators
When developing Mobile ASP.NET apps, it is useful to test the application across a variety of devices if the site is going to be posted to the internet. ASP.NET Mobile controls rely on adapters to handle rendering on the different devices. In order to Read More...
JavaScript Fun!
I was recently working with JavaScript and ran into some weird things I hadn't ran into before. While I'm sure the JavaScript masters of the world already know all about this stuff, hopefully this post can keep others from pulling out too much hair. The Read More...
Custom WebPart Catalog
Trying to catch back up on my blogging, I have a list of topics to post on, just haven't had time to get to them. I wrote this article over a month ago...figured I would link it up from here. The default web part catalogs that are shipped with ASP.Net Read More...
System.InvalidOperationException: Mutex could not be created.
We've seen a few of these issues come through lately andwanted to get something posted so people can find it. If you created a custom account to run the process that ASP.NET is running in, you may encounter the following exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Read More...
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