Paul Liebrand's Weblog

Adobe X was released at the end of last year and one of the feature points announced was “Native, seamless integration with Microsoft SharePoint”.  On the surface, everything appears to work correctly and solved one of the main issues with Adobe Acrobat with SharePoint I blogged about in the past. Recently discovered that it is [...]

We discovered a bug in SharePoint 2010 and the usage of the markup styles when you are editing a page. To reproduce this issue, follow these instructions: Create a new page Click Markup Styles and select Heading 1 Type “Test 1” and press enter Click Markup Styles and select Heading 2 Type “Test 2” and [...]

If you have used SharePoint 2007 and have moved to SharePoint 2010 you might have noticed that the toolbar is missing from the top of the asset picker. The user experience is horrible due to the fact that this toolbar is missing. A user needs to upload the image to the appropriate library first before [...]

Microsoft introduced the notion of Message Classification (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998599(EXCHG.80).aspx) in Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007. This allowed an organization to classify email and then generate transport rules that routed or manipulated those messages based on that classification. Out of the box, Microsoft provides a list of actions (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998315(EXCHG.80).aspx) that can be performed in a transport rule. [...]

I decided to create another blog that is dedicated to one of my hobbies – photography. Over the next few weeks I’ll be uploading some highlights from over the last few years that I have been doing it. Some of the photos I have upload so far include my adventures at some SharePoint conferences (featuring [...]

If you have ever done any threaded programming in .NET WinForms you have more than likely run into the following error message at some point:   InvalidOperationException was unhandled Cross-thread operation not valid: Control ‘’ accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on. This exception is normally displayed while running in [...]

We recently received the following error message when we attempted to build the cube within Project Server 2007: Failed to build the OLAP cubes. Error: Analysis Services session failed with the following error: Failed to connect to the Analysis Services server <server>. Error: ActiveX component can’t create object TechNet has an article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197608(office.12).aspx) on this [...]

In 2008 I made a post about the infamous “locked for editing” message many people experience while using Office with documents stored in SharePoint. This post addressed the issue that can occur outside the normal “locking” mechanism Office and SharePoint. I recently had a problem where I attempted to edit an Excel spreadsheet and I [...]

Devon and Christina’s wedding was the very first wedding I have ever been hired to shoot. As an aspiring photographer I was extremely nervous but they had the confidence in me to pull it off. Without a doubt, this was the most stressful photo shoot I have ever done but I think it all came [...]

I ran into an issue attempting to get Project Sever 2007 working with SQL Sever 2008 Analysis Services and thought I would create a post about it in case other people are experiencing the same issue. The first thing to note is the article on TechNet are written as if everything is installed on the [...]